Making Cents
It’s amazing what you can find down the back of the sofa. And even more amazing what you can find when you set fire to a sofa! A couple of years back, three mates who had been homebrewing together since…
Beer Travel: Great Australian Beer Festival, Geelong
Victoria’s summer of beer festivals continued at the weekend with the arrival of the inaugural Great Australian Beer Festival. Taking over much of the Geelong Racecourse, it brought together brewers…
A Taste of Italy
The past year has seen a huge rise in the amount of Italian craft beer arriving in Australia. Where once there was just a handful of the country’s better beers available, since the team at Birra Italiana…
Brewer Exchange
Earlier this month, the Aurora Borealis arrived Down Under. At the same time, the Aurora Australis landed in Norway. The two are beers created on either side of the globe as part of a joint venture between…
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Green Beacon Fires Up
With floodwaters rising, there wasn’t much in the way of good news coming out of Queensland last week. But in a corner of Teneriffe, the situation was a whole lot brighter as the Australian craft beer…
Clear As Mud?
On Friday afternoon, while most of us were preparing for the long Australia Day weekend, one man found himself unwittingly in something of a funk. The cause of said funk was an email that had landed in…
H100 of 2012 Countdown
So who will be raising their glass the highest this Australia Day? Will Brad, Jamie, Ross and their ever-expanding team at Stone & Wood make it two in a row for their all-conquering Pacific Ale? Can…
Hop Hog Is Hottest!
Phew! We don’t have to eat our hat after all… A couple of weeks back, as votes were coming in for this year’s Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2012, we responded to a tweet with something along…
The Hottest 100 of 2012 Analysed
By now, you’ll have had time to take in the latest Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll results. Congratulations to everyone that featured, in particular the team at Swan Valley’s Feral Brewing for…
Going with the Grain
Newcastle punches above its weight when it comes to providing the Australian craft beer world with quality brewers. There’s Shawn Sherlock at Murray’s, Keith Grice at nearby Potters in the Hunter Valley,…
Best Of The South West
It is said that we are a little "backwards" here in Western Australia; sometimes it’s said by our East Coast neighbours and sometimes we say it about ourselves. It’s a hard title to argue since…
Beer Travel: Ballarat Beer Festival 2013
It’s always a good sign when something surprises even the people that are responsible for creating it. And that was the case last year when the inaugural Ballarat Beer Festival attracted such large…
It's In The Can
Craft beer drinkers are all too aware that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. The path to discovering better beer is intrinsically linked with an understanding, or at the very least an appreciation,…
Holgate Takes Flight
Back in the 1990s, as a teenager immersed in the UK’s indie scene, The Crafty Pint was a fan of the short-lived, pun heavy London band Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. Front man Jim Bob had an uncanny…
Good Beer Week Deadline
Anyone taking part in this year’s Good Beer Week in May has until midnight tomorrow (January 18) to finalise their event details. A number of events were registered prior to Christmas with some aspects…
The Hottests' Hottest
Time is running out for this year’s Hottest 100 Aussie craft beers, being run again by The Local Taphouse, The Crafty Pint and Brews News. The deadline for votes is January 15. As in past years, The…
James Halliday Article: The Year In Beer 2012
Upon launching in 2011, James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine asked The Crafty Pint to pen an article on the story of Australian craft beer. Since then, they’ve continued to support the local craft…
Cheers to Geelong
For a long time, it always seemed something of an anomaly that Geelong, just a few kilometres down the road from the craft beer hotbed that is Melbourne, was such a craft beer desert. A few micros had…
