behind bars

Behind Bars: Mongrel

Behind Bars: Mongrel

If you're into skeletons, sour cocktails and sausage daddies – or, at least, if they don't scare you off – then Mongrel's brand of weirdness is for you. We chatted with the pint-pouring pooches at the Milton bar for our Behind Bars series.

May 29, 2023 by Mick Wust


Behind Bars: Miles Hull

March 1, 2022 by Guy Southern

It's more than two decades since Miles Hull was brought in as GM of a new brewery in Freo called Little Creatures. With his latest hospo venture, Ruinbar, now open in Perth, we sat down for a chat about the evolving beer scene.


Behind Bars: Wilbury & Sons

January 25, 2022 by Crafty Pint

Prahran and Moorabbin aren't the first suburbs that come to mind when you think Melbourne craft beer. Yet Byron Barrowclough has been working to broaden tastes in both. We had a chat with him as his latest bar, Wilbury & Sons, turns one.


Behind Bars: The TapHouse Townsville

April 1, 2021 by Samuel Laffy

Some thought they'd have to put Great Northern on to survive. Nine hundred craft beers through their taps later, it looks like the TapHouse Townsville crew backed the right horse after all.


Behind Bars: Oldfield Cellars

March 12, 2021 by Crafty Pint

Behind Bars is where we get in touch with retailers across Australia to find out what's hot with them and their customers, and get their insight on the evolving beer world. Here we chat to Central Coast legends Oldfield Cellars.


Behind Bars: Harts Pub At Ten

January 21, 2020 by Mick Wust

Inside a 130-year-old building in The Rocks, Harts Pub is a ten-year-old bar that's won the gratitude of Sydney beer drinkers and Australian independent breweries alike as one of the city's earliest adopters of craft beer.


Behind Bars: Beer Cartel At Ten

November 28, 2019 by Mick Wust

What started as two guys hand-packing boxes of beer to put in the mail has grown into one of Australia's largest online beer retailers. It's fair to say Beer Cartel have come a long way in ten years.


Behind Bars: East of Everything & Rosalita's

October 22, 2019 by Will Ziebell

Gen and Michael Cotter started bringing good booze to Melbourne's eastern suburbs a decade and a half ago. As they prepare to open Rosalita's – a third venue in the same building – we caught up with the team.


Behind Bars: Copper & Oak

August 15, 2019 by Guy Southern

The brothers behind Copper & Oak have been selling booze to the people of Perth for more than 15 years. Guy Southern called in for a chat to see what they make of the fast-changing beer scene that surrounds them.


Behind Bars: Big Ears

July 11, 2019 by Will Ziebell

Big Ears is one of the bars working hard to bring better beer - along with tasty meatballs - to the people of Geelong. Ainsley Killingback is chief beer proselytist and here tells us about Geelong's crafty credentials.

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