Blog of the Month: Beer Is Your Friend
From music webzine editor to newspaper journo to beer blogger – all the while becoming ever more fascinated with great beer – Glen Humphries has spent a life writing, with Beer Is Your Friend his beer…
Best Of British
Speak to those recently returned from Beervana trips to New Zealand and you’ll hear evidence that, for all its recent advances, the Australian craft beer industry still trails a little way behind our…
Summer In A Can
There are many factors to consider when deciding whether to put beer, especially craft beer, into a can. They might include the willingness of the market to embrace such a product, how a beer will present…
Drinking In Style: Imperial Stouts
In conjunction with our blind tasting of imperial stouts, we return to our resident beer scholar, Chris Brady, to find out more about the historic style that is embraced my growing number of Aussie brewers each winter.
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Back To The 'Rat
Victoria is set to be treated to a plethora of beer festivals over the coming months, as the seemingly insatiable appetite for mixing craft beer and live music sees the return of regional events on the…
James Halliday Article: Lock, Stock & Barrel
The latest edition of James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine has been dropping through the letterboxes of subscribers this week. It features an article we wrote on Farmhouse Ales (well, mostly Saisons)…
More Craftiness
Today’s addition of The Grifter Brewing Co to the collection of Aussie breweries and craft beer-supporting venues we’ve got featured on the site heralds what we hope will be a couple of weeks…
SCBW Program Is Live!
The program for the third Sydney Craft Beer Week is launched today. Featuring around 65 events at more than 40 venues, it can be viewed in full on the festival’s website. The eight day shindig runs…
Rebuilding The Temple
There was a collective gasp – and no little sadness – around the craft beer world when, earlier this year, word spread that Temple had gone into voluntary liquidation. The East Brunswick based brewery…
Royal Approval
Much has been made of the high profile chefs making appearances at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show. And with good reason too: if the local press didn’t run its six celebrity chef stories a…
Beer Festival Roundup
The festival calendar becomes busier by the week as the popularity of craft beer grows. We’ll do our best to ensure they’re all listed in our Events Diary but figured it wouldn’t hurt…
Festival Madness!
With summer peering distantly over the horizon, it seems that barely a week goes by without another beer festival or beer week being announced. It’s a sign that craft beer is gaining in popularity…
Getting Blind With Crafty: Imperial Stouts
So which beers came out on top in the biggest (in every way) Crafty Pint blind tasting to date? HOw did the Aussies fare against beers from the Old World. Read on to find out...
Ask Brewer Jayne: How to judge beers
This weekend is the occasion of the next Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel. We say “occasion” as it will feature Imperial Stouts and thus is the one causing the most ripples of excitement among panelists. Usually,…
Ask Brewer Jayne: Getting into the brewing industry
Way back in the distant mists of time (well, June), we announced that Jayne Lewis, co-founder of Two Birds Brewing, was joining The Crafty Pint as an occasional “agony aunt” for beer. She would take…
Beer Makes Pigs Smarter
Have a look at the photo above. In particular the billboard on the wall of Prahran Fish & Chips. What thoughts spring to mind? “Ooh, that’s silly – a pig wearing a tie and mortarboard” perhaps. Maybe:…
Gut Reaction
Last month, Matt Donelan put the St Peter’s Brewery he’d built – literally – from the ground up on the market. After 13 years brewing the likes of Cinnamon Girl and Killagh Stout for the Sydney…
Beer Travel: Beervana NZ 2013
The large contingent of Aussie beer lovers that made their way to Wellington’s superb annual Beervana festival last weekend should have just about shaken off the cobwebs by now. Among them was Tiffany…
