Beer DeLuxe Venue
As the name suggests, this bar in the heart of Melbourne’s Federation Square has always offered solace for the beer aficionado. But it really started to come into its own as a craft beer destination since the end of 2008. Where once there were four beers on tap, there became nine, then more than a…
Henley's Bar & Kitchen Venue
In a district as buzzing and diverse as Darling Harbour, venues need to offer a serious array of goodies to get tourists, commuters and locals through the door. With an extensive drinks list, upmarket menu, and prime harbour position, Henley’s Bar & Kitchen manages that particular task with mouth-watering…
Terminus Hotel Venue
It wasn’t too long ago that Fitzroy North’s Terminus was still operating as a hotel, the sort of hotel where the long-term residents living upstairs wouldn’t think twice about shuffling into the bar in dressing gown and slippers for a few pots of Draught. What a difference a change of ownership…
The Winston VenueBottleshop
What do you do if your local doesn't serve good beer? You could travel a bit further and hunt down a bar that does. Or you could do what Kris and Caroline Miles did: take over said local and make it awesome. The local in question is The Winston in North Hobart, the pub just around the corner from where…
Bridge Road & Beer DeLuxe Little REDemption IPA Beer
We're coming to suspect that Ben Kraus and his team at Bridge Road are operating a series of hidden underground breweries as well as the one that you can see when you visit their Beechworth home. How else to explain the fact that we seem to list plenty of new releases from them (not to mention the regulars…
Bridge Road Brewers Mayday Hills Jam & Yuzu Beer
The Bridge Road brewing team continues to plunder the bounty of its local region for the Mayday Hills series, with JimJam Foods and Mountain Yuzu the latest co-conspirators welcomed aboard. The former provided strawberry jam, which was added to a light farmhouse ale that had been fermented with Brettanomyces…
Hargreaves Hill / Deschutes Hopburst IPA Beer
His predecessor in the head brewer role always professed to a love of black beers (and wasted little time knocking one out at his new home), but the new occupant of the role at Hargreaves Hill seems to have quite the affinity with hops. Since moving across the Yarra Valley from White Rabbit earlier this…
Moon Dog Lando Kardashian Beer
As hybrids go, the fusing of Star Wars' Lando Calrissian with one of modern TV's most potent symbols of an impending apocalypse is pretty unusual; adding what appears to be a Wookiee's hand and a rubber glove to the label of the beer bearing said name adds further confusion. Yet the style for Moon Dog's…
Boatrocker & Beer DeLuxe Summer in Bruges Beer
Following in the footsteps of last years' Splice of Heaven with Moon Dog and the tasty red IPA they conceived with Bridge Road, the staff at Beer DeLuxe continue to have the pick of Victoria's top breweries for their occasional collaborations, with their latest joint venture taking place at Boatrocker's…
Moon Dog & Beer DeLuxe Splice of Heaven Beer
Many great, rare, vintage and colourful beers decorated the taps of Beer DeLuxe during Good Beer Week when the Fed Square venue was Festival Hub. Among the most colourful was one that the staff at the venue had conceived and brewed with the guys at Moon Dog before the festival. In a change from the brewery's…
Stone & Wood Stone Beer (2011) Beer
Given the runaway success of their Pacific Ale, the Stone & Wood team has little time to do anything but brew batch after batch of it these days (well, when not surfing or hanging out at the beach, anyway). But they do like to find time for their annual Stone Beer brew, the beer that involves head brewer…
Mountain Goat Imperial Pilsner Beer
It wasn't too long ago that the Mountain Goat brewery seemed to be a lager-free zone, with even it's lightest beer - the Steam Ale - being made with an ale yeast. Then along came Richard III, the full-blooded malty Doppelbock and now this, the brewery's first Imperial Pilsner. OK, so neither is a bog…
Bridge Road / The Scratch Scrotch Beer
It's easy to see how the name for this beer was conceived. It's a Scotch Ale from a bar called The Scratch. That said, knowing the guys that run the Brisbane bar, it wouldn't surprise us if they actually decided they wanted a beer that sounded like crotch and worked from there... Either way, the fourth…
Burleigh Brewing Fanny Gertrude's Bickie Beer Beer
Fanny's back! The beer that made its debut on tap at The Local Taphouse's Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular had a genesis as unusual as the actual brew itself, with deliveries of ingredients held up by the Queensland floods, thus making it a race against time to have it ready for the festival. As…
Five Star Deluxe Treatment News
For beer drinkers in Melbourne, the name Beer DeLuxe needs little introduction. In fact, for beer drinkers from anywhere who have been to Melbourne it probably needs little introduction. The flagship venue in Fed Square was turned into one of the best beer venues in the country by visionary management…
Beer & Food: Black Forest News
OK, so other than the cherries added to the glass this isn’t strictly beer and food, but where else to file Crafty’s first beer cocktail? A couple of weeks back we brought you the news that Beer DeLuxe had introduced a new beer cocktail menu, incorporating beers and the ingredients of beer, such…
Beer In Australia: An Introduction News
In 2016, Hardie Grant published The Great Australian Beer Guide, written by The Crafty Pint's founder, James Smith. This is a slightly shortened version of the introductory chapter, which looks at the evolution of Australia's beer scene up until the mid-2010s. The Original "Craft" Beers Back in…
Beer Appreciation: The Perfect Pour News
If you appreciate quality beer and are willing to spend that little bit more putting class in your glass, you may as well give said beer every chance to sing. That can mean selecting the right glass to let it open up or pouring it the right way to create the perfect head. To find out a bit more about…
Crafty Crawls: Melbourne CBD – South News
Back in 2016, when we published our first Crafty Crawl guide to the best beery spots in Melbourne's CBD, we wrote: "you may not know that the pipes in Melbourne CBD are slowly but surely filling with craft beer." Three years on and "slowly but surely" has increased in pace somewhat as a…
Reduced To Beers News
Beer cocktails aren't a new concept. Indeed, measured in terms of The Crafty Pint's relatively short life to date, they date pretty much from the time of the Big Bang, with one of the earliest stories we ever posted being on the creation of hop infusions and wort reductions by Kris Miles, then at…
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…
Aussie Exports: From Melbourne To Tallinn News
During Good Beer Week in 2016, if you called in to the Canadian Pint of Origin venue, you may well have been served by Rob Dooley. Twelve months on, after three years as manager at Beer DeLuxe Hawthorn, he's working for a brewery in Estonia. Rob (above left) is now brewery assistant at Sori Brewing…
Building A Beer Cellar – On Any Budget News
Did you receive the gift of fancy beer this Christmas? Are you something of a hoarder? Or are you at that point in your beer adventure where you've start collecting beers suited to ageing and want to know more? Following a months-long trip exploring the beer culture of Europe, Benedict Kennedy-Cox…
Crafty Crawls: Rozelle, Balmain and Barangaroo News
This crawl first takes you through the quiet leafy streets between pubs in Rozelle and Balmain and, as you find yourself gazing at pretty little terraces, you can almost smell the silk of the QCs and Scrooge McDuck style money silos of the merchant bankers who reside within. But it wasn’t always…
Beer Swag Day Is Back! News
"Pubs have had a pretty special place in Australian culture. Whatever else is going on, you can always go to your local – it’s always there." They were the words of Jade Flavell, the award-winning publican and brewer from The Wheaty in Adelaide, during an interview conducted as a nationwide…
Beers For Bales News
As parts of Australia’s East Coast experience their driest months in living memory, local breweries, bars and bottleshops are finding ways to raise money and awareness of the plight faced by many local farmers. Beer is, after all, an agricultural product, and the link between the land and the…
Beer Swag Day: The Finalists! News
Right then. It's time to hand the reins over to the beer lovers of Australia to select the winner of the ultimate prize from the inaugural Beer Swag Day: the swag full of swag and year of beer! First up, thanks to everyone that got involved. There's the team that turned an idea – put forward…
Crafty Snaps: Mountain Goat Dinner at Beer Deluxe News
Beer DeLuxe recently took control of the Greek Grill upstairs from the bar at Fed Square, turning it into the Beer DeLuxe Grill with a focus on beer-friendly food – Jerk Chicken, BBQ ribs and the like. They plan to make full use of the space with regular beer dinners, the first of which saw Mountain…
Beerfarm Claim The 2024 WA Beer Of The Year Crown News
Longstanding WA craft beer favourite, Beerfarm's IPL, has been crowned the 2024 WA Good Food Guide Awards Beer of the Year. The team from Metricup in the Margaret River region picked up the trophy last night at an awards ceremony held portside in Fremantle’s E-Shed. Upon receiving the award, Beerfarm’s…
Beer's Diversity And Discrimination Problem News
The results of the first Australian Beer Industry Diversity Survey have been released today and they don't paint a pretty picture. The responses to the survey by Beer Agents For Change suggest there is much work to be done to create a genuinely diverse, safe and inclusive local industry. Almost two…
Beer Shakes! News
The crazies at Denmark’s Mikkeller brewery are doing their best to redefine the concept of breakfast beer with their superb dark range and, courtesy of the boys at Beermen.tv, May’s Beer & Brewer Expo even witnessed a Beer Breakfast. Now, thanks to the guys at Beer DeLuxe and Mountain Goat, you can…
Beer Cocktails News
From the people that brought you Mountain Goat malt shakes come Beer Cocktails! Yep, that’s right. The folks at Beer DeLuxe are continuing along their path to educate drinkers about beer in the most unusual and creative ways, this time with a mix of hop-infused spirits and the use of actual beer or…
Pint of Pumpkin, Please News
Either The Crafty Pint timed this East Coast trip remarkably fortuitously or there’s so much innovation going on in Australia’s craft breweries these days that there are unexpected treats waiting around every corner. Because just over 24 hours after helping out with the brew of Stone & Wood’s one-off…
Good Beer Week: Ten Years Of Beers News
It's taking place a year later than planned, but when Good Beer Week returns on Friday (May 14), the team behind the weeklong beer extravaganza will have even more reason to be merry than usual: not only is it another sign of a return to normal after last year's lockdowns, but it's the festival's…
