Felons Brewing Co Brewer
It’s the 1820s: Four convicts from Sydney are the first westerners to stumble upon the Brisbane River after bad weather seriously messes with their navigation. Fast forward more than a century to the 1930s: The Howard Smith Wharves and the Story Bridge are constructed to provide relief work during…
La Sirène Brewing Brewer
Late in 2011, a buzz started spreading around the Melbourne beer cognoscenti that there was a hot new beer in town, a saison that had appeared all of a sudden. Bearing the name La Sirène and packaged in champagne bottles decorated with artwork of an elegance not usually found in the beer world, it was…
Beermash VenueBottleshop
Melbourne has a habit of ensuring restaurants, bars and pubs never rest on their laurels, with a cooler, fancier or more exciting venue seemingly always on the verge of opening just down the road. In such a city, adaptation and evolution are the best ways to keep yourself on the radar. This is a method…
Local Taphouse St Kilda Venue
Few people know Aussie beer like renowned writer and brewer Willie Simpson, so when he calls a venue “the best beer bar in the land” it’s time to pay attention. Since opening early in 2008, The Local Taphouse in St Kilda has been tearing through up to 400 different beers a year on its 20 taps and…
Kekou Venue
Beer has come a long way in Australia. Whether judged by a glance through the myriad breweries and beer styles covering the country, or by considering the number of venues and bottleshops now serving craft beer, things have most definitely changed. Beer’s elevation to the dining table has come a long…
The Henley Brook Venue
It’s amazing how the shoulders ease when turning onto West Swan Road. As the warm light dapples beneath vines of Australia’s second oldest wine region the pace of mind slows, calm takes hold and the delights of the Swan Valley whizz past, just 25 minutes from Perth’s CBD. But for all of its grape-centricity…
The Scratch Venue
Before any other bar in Brisbane offered tastings of their beers; before Queensland had more breweries than people; before your nanna realised her floral print couch was missing… there was The Scratch. Australia was a little late to the game with the craft beer movement, and Queensland was…
Beerfarm X Fervor Native Series: Boab Nut Brown Ale Beer
Beerfarm's longstanding collab with Fervor returns in 2023 for a ninth time. It's testament to the incredibly diverse availability of native ingredients in Australia – and the important connection they have with the history of Aboriginal people – that this series continues to be unique in both style…
Mash Brewing Donut Beer 2.0 Beer
Mash Brewing have teamed up once again with their good mates at Donut Waste and Oz Harvest to create Donut Beer 2.0, and this time around they've created a pastry sour with a malt bill made up almost entirely of doughnuts. For a bit of background, Donut Waste is a Perth-based waste and sustainability…
Beerland Brewing Ugly Sweater Beer
Winter is here, which means it's time to bring out those ugly sweaters. For Beerland’s latest winter 2019 release, they've done exactly that – only in the form of an India brown ale. Never the most common of styles, here the brewers have given it a bit of a revamp here with the intention of keeping…
Stone & Wood Stone Beer 2015 Beer
Earlier this year, Stone & Wood once again invited friends from inside and outside the beer world to their Byron Bay home for the annual brewing of their Stone Beer – the one that involves heating volcanic rocks from Fiji in a fire on the driveway before dropping them into the kettle then transferring…
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…
Matso's Mango Beer Beer
In these balmy, barmy days in the world of beer, where seemingly nothing is off limits for brewers and drinkers and "tropical" finds its way into the description of a huge number of beers, it kind of puts Matso's into a fresh perspective. Not only that, but with fruit being added to all manner of beers,…
Green Beacon Allpress Coffee and Donuts Breakfast Stout Beer
Having donuts for breakfast is only marginally more healthy than having beer for breakfast. But at the point where you’re having both at the same time, I guess health probably wasn’t the main criteria when you were picking this morning’s meal. Green Beacon have partnered with Allpress several…
Tumut River Brewing Portstar Smoked Porter & May Contain Nuts Beer
It’s always funny when two beers look so similar but taste so different, like when identical twins have wildly different personalities. I compared these beers side-by-side, and they showed the same dark brown pour, although the foam on May Contain Nuts was a bit tighter and a shade darker. (Even…
Mash Brewing Donut Beer Beer
Typically, beer is made from milled grain mashed in hot water before hops are added, some while the liquid is hot, some later when things are cooler, along with yeast and other stuff if you’re feeling creative. Many fermented products follow the same path to deliciousness, and that includes donuts.…
White Bay Beer Co Dolcé Noir Imperial Stout Beer
Given the era in which we live – one in which there's a flurry of excitement for dessert-like releases in which one of the only ways to identify the liquid as beer is the word "beer" on the label – and the contents of the ingredient list on Dolcé Noir, you'd be forgiven for thinking this winter…
Beer Nuts: ‘Manda Lê News
If you've spent any time around Melbourne's beer community, the chances are you'll have come across ‘Manda Lê. And, if you've come across ‘Manda Lê, there's an excellent chance you'll remember the meeting.Not only has 'Manda been a familiar friendly face at bars, festivals and events…
Beer Nuts: Leith Booker News
Beer Nuts is an occasional feature we run that shines a spotlight on people who take their passion for good beer to the extreme – and sometimes beyond. Here, we step inside the beer cave of Leith Booker. The 36-year-old expat Kiwi has managed to well and truly ensconce himself in the local beer…
Beer Nuts: Matt Kirkey News
Beer Nuts is our semi-regular feature focusing on people taking their love of beer to extreme levels. People such as Matt Kirkey, a Canadian who moved to the warmer climes of Australia a few years ago. Earlier this year, the 35-year-old quit his job this year to travel…
Beer Nuts: The Beer Drinkers News
The rapid rise in popularity of Instagram over the past couple of years has seen many people take their love of craft beer social via the medium of photography. For most, it's a case of snapping whatever's in front of them and sharing. For some, effort goes into setting up the shots: obscure angles;…
Beer Nuts: Michael Doulton News
According to the town's Wikipedia page, the most notable thing about Truro – other than its agricultural history and delectable array of breads and pastries that meld the region's German and Cornish influences – is rather gruesome. The town on the edge of the Barossa Valley became notorious in…
Beer Nuts: Kelly Whyte News
For someone with such a strong passion for beer, who has brought her enthusiasm to beer scenes in two states, we're not sure how Kelly Whyte hasn’t been featured in our Beer Nuts series already. She could only be described in terms of the sort of super-fan that attends almost…
Beer Nuts: Beer Bogan Jamie Reeves News
There are plenty of Facebook groups out there dedicated to craft beer, but we don't know of many that have had a beer brewed and sold commercially, as happened with the South West Craft Beer Bogans (SWCBB) last year. One of the founders of the group, which has been embraced by the local beer industry…
Beer Nuts: The Fletcher Brothers News
If you've spent any amount of time taking an interest in beer in Australia in the past few years, you've probably come across Jez and / or Sam Fletcher in some way, shape or form. If you live in Sydney or attend quality beer events and festivals, you may well have shared a drink with them. If you read…
Beer Nuts: A Craft Beer Ideot News
Way back before The Crafty Pint even existed online, as we brainstormed ideas for stories and features on the site, a mate said we should make sure we included the readers we hoped to attract to the site. As a standup comic we figured he'd know a thing or two about giving the people what they want so…
Beer Nuts: The Indies Lovers News
Whenever the industry gathers for one of its award nights, social media gives those who can't make it along a glimpse of the stars of the show. Most often, it's brewers or business owners beaming with their trophies, awarded for the outstanding quality of their beer as judged by their…
Beer Nuts: Deb Lieu News
As Australia's beer scene continues expanding and maturing and more money pours into the industry, there's still no shortage of people driven purely by passion to make their own unique mark. Sure, you'll find high net worth individuals investing in breweries but longtime homebrewers…
Beer Nuts: Ben Costin News
Back in March, when the good beer community of Brisbane came together for Brewsvegas 2018, among the events on the program was the first ever Brewniverse Pageant. The event, run by The Transcontinental Hotel and Mornington Peninsula Brewery and with The Crafty Pint on the judging panel,…
Beer Nuts: Crafty Kev News
As introductions go, it was a pretty good one... Hi Guys,I hope you are well.A couple of months ago I decided to embark on a beer drinking adventure. For the past few months I have been documenting my attempts to drink every beer on your Hottest 100 list and I must say I'm having a cracking time. It…
Beer Nuts: Rosemarie Ensink News
The beer world is full of colourful characters. We all know the charismatic brewmaster, the bartender whose knowledge knows no bounds, the homebrewer who'll be brewing commercially some day and the passionate beer devotee sitting across the bar. Indeed, perhaps the most beautiful aspect of the…
Beer Nuts: The Beer Tragic News
The first two people to feature as Crafty Pint "Beer Nuts" are both relatively new converts to the world of awesome beer. While Jimmy "Craft Beer Ideot" Swinglehurst and Scotty "Beardface" Thompson have accelerated from their first craft beer to their own brands of humorous obsession in no time, our…
Beer Nuts: Paul Cooke News
Teaching kids all day can be thirsty work and someone who knows all about that is Paul Cooke. He's a primary school teacher in Perth where, along with his wife Laura (also a teacher), he participates in a program called deferred salary. The program sees Paul and Laura paid 80 percent of their wage…
Beer Nuts: Haydz Sam News
There's a good chance anyone who's a regular at beer events in Melbourne will have met Haydz Sam. With his broad Kiwi accent, even broader smile and excitability for all things beer, Haydz is a bearded, tattooed man that still stands out in bars and breweries filled with bearded,…
Beer Nuts: Beardface News
Late last year, we kicked off a new series of features on The Crafty Pint called Beer Nuts, which shines a light on some of the most colourful beer lovers found in Australia – those that take their passion for the amber nectar above and beyond the normal call of duty. The launch article featuring…
Beer Nuts: Ode To The Road News
Australia's vast, wild and untamed countryside has long acted as a magnet that encourages exploration and expeditions. For the earliest white explorers, those journeys could last a far shorter time than planned and leave a far smaller number of explorers by the end. Today, caravans,…
Beer Nuts: Dave Croft News
Visiting a new country, city or town – or even revisiting one – is often a cause for celebration for beer geeks. Whether making a trip for work or pleasure, each new journey offers the opportunity to become acquainted with an area's local beer scene. And there are few who clock up…
A Brewer's Night In: Frenchies' Festive Beer Dinner Event
Given the time of year, some things just scream "Early Christmas gift!", and this one ticks all the boxes. On December 7 you can join the Frenchies brewers for an intimate evening in the surrounds of the beautiful bistro/brewery with a suitably festive theme. Over the…
