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…
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Beer Food
One of the standout concepts from last year’s Sydney Craft Beer Week was Beer Mimics Food. The festival organisers invited a selection of chefs and writers to create beers inspired by their favourite…
Brew & A: Boatrocker Brewery
The Melbourne Festival kicks off today (Oct 11), heralding two weeks of arts events all over the city. Many of the best shows and gigs are taking place at the 1200 capacity Festival Hub that has been erected…
The Final Six!
After four weeks and hundreds of entries from all over the world, the competition for the World’s Best Beer Trip has been whittled down to a final six. Now it’s up to you, the public, to decide…
Crafty Tales 2: Boneyard
Earlier this year, we launched Crafty Tales, a series of short films looking at different aspects of the craft beer world. Created in conjunction with New McPherson, a Fitzroy-based video production agency,…
Competition: Raid Crafty's Beer Fridge
As first world problems go, the one we’re currently experiencing at Crafty Towers is likely to elicit precisely zero sympathy: we’ve run out of beer fridge space. Yep, despite the fact that…
All Together Now
It’s a Tuesday and I’m in the brewhouse at Eagle Bay Brewery looking down at a drain. "This is the Rolls Royce of brewery drainage," says Cowaramup Brewing’s’s Jeremy Good as Justin Fox, brewer…
The Latest Listings
It’s not that long since we posted our last roundup of new brewery and venue listings on The Crafty Pint. But it’s been long enough for us to add a few more. And, with another dozen or so lying…
Tassie Beer Lovers Unite!
Australia’s burgeoning love with beer weeks shows no sign of abating as today we can announce that, in just a few weeks' time, Hobart will host its first Beer Lovers Week. It will feature a series…
It's Time To Talk Hops
Of all the brewers to have played around with the new wave of Aussie hops, none has delved quite as deep as Ben Kraus at Bridge Road. With one of the country’s main hop farms, Rostrevor, just down the…
Rocking The Rocks
In just over three weeks time, one of Sydney’s iconic hotels will host its annual beer festival. And, while beer festivals seem to be ten a penny these days, this is one that – like the hotel…
Brew & A: The Australian Brewery
The chances are that more Aussies – and indeed more beer drinkers overseas – are going to be hearing and seeing more of the Australian Brewery in the future. Having started up in Sydney’s northwest…
Aussie Export
You could never accuse the team at the Australian Brewery of lacking courage. For a start, they opened their brewery in the deeply un-crafty suburb of Rouse Hill in Sydney’s northwest. Then, while everyone…
A Beer With Real Clout
A couple of weeks ago, Nail Brewing founder John Stallwood signed off an email: “PS Looking forward to beating Brendan in the SRBC.” It was a reference to the Sydney Royal Beer & Cider Show and his…
The Good Beer Showcase
Good beer never sleeps. It just keeps on keepin' on. It might be more than 250 days until Good Beer Week 2014 returns to Melbourne and Victoria, but for those who can’t wait that long there is salvation.…
