Pirate Life (CUB/Asahi) Brewer
Pirate Life Brewing’s story is one of the most remarkable in the contemporary Australian beer scene. It's a tale that began in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where two young brewers, Jack Cameron and Jared "Red" Proudfoot, met and honed their brewing skills through apprenticeships for BrewDog. Here, in…
Bright Brewery Brewer
No one should need an extra reason to visit Bright, a true four season destination in the Victorian High Country: winters perfect for snowsports; springs and autumns that explode with colour; year round adventure sports and gourmet food and wine trails. But if you did need another reason, the Bright…
GABS Festival Pack 2021 Beer
GABS might be over for another year, but the party lives on in the mixed packs they've put together for Dan Murphy's. It has to be said the six beers inside for 2021 are a pretty good microcosm of where the festival beers sit these days too, covering hops, haze, dessert, high ABVs and odd colours. Starting…
BentSpoke Brewing FreeWheeler Beer
BentSpoke Brewing certainly know a thing or two about brewing IPAs. If you asked the entire nation of craft beer drinkers, they’d probably tell you Crankshaft is their favourite IPA or beer in the country (and indeed they have, multiple times during the GABS Hottest 100). But if you asked The Crafty…
One Drop Vienna Lager, High Grade (with Dogma) & We Jammin' Beer
After a few weeks of themed releases, we’re going back to One Drop basics with a trio of incredibly disparate beer styles. One German classic, one collaboration IPA, and an amazingly viscous fruited sour. It’s a proverbial whiplash of extremes and that’s just the way we like it. **Vienna Lager**.…
TWØBAYS Brewing GFB Ginger Beer Beer
Welcome to the age of ginger beer. Sure, both the alcoholic and boozeless versions of ginger beer have long had a presence in Australia - Queensland we’re looking at you in particular - craft breweries appear to be approaching them with gusto. Take the most recent GABS Hottest 100, no less than six…
Noisy Minor ANZUS IPA (2023) Beer
The year is 2014. Noisy Minor ANZUS IPA catches your attention as it’s just placed in the top ten of the GABS Hottest 100. It’s not that easy to get hold of (unless you head up Tamborine Mountain), but it’s worth keeping an eye out for. It’s [a bangin’ IPA](https://craftypint.com/beer/3367/noisy-minor-anzus-ipa). The…
Dainton Hopf'n Juicy Beer
It seems pretty safe to say that of all the citrus in the land, blood orange is a house favourite at Dainton Beer. It’s the star of the brewery’s Blood Orange NEIPA, a beer that was originally a limited release in 2017, only to jump into the Dainton core range and enjoy a staying power in the GABS…
Beerfarm Royal Standard Beer
Beerfarm have been enjoying great success with the hazy, hoppy releases, not least Royal Haze which made the top 20 of the GABS Hottest 100 in 2020. They've gone bigger in booze than that flagship IPA, and with Royal Standard head in the other direction. It’s the Metricup brewer's entry into the sessionable…
BentSpoke & Yakima Chief Hops Hopwheeler IPA Beer
Given BentSpoke's flagship IPA, Crankshaft, holds the number one spot in the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers at time of writing and is just one of many highly-rated IPAs in the Canberra brewer's oeuvre, what happens when they team up with one of the world's leader growers of hops? The short answer…
Black Hops Super G.O.A.T Beer
When you release a hazy IPA called the Greatest Of All Time, how do you top it? For Black Hops, the answer is dialling up the booze and tropical flavours to create Super G.O.A.T. First brewed as a small taproom release right at the end of 2020, Black Hops let the beer roam a little wider for March 2021;…
Ballistic Beer Hawaiian Haze IPA Beer
Hawaiian Haze - now with more Hawaiian shirt! With their DDH pale ale coming in at number six in the 2020 GABS Hottest 100, Ballistic have listened to their adoring public and brought them more Hawaiian Haze, this time in IPA form. This double dry-hopped hazy has held onto Mosaic and Pacific hops…
GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2023: Analysis News
The nation's beer lovers have spoken and Mountain Culture Status Quo sits atop the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2023, with Balter XPA and BentSpoke Crankshaft completing the podium. A total of 1,877 beers from 436 brewing companies were entered into the poll, with 63 of them featuring in the…
Mountain Culture Storm The GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers Of 2022 News
We have a new winner in the GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers poll for 2022, with Mountain Culture achieving a staggering result and blasting straight into top spot. Their Status Quo pale ale became the first beer to debut at number one, pipping Balter's XPA, champion in 2017 and 2018, and with BentSpoke's…
Mountain Culture Status Quo Wins GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2023 News
The polling is long closed, the votes counted, and of the 1,877 beers to receive votes from the 400-plus breweries that entered the GABS Hottest 100 of 2023, Mountain Culture Status Quo Pale Ale has landed in top spot for a second year running. The Blue Mountains-based brewing company debuted in top…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers Of 2020: The Table News
If it's just cold hard numbers you're after – stats be damned – then here's the rundown from one to 100 in the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers Of 2020. Thanks to Jessie at Craft Instinct for the pastoral journey from the depths of 2020 to what we hope will be brighter times for everyone in 2021…
Hottest 100 Craft Beers Of 2022: Analysis News
There we have it: Mountain Culture have delivered arguably the biggest tale in the 15 year history of the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll with their Status Quo debuting at number one, the first beer to do so. You can read our results article here. Outside the top spot, at first glance…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers Of 2019: The Countdown News
The countdown for the twelfth GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers is done and dusted and Stone & Wood Pacific Ale is back on top. A record 35,500 people cast votes for their favourite five beers in what's grown into the biggest people's choice vote in the country. Congratulations to Stone & Wood,…
Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers Of 2019: Results & Analysis News
Upper Hutt’s finest export has done it again. Panhead’s flagship Supercharger American pale ale has taken out the number one spot in the GABS Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers poll for 2019, the third time in four years that the orange one has finished top of the pile. There’s a fairly familiar…
Hottest 100 Of 2020: The Countdown News
So, there you have it: a new winner in the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers as BentSpoke finally make the upgrade from bridesmaid to bride. Their flagship Crankshaft IPA moved ahead of the winners of the past five polls as Stone & Wood Pacific Ale moved to second, with Balter XPA in third in another…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2016: First-Timers News
The 2016 GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll saw nine brewing companies appear in the list for the first time. As with the previous year's poll, rather than speak to familiar faces filling the top spots, we decided to chat to three of those making an appearance in the top 100 for the first time. This…
Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers of 2016 – Analysis News
Somewhat fittingly, it is the orange one that ended up winning. When travelling around New Zealand in the middle of 2016, in the months shortly before Panhead Custom Ales ceded its ownership to Lion, you couldn't help but notice the prominence and popularity of Supercharger, the Upper Hutt brewery’s…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2017: Infographic News
The results of the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2017 are in, which means it's time for the annual Crafty Pint Infographic. Below, you'll find some of the fun and interesting stats we picked out from the top 100 beers plus evolving trends over the years. For the full results, head to this…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2017: Analysis News
It only takes the briefest of glances down the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2017 list for a few stories to leap out at you: the new number one, the utter domination of hops – particularly in the top ten – and so on. But drill down a little deeper and look at how the list has evolved…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers Of 2018: Infographic News
The results of the eleventh GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll are out and it's the same one-two-three-four as last time around. But there's been plenty of change too and here we look to make sense of it all in visual form in our annual Hottest 100 Infographic. Thanks to Jessie at Craft…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers Of 2019: Infographic News
With the results of the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2019 now revealed, it's time to unveil our graphic designer's favourite job of the year: our annual GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers Infographic. We've added some new sections this year and are heading into outer space. Thanks to…
Vote For The Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers News
It's time for you, Australia's beer lovers, to cast your votes for the best homegrown craft beers of the past year. This year's GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers is the ninth time the poll has been run since 2008 and there's never been more beers or breweries from which to choose your…
Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers of 2016 – The Results News
Congratulations to Panhead, with Supercharger taking out top spot in the first GABS Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers poll. The orange one is one of six beers from the Upper Hutt brewery to make the 100, although the brewery with most in the list is Garage Project with a quite phenomenal 19, including five…
Deadline Looming For Hottest 100 Voting News
Time is running out to vote for your favourite Australian craft beers of 2016 in the GABS Hottest 100 poll. Already, more votes have been cast than ever before. If you've yet to pick your top five, you've got until midnight on January 20, 2017, to get involved. You can enter your votes in the form…
Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2017: The Results News
We have a new number one! After two years in the hottest of hot seats, Stone & Wood Pacific Ale has stepped aside and Balter XPA, brewed just a short drive up the coast, has taken top spot after debuting at number four last year. It's yet another triumph for the Gold Coast brewery that launched with…
Hottest 100 Kiwi Beers Of 2017: The Results News
The results of the second GABS Hottest 100 Kiwi Beers poll are in and Panhead has made it two for two with Supercharger APA holding onto top spot. There was movement elsewhere on the podium, however, with Garage Project's now retired Death From Above taking a posthumous bow in second, joined by…
BentSpoke Top The GABS H100 Again News
BentSpoke have gone back-to-back in the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll, with their Crankshaft IPA holding onto top spot in the 2021 countdown. The Canberra brewery's flagship beer finished ahead of the perennially popular former winner Balter XPA – and was one of five BentSpoke beers to make…
