Young Henrys & Collective Arts Rye IPA Beer
For this year’s Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival, Canadian brewery Collective Arts brewed collaboration beers with six breweries, and this Rye IPA brewed with Young Henry is Sydney’s contribution. In a sea of juicy IPAs, this beer is a drop of resin; the syrupy body brings West Coast flavours, along…
Moo Brew Seasonal Stout 2013 Beer
On a tour of Moo's brewery just before it became operational, head brewer OJ was at his most animated when showing off the waste water treatment system. This isn't to say he has any unpleasant foibles, more that he's a real technician when it comes to brewing, someone fascinated by the finest of details…
Aussie Beer Blogs: New South Ales News
In the worlds of literature and serious journalism, the use of puns tends to be frowned upon, if not outright forbidden. Yet in the beer world, whether it's beer or brewery names or beer writing, you'll find them welcomed and, for the most part, positively encouraged. We're certainly not afraid to head…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Schoonerversity News
When it comes down to it, for all the experimentation, history, science, artistry and so on that goes into making the beer world so fun and fascinating, it is, at the end of the day, all centred around a liquid that can make us feel pleasure. And that's pretty much the sole reason Mick Wust decided…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Little Hop Beers News
The title of this article may be a little misleading as the latest person to appear in our featured beer blogs series isn't an Aussie. Hannah Louise Grugel is a Brit who started writing about beer in the UK and has continued with her Little Hop Beers blog since landing in Sydney last year. Here she…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Sydney Beer News
More than 18 months ago, a British expat not long arrived in Sydney got in touch with The Crafty Pint's main Sydney writer. Tim Hodge was launching a new beer site he'd built from the ground up. It was called Sydney Beer and was conceived with the intention of telling people about and commenting on…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Brews & Bacon News
Once upon a time, we used to shine a spotlight on Aussie beer blogs pretty much monthly. The slot was called, rather innovatively, "Blog of the Month". Given it's almost two years since we last ran one, we feel the title has somewhat lost its relevance. But Aussie beer blogs continue to come and go so…
Aussie Beer Blogs: The Craft Beer King News
A slightly different entry into our Aussie Beer Blogs series here. Regular readers of the site will already be familiar with Matt King as he has been providing most of our coverage of the beer scene in South Australia for the past few years. Recently, he launched (or, technically, relaunched) his…
Aussie Beer Blogs: The Year of Beer News
Sometimes it's best to keep things simple. And that's a reasonable way to describe the idea that got Tim Smith into writing about beer. A fairly recent convert to the world of craft beer, the Port Macquarie resident decided to make his exploration of the wider beer world something of a challenge: a…
Aussie Beer Blogs: offthetap News
He loves beer. He loves travel. And he loves to hunt down new beers when he travels. So, following a suggestion from a mate in the pub, Matt Johnson decided to start capturing his passions via another one: photography, creating offthetap and attracting Instagram followers in the thousands. He…
Aussie Beer Blogs: The Beer Healer News
In the middle of 2015, we received an email from a chap in Hobart asking for advice as he embarked on starting a beer blog. Chris Lukianenko had just left a job in marketing for Lion but was keen not to lose touch with the beer world for which he had so much passion. Thus he launched The Beer Healer,…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Brewed, Crude & Bitter News
It's time to shine a spotlight on another Aussie beer blog: a transglobal double header, no less (well, sorta). Brewed, Crude & Bitter was started by two mates, Judd Owen (above left and right) and Brad Gellert when they both inhabited Brisbane's beer scene but has since spread its…
Aussie Beer Blogs: What's Mashing WA News
Having resurrected our focus on Australian beer bloggers last month with Brisbane-based Brews and Bacon, we're switching our gaze to the west. What's Mashing WA is a blog that focuses predominantly on the state's beer scene: its beers, brewers, events and venues. It's written by home brewing Jono Outred…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Food Grog Blog News
It was only supposed to be a means of sharing recipes with his mates, but his report on a beer filled trip to Wellington saw one Brisbane beer geek's blog become morph into something else entirely. A year on from its launch, we ask Jamie Brocket to tell us all about Food Grog Blog. Name: Jamie…
Aussie Exports: Craig Thorn of BAOS News
Our Aussie Export series usually focuses on Australians who run or work for breweries overseas. But there are many more facets to the global beer community. For one, there's the thriving beer media and, even within that field, there's much diversity and variety to be found. Outside more traditional…
Beer Is Your Friend News
Glen Humphries occupies a rare position. And not because he's one of just three winners of the Australian International Beer Awards Beer Media trophy to date. It's because he writes a regular newspaper column on beer. Despite the phenomenal growth of craft beer in Australia in recent years…
The Big Issue: Weird Beers News
Belly button fluff. Whale vomit. Carrots. Not three things you'd expect to see in a sentence together. Or, indeed, in a beer. Yet, in the past couple of years, it's beers featuring those ingredients that have garnered media attention across the world – far more than pretty much any other beers released…
Crafty Crawls: Freo Beer-Ho! News
Footy aside, few Australian towns can boast as loudly as Fremantle. The historic port city was named in Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Destinations to Visit in 2016, Perth’s economic boom did nothing to dent its rustic charm (which really comes into its own under grey skies) and it famously kickstarted…
Our Man In NZ: Liberty Brewing News
Liberty Brewing Company is one of the brightest stars in the New Zealand beer scene, earning a cult following thanks to beers like Prohibition Porter and C!tra. Demand is high on both sides of the Tasman Sea, with the decision to start brewing some Liberty beers at Hawkers in Melbourne for the Australian…
Ten Years Of Crafty: Beer In The Media News
In part six (or seven, depending how you're counting) of our look back at the decade in beer since The Crafty Pint launched, we turn our focus onto the medium in which we operate: media. How has the way people write, talk and discuss beer changed? And how has the way in which we consume information…
Drinking In Style: IPA News
Before we publish the results of part two of our IPA blind tasting, our Resident Beer Scholar, Chris Brady, returns with another of his journeys back in time. Here, he goes back to the earliest days of the India pale ale styles, busts a few myths and finishes up back in the present day, where hop…
Marking Ten Years Of The Best Beer Media News
Entries for the 2024 Australian International Beer Awards close on Friday (March 8). Alongside the brewery and beer trophies, this year will see the Best Media trophy awarded for a tenth time. Anyone covering beer in any form of media – online, in print, radio, TV, blogging, podcasting, on YouTube…
