Brew & A: Indian Ocean Brewery
We’d originally planned to run this Brew & A with the head brewer at Indian Ocean Brewing this week as a precursor to WA Beer Week starting. Then we got the results of this year’s Perth Royal Beer…
Winners Out West
This year’s Perth Royal Beer Show has thrown up some eye-catching winners alongside the usual familiar faces. There will have been a heavily-laden plane heading back to Sydney too after New South Wales…
Feral's Fresh Facelift
It’s all change at one of Australia’s champion breweries as Feral undergoes a facelift. After the start of their occasional Brewpub series of limited bottled releases comes a new permanent beer, Sly…
Willy Fest Takes Shape
A couple of months ago, we caught up with Scott Meager, owner of the Steam Packet Inn in Williamstown. He’d just been given the green light to go ahead with a new beer festival in the Melbourne suburb…
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Competition: BEERtographers Wanted!
The organisers of the Great Australian Beer Festival have teamed up with Little Creatures for a competition that will seeing the winner take home $1500 and earn a permanent place at the soon-to-open Little…
James Halliday Article: Grain and Grape
This week sees us send our end of year review to James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine (yes, it’s barely even November, but these things require long lead times). With it is our second pick of 50…
Deadlines Approacheth
Deadlines for two of the biggest beer events in the world are fast approaching. Anyone wanting to enter their beers into the world’s biggest beer competition, the World Beer Cup in the US has just…
Beer Travel: London and the Great British Beer Festival
A few weeks ago, we ran a story on the “Gentleman’s Agreement” between Stone & Wood and London’s Camden Town Brewery. The two were to begin bringing each other’s beers into their respective markets,…
Rocking On
The first time we caught up with the guys behind Rocks Brewing at their spiritual home, Harts Pub, they talked excitedly about plans for their own brewery. While they hoped to open one in The Rocks, they…
Beer Travel: The 9th Australian Hotel Beer Festival
It’s been a big few days for craft beer in Sydney. On Saturday, the third Sydney Craft Beer Week kicked off while, preceding it by a day (or six years depending on how you look at it) was the 9th…
Two Brewers Abroad: The Great American Beer Festival
A few months ago, two WA brewers who are enjoying the adventure of a lifetime through the American craft beer industry featured in our Blog of the Month series. Steve Brockman (formerly of The Monk) and…
The Craft Press
With some of the most exciting new breweries in Australia calling New South Wales home and the small bar scene giving impetus to Sydney’s nascent craft beer scene, it would seem the sleeping giant…
Welcome To Brewsvegas
We love a bit of wordplay at The Crafty Pint, almost as much as we love awesome beer events. So imagine our delight when we received a phone call from the guys behind Brisbane’s marvellous The Scratch…
Brew & A: Young Henrys
Sydney Craft Beer Week is just days away, with its biggest, most varied and most exciting lineup of events yet. Among the local breweries taking part – and contributing some of the most varied and oddball…
From Woodend to Manila
Slowly but surely, Australian craft beer is beginning to make inroads overseas. In recent weeks, we’ve reported on Stone & Wood’s venture into the UK and the success enjoyed by the Australian Brewery…
Getting Blind With Crafty: Ambers and Reds
There was much change afoot for our latest Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel at the weekend. For a start, it featured an entirely new set of panellists. Each and every one of those who taken part in a previous…
Cans in Cairns
To those of us not born in Australia, the similarity between the pronunciation of the words “cans” and “Cairns” is far from obvious. So when we received a call a few weeks back from Cam Hines,…
Drinking In Style: Amber and Red Ales
In order to keep pace with the Crafty Pint Tasting Panel, this month's instalment of Drinking In Style takes a look at two styles named for their respective hues: amber and red. If only there were a green ale to complete a brewer's traffic light…
