Beer Travel: The Noisy Minor Shout 2014
OK, so we’re not 100 percent sure if what follows counts as beer travel. But there was a bus involved, there was beer and people moved around… The event in question was the second Noisy Minor…
The Rivers Overrunneth
Little Rivers is the first new brewery to open in Tasmania in a few years. Located in the state's beautiful northeast, it's headed by a former winemaker who learned the brewing trade at Burleigh Brewing on the Gold Coast.
Beyond Craft...
Had enough of craft beer? Then how about cult beer? Clearly, the owners of a new bar in Melbourne feel it’s time to take things a little further, with Two Row announcing itself as a home for “cult…
King Henrys
While they may not have enjoyed Australia’s brand of cricket, it seems that the Brits rather like Australian beer. Hot on the heels of the success of Redoak, Hawthorn and 4 Pines at last year’s International…
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Nail On Tap
WA’s Nail Brewing has been at the forefront of the state’s craft beer industry for well over a decade now. Its founder, John Stallwood (pictured above), has also been instrumental in the rise of the…
Getting Noisier
One of Queensland’s newest brewing companies, Fortitude, celebrated its first birthday this month with its second annual Noisy Minor Shout, which saw the brewing team take invited guests on the tour…
The Happiest Decade
It began as a student teacher’s hunt for cheap jugs of beer in Melbourne, graduated to a simple online spreadsheet, slowly spread its tentacles across Australia, now also comes as an app with 75,000…
A Healthy Harvest
Even before the first beers produced with this year’s Bushy Park hops have arrived, it’s looking like a successful harvest for Hop Products Australia. An auction of the first 100kg bale of this year’s…
Craft Brewers Conference '14
The man who brewed the very first craft beer in Australia, founded the original Matilda Bay and was a founder of Little Creatures (as well as building BridgePort in the US) will give a keynote speech at…
Frankenstein of Bickley
Bottleshops with growler filling stations are wonderful things, and not just because they allow us to drink fresh, draught beer in the comfort of our own homes. They also offer an extra point of sale for…
Good Beer Week '14 Is Go!
Tickets are now on sale for Australia’s leading celebration of the best of the local and international beer world. The official program for Good Beer Week 2014 went live this morning. The fourth…
Fill Yer Boots
It takes little more than a cursory glance around the room at an industry event – or perhaps a quick game of "count the beards" – to realise the beer world is rather dominated by males. But, ever so…
150 Great Australian Beers: Your Guide to Craft Beer and Beyond
Crafty Pint founder James Smith has written a book on Australian beer. 150 Great Australian Beers: Your Guide to Craft Beer and Beyond is published by Hardie Grant and will be on shelves at good book…
The Circle Of Hops
The sense of community within the craft beer world, both in Australia and elsewhere, is one of its most remarkable aspects. There is a willingness among businesses within the industry to share knowledge…
Going Public
Almost a year ago to the day, we were sent a tweet from someone who had spotted a sign on the wall of a warehouse in Croydon. The sign read “The Public Brewery” and led to a few responses hoping that…
The 17
The addition of Barossa Valley Brewing, Cromer Cellars and Embassy Craft Beer Bar to The Crafty Pint’s directories of craft beer awesomeness in the past few days suggest it’s time we did another…
Turning Japanese
One of a growing number of new brewing companies to hit the ground running in Australia in the past 12 months was Melbourne-based Monster Mash. The beery wing of the enterprise that had previously launched…
Craft Beer Rising 2014
The first Craft Beer Rising is a wrap. And, if the feedback we’ve received directly and the noise on social media at the weekend is anything to go by, it seems the idea was embraced far and wide.…
