Ask Brewer Jayne: Choosing What To Brew
It’s time to welcome back our occasional series featuring the “Agony Aunt of Aussie craft” Jayne Lewis. To the handful of people that haven’t come across Jayne or her wares (just…
From Siberia With Love
The seeds for the most unique new addition to Melbourne’s craft beer scene were first sown 11 years ago on the Gold Coast. Eighteen-year-old Anton Sagan, not long arrived in Australia from Siberia, was…
Brewing Like Berserk
Ekim founder Mike Jorgensen is reeling off the beers he brews: After Battle Pale Ale; Viking IPA; Berserker Amber IPA; Hell Black IPA. “It’s fair to say you’re a brewer who likes hops then.” “I…
Getting Blind With Crafty: Golden & Summer Ales
With summer upon us, it seemed only right to have a look at the quaffable end of the ale world for our latest Blind Tasting. That said, the choice of style (in a fairly loose sense) wasn’t met with unanimous…
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Drinking In Style: Golden Ales
With summer approaching, we decided to look at the lighter end of the beer spectrum for our next Blind Tasting. As such, we opted for a rather loose collection of beers that fall under the Golden / Summer…
Rise Of The Beer Fest
The beer festival scene is booming in Australia. In a few short years, we’ve gone from next to no dedicated beer festivals to an absolute smorgasbord, with more being added every year. From November…
Beer Travel: Beer Lovers Week & The Tasmanian International Beerfest 2013
There was quite the choice for beer lovers this November when it came to beer events. There were concurrent beer weeks in Canberra, WA and Hobart plus the Beer Day Out, Beers By The Bay, Fremantle Beerfest…
Anyone For Cricket?
Earlier this year Asahi Premium Beverages, formerly known as Independent Distillers, bought the Cricketers Arms Lager brand and it became the basis for an attempt to enter the growing craft beer market.…
Festive Excess
Perhaps it’s only right that, as we approach the time of year when people tend to overindulge, we find ourselves amid a glut of festive occasions. Or festivals to be precise. We’ve got three…
Competition: Win A Taste Of The Tropics
The Australian beer industry is a colourful place. There are brewers inspired by the traditional beers of Germany, Belgium and the UK. There are others taking their lead from the States. There are those…
GABS Wants Brew!
It might be six months away, but already the biggest week for craft beer in the Australian calendar is taking shape. Good Beer Week submissions are closed and being shaped into a nine-day bonanza and now…
Blowing Minds
“This is blowing my mind,” says a guy at one table. “Mate, this is mind-blowing,” says another at a table across the room. Two beers into the first public Crafty Pint Blind Tasting event and…
Beer Travel: The Fremantle BeerFest
The curtain has just come down on this year’s WA Beer Week, having risen with the inaugural Fremantle BeerFest on the opening weekend. Pia Poynton, AKA girlplusbeer and also recent recipient of the…
Brew & A: Ironhouse Brewery
The first ever Hobart Beer Lovers Week is up and running and in just over 24 hours the Tasmanian International Beerfest returns to the city’s waterfront. So we figured it was as good a time as any to…
Deadline Day
Tomorrow is deadline day for anyone wanting to take part in either Newcastle Craft Beer Week or Good Beer Week in 2014. For those planning to run events in Newcastle, it’s your last chance to submit…
Back In Black
With its second birthday fast approaching (and a Bolivian band lined up to mark the occasion…), what was one of Australia’s tiniest breweries has started cranking beers out of a shiny new Italian…
Treading Gingerly
A Sydney brewery has been taken by surprise by international “upset” inadvertently caused by one of its labels. The label for 4 Pines offshoot Brookvale Union’s Ginger Beer, which was only released…
Something Big's Brewing
It started more than a decade ago with the ultimate man’s cave. But, finally, after years of hard work, the brewing dream shared by Jason Harris and Craig Basford is set to become a reality. "We began…
