Smiles From Beer To Beer
There are many ways of starting a new business. You can spend years carefully plotting every step, drawing up reams of business plans, running projections through computers, seeking advice from far and…
The Cask Bar's Calling
Here at Crafty Towers, we love a good pun. Or a bad pun, if we’re perfectly honest. We love real ales too, what with the site’s founder being born in Burton-upon-Trent, home of the pale ale,…
Show Us Yer Bottles
Time for a shout out. As readers of our weekly newsletter will be aware, The Crafty Pint’s founder has been commissioned to write a book on Aussie beer for the publishers of James Halliday’s…
Change Must Come
As the Alabama 3 made abundantly clear in the world’s finest ever Country ‘n’ Western, pro-Communism, techno banger, Mao Tse Tung Said: “Change must come through the barrel of a…
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Walking The Walk
“We’ve talked the talk. Now it’s time to walk the walk,” says Jade Flavell as we discuss plans for her forthcoming brewery. It’s a fair point. When any brewery opens people will have high hopes…
Craft Beer Rising is Go!
Registrations are NOW OPEN for anyone wishing to hold an event on our forthcoming national day in celebration of Australian craft beer. On February 22, 2014, The Crafty Pint is inviting brewers, venues,…
Crafty's 50 Of 2013
There’s not long to go now until voting closes for the Hottest 100 Craft Beers of 2013. The deadline for the sixth annual poll run by The Local Taphouses and supported by The Crafty Pint and Brews…
The Monks Of Margs
Walking into the brewhouse at Colonial Brewing in Margaret River there is an unmistakably familiar atmosphere, one that is probably unique considering it’s a relatively new brewing team. Paul Wyman (above…
The Year in Beer 2013: Victoria and Western Australia
For our final look back at the year that was we posed questions to some faces old and new in the country’s two craft beer big hitters, Victoria and WA (although NSW is coming up fast on the rails…). Among…
2014: Shit's Gettin' Real
The first day of the year is always one for looking forward with hope and in high spirits (tempered only slightly by the dustiness that comes with seeing out the previous one with two bottles of Auld Bulgin'…
The Year in Beer 2013: New South Wales & South Australia
The second of our end of year roundups heads to New South Wales and South Australia, where the thoughts and hopes of Crafty Pint’s men in each state are joined by those of the folks behind Newcastle’s…
The Year in Beer 2013: Queensland & Tasmania
It’s been another huge year for craft beer in Australia. But you don’t need us to tell you that – we do it pretty much incessantly day in, day out. So, as in previous years, we thought we’d invite…
Craft Beer Rising!
Who fancies making a load of noise about our wonderful homegrown beer industry? If you’re a reader of The Crafty Pint, the chances are you do. And if you’re a subscriber to our weekly newsletter…
Calling All Beer Media
People have been writing about beer in Australia almost as long as there has been brewing in Australia. But the rise of craft beer and the advent of the internet and its potential for writers to reach…
H100 Craft Beers of 2013
Australia’s longest-running people’s vote for the best craft beers of the year is back for a sixth time. The Hottest 100 Australian Craft Beers of 2013 poll opens today, with beer lovers able…
Best Of The Batch
When Santa skimmed over this year's naughty and nice list – moving swiftly past Lance Armstrong, the global intelligence community and the entire roster of the Essendon football club – he evidently…
Hey, We're The Monkeys
It's not every Sunday that you get to sit down and talk to a pair of monkeys but that's exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago. Alex Poulsen and Ross Terlick are the two new brewers at Cheeky Monkey,…
Getting Blind With Crafty: Christmas Ales
“All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth. All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth…” Or in the case of a Christmas blind tasting, how about a classic coming out on top (to prove…
