Good Beer Week: Going, Going, Gone
The first event to sell out for this year’s Good Beer Week was gone in less than 12 hours. Others have been following with regularity ever since. So, as one of the festival’s media partners,…
ARE YOU READY!!!!!
The wait is almost over – the third Good Beer Week kicks off in less than 24 hours. The Crafty Pint will be there at 8.30am tomorrow morning for the start of the very first event, The Big Apple &…
The Bicep's Back
It started as a bit of fun. Challenged with brewing an unusual beer for the Media Brew beer competition at Beervana, The Crafty Pint approached Murray’s to be its partner. They agreed and were soon afterwards…
Get Ready for Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Kiwi Invasion
New Zealand has a craft beer scene that sparked into life earlier than ours and, dare we say it, has a greater strength in depth than Australia (for now at least). We’ve been lucky enough to have…
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Getting Blind With Crafty: Pint of Origin Pale-Off
The latest Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel was one with a touch of Good Beer Week about it. With the festival imminent – and amongst its attractions the expanded Pint of Origin state-by-state showcase…
Up For GABS
Where do you go after scaling up an event you’d previously run for a few hundred people at your pubs to an epic featuring almost 60 brand new beers in a heritage listed building that attracted around…
Statement On Temple's Liquidation
A little over a week ago, word reached The Crafty Pint that Temple Brewery & Brasserie had gone into voluntary liquidation. This sad news was leavened by a conversation with one of the owners who assured…
Drinking in Style: American Pale Ales
With Good Beer Week imminent, we figured we should do a Pint of Origin style face-off for the next Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel. So later today, the motley crew of brewers (amateur and professional),…
Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brews: Rockstars!
Sometimes you just know you should probably have said no to the question: “Just one more?” But sometimes inspiration can strike… It was late in the evening at last year’s Newcastle…
Good Beer Wheaty
“Blame the Yeastie Boys!” Could this be the craft beer world’s equivalent of the Monopoly “Get Out Of Jail Free” card? Certainly, it’s a cry we expect to hear a lot…
Brew Oyster Cult
The Crafty Pint has only been around for 30 months, yet in that time we’ve seen one of Australia’s craft beer characters crop up in a number of guises. Steve “Hendo” Henderson once landed at Prickly…
Crafty Pint Merchandise
To celebrate the release of the first beer conceived by The Crafty Pint – the Auld Bulgin' Boysterous Bicep brewed in collaboration with Murray’s – we finally got our act together and created…
Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brews: The Big City Smackdown!
As we all know, the craft beer world is one warm, fuzzy, all-embracing bear hug of a thing. Everyone loves everyone else. We’re all united in our mission to create a better Earth for our children…
Hand Carved Stone
With distinguished titles like Chief Judge of the Australian International Beer Awards, Chairman of the Craft Beer Industry Association and Head Brewer at Stone & Wood, you might think Brad Rogers spends…
New, Improved Crafty
Just like the very best hair products and cleansing powders for your washing machine, changes to anything should be incremental. At least that’s what we’re telling ourselves here at Crafty…
Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Bodebrown
The third Good Beer Week has brewers travelling to Australia from Europe, Japan, New Zealand and North and South America. The representatives from the last of these are from Bodebrown in Brazil, who won…
Milling Vanilla
Every year for the past three years, female representatives of the Victoria brewing industry have gathered to make a special beer. And this year they’re brewing it for Good Beer Week. They come from…
Starting a Brewery: The Boatrocker Story Pt IV
Well, we were expecting to be running this article well before now – as the owners of Boatrocker Brewery would have been, no doubt. But, as seems to be the way with even the best planned brewery, it…
