2 Halfs Brewing Distilling Brewer
Good things take time. It’s a well-known piece of wisdom that few of us take to heart. But spend a little time at 2 Halfs Brewing and you’ll see that Kirk and Dragana Bozinovski apply this wisdom to their brewery. You can taste it in the European-style beers they serve up, but chat with Kirk and…
7th Day Brewery Brewer
On the first day, Mike Beresford Jones took up homebrewing because there was a dearth of locally made craft lagers. He began developing a recipe for a quality pilsner, and a handful of local dads who met through their children’s sport would join him each week to drink it in his garage at Curl Curl,…
Aether Brewing Brewer
“In Greek mythology, Aether is the fifth element, which holds the universe together. Obviously… that’s beer.” This is the idea that gave birth to Aether Brewing years ago, well before the brewery opened in 2016. Plenty has changed at Aether in the intervening years, including the core range…
Ballistic Beer Co Salisbury Brewer
When people talk about the growing craft beer scene in Brisbane, more often than not they’re talking about the inner suburbs of Brisbane. Certainly, few, if any, would have expected an award-winning brewery to pop up in Salisbury. It’s in an industrial area, with rows of cloned steel warehouses…
Bucketty's Brewing Co Brewer
When a brewery’s grand opening includes the mayor cutting through a branch with a chainsaw instead of the standard ribbon ceremony, you’ve got to wonder why. Nick and Lexi McDonald originally planned to open a brewery in Bucketty, a little spot in the Hunter Valley. They bought land and even planted…
Catchment Brewing Co Brewer
Since opening their doors in November 2015, the Catchment Brewing crew have been growing into the eclectic, artistic and historic landscape that makes up West End. West End is a patchwork of character and colour: a blend of cultures and a haven for non-mainstream lifestyles, long known as an area…
Eumundi Brewery (Lion/Kirin) Brewer
For a small town in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, Eumundi’s name is surprisingly well known. People come from far and wide for its massive twice-weekly markets, where vivid artworks, handcrafted textiles, sustainable goods and alternative remedies are available as far as the eye can see. The artistic…
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…
Fortitude Brewing / Noisy Minor Brewer
The clear air up in the Gold Coast hinterland makes for pleasant sunny days that cry out for beer, but once upon a time, the beer offerings on Tamborine Mountain were slim. It wasn’t until 2012 that a couple of locals decided it was up to them to bring good beer to the mountain. They took over a small,…
Hawke's Brewing Brewer
His name’s on the brewery, his face is on the cans, and he was involved in the founding of the business. But Hawke’s Brewing isn’t about Bob Hawke. Well, not really. It’s about what Bob Hawke represents: integrity, generosity, and the fun-loving Aussie spirit. It began in 2015, when Nathan…
Heads of Noosa Brewing Co Brewer
When it comes to attracting attention from afar, Noosa seems to be the star of the Sunshine Coast. People visit from all over to ride the barrels and breaks of the enviable swell, or to cruise down the river at a lazy pace; some soak in all of the boutique shopping and gourmet cuisine and pumping nightlife…
Helios Brewing Brewer
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out Helios Brewing has something to do with the sun. Their logo is a glass of beer from which is emanating the light of the sun. Inside the brewery is a wall mural of the Greek sun god Helios riding a chariot in the sky, holding said glass of beer and the light…
Jervis Bay Brewing Co Brewer
“There seems to be a growing inclination in Australia to mispronounce the name Jervis Bay. May I please assure you that the correct pronunciation of this word is Jervis and not Jarvis.” - Mr Jervis Manton, 1928. With that out of the way, welcome to Jervis Bay Brewing, the brewery that makes a…
Lost Palms Brewing Brewer
Lost Palms is a brewery infused with the spirit of your favourite party shirt. It starts with pink. Lots of pink. You can’t talk about Lost Palms without talking about pink. Pink brewery. Pink logo. Pink beer cans. There’s also a whole lot of pastel green (please don’t ask me if it’s aqua,…
Milton Common – Common Ground Brewing Brewer
Common Ground Brewing isn’t the first brewery to talk about bringing people together and making people feel welcome. But founder Jimmy Young has a straight-down-the-line approach to keeping this at the centre of his business, starting with the name: Common Ground. It captures this idea that people…
Moffat Beach Brewing Co (Caloundra) Brewer
Just because a waterfront brewery is busy doesn’t mean the beer is any good. After all, a view of the ocean can cover a multitude of sins. So, if you were to catch a glimpse of the buzzing crowd at [Moffat Beach Brewing’s brewpub](https://craftypint.com/brewery/431/moffat-beach-brewing-co) on Seaview…
Newstead Brewing Co Brewer
When you look at the independent beer scene in Brisbane, Newstead Brewing Co is part of the furniture. It’s a brewery that’s been seen on billboards, attached to sporting teams, and welcomes visitors to this fine city with its own bar at Brisbane Airport’s domestic terminal. But if you’re…
NORT Brewer
Your friend catches your eye across the table. “Another beer?” “No reason why not!” She hands you a tinnie of Tropical XPA and grabs her third bottle of Refreshing Ale. You pass her the bottle opener and hear the familiar hiss of the lid, then stick your can in a stubbie cooler and crack…
Range Brewing Brewer
Some people said it would never work. You can’t have a successful brewery in Australia without a core range†, they said. A core range is how you build a following of loyal customers, they said. But the team at Range Brewing have never had a problem finding people to drink their beer. Since…
Reckless Brewing Brewer
When your brewery name is an adjective, you’ve got a question to answer: is it a fitting description of your brewery? So: is Reckless Brewing as reckless as the name suggests? The answer is yes… and no. Yes, because it was started by three friends who threw caution to the wind and entered…
Shark Island Brewing Brewer
Shark Island Brewing Co is proud to be part of the Sutherland Shire. From the fact the brewery itself is named after a reef break just off Cronulla, to the naming of some of its beers – you can hunt down the surf spots that inspired Voodoo IPA, The Point Dark Ale, and Shiprock Hazy Pale Ale –…
Sunday Road Brewing Brewer
We all look forward to Sundays for various reasons. For some of us, it’s the day of rest: sitting back, relaxing, and doing as little as possible. For some, it’s the chance to spend time with the people we love: friends, family, anyone who gives a sense of acceptance and belonging. For others,…
The Brewery Townsville Brewer
Not many breweries can boast having their own clock tower. But when you look at the ticking clock looming over Townsville Brewing Co – or simply “The Brewery” as it’s known around town – you get a sense that time is important to this place. The past, the present, and the future. The past…
White Bay Brewery Brewer
White Bay is an area that holds both industrial behemoths and a Hollywood film location, so it stands to reason White Bay Beer Co would capture that blend of character - down to earth, but not without sophistication. The brewery’s original logo showcased the twin smokestacks of the abandoned White…
Your Mates Brewing Brewer
It’s the age old story. Mate meets mate. Mate dreams about making beer for the Sunshine Coast with mate. Mate opens brewery that serves up rippin’ brews with mate. At least, that’s the story of Hep and McGarry, the duo behind Your Mates Brewing. Perhaps you heard of them when they started gypsy…
Blackhearts & Sparrows Braddon Bottleshop
Over the course of a decade, the siblings behind Blackhearts & Sparrows have opened a string of beautiful stores; after making it nine locations in Melbourne, they spread the love further afield with their tenth store, bringing their independent and intimate brand of liquor retail to the nation’s…
Felons Barrel Hall Venue
Felons Barrel Hall shares some characteristics with the Felons Brewing venue next door, some characteristics with the beer halls of Germany, and some characteristics with other local breweries’ barrel venues. And yet it’s distinctly unlike all of them. Where else can you get a Munich-style Helles…
Mountain Goat Newtown (CUB/Asahi) Venue
You ready for this? It’s pretty simple. It’s Mountain Goat. But in Newtown. It’s kind of like the Richmond HQ. But it’s definitely not Richmond. It’s Newtown. While Mountain Goat’s iconic home base is still tucked away in the back streets of Melbourne, the brewery has had a national following…
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…
The Woolhouse Venue
This small bar pouring 14 taps of independent beer and cider isn’t in Melbourne. Nor is it even in Victoria; it’s a kilometre over the NSW border as the crow flies (or two kilometres for those of us who aren’t crows). But The Woolhouse is an oasis of good beer in Albury, a kind of outpost…
Craft Cartel Bottleshop
You’re lying on the couch and the doorbell rings. You sneak over to the window and peek through the curtain, hoping it’s not your weird neighbour or someone conducting a survey. It’s not your neighbour. It’s not someone with a clipboard. It’s a courier, and they’re holding a box from Craft…
Slipstream Fruit Cart Lemon Lime Sour & Jetsetter New Zealand Hazy IPA Beer
Slipstream’s Fruit Cart series of sours has been running since 2020, but the newest entry brings a burst of freshness to keep you on your toes - not just in the flavour, but with a label design facelift and a gold medal from the Royal Queensland Awards. Considering I drank this **Fruit Cart Lemon…
Sunday Road Electric Avenue Beer
‘Crisp and clean’ is often used to mean ‘low alcohol and low flavour’. But not here. Electric Avenue is the latest Sunday Road Cold IPA, and it’s - completely unsurprisingly - a good drop. It’s yellow and bright and does many things right, with its pale base letting the Cryo Amarillo,…
Ballistic Beer Reef Red Ale & Reef XPA Beer
[R-I-N-S-H](https://craftypint.com/beer/8053/ballistic-beer-reef-pale-and-reef-lager) and repeat - Ballistic has added a couple of new beers to their year-round Reef range. While they’ve had a mid-strength red in the past, Ballistic brought this **Red Ale** up to 5.5 percent for a rounder mouthfeel…
Modus Tepache Beer
“Sorry, we could not calculate the walking directions from "Mexico City, Mexico" to "Modus Merewether.” Not helpful, Google Maps. I was going to do a whole thing about the distance a street vendor from Mexico City would have to travel to bring you a cup of authentic Tepache, and how it’d be…
Woolgoolga Brewing Co Bombora IIPA Beer
When Woopi Brewing hit their first GABS, they hit it with a IIPA that punched through the flavour barrier of all the weird beers around them. Named for a potentially dangerous stretch of huge waves over shallow water, Bombora IIPA offers up plenty of thrills if you can handle it. A straightforward…
Felons Brewing Galaxy Haze Beer
It was a happy day for the Felons team when they [walked through HPA's hop fields](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nv2apVRjvk) in rural Victoria, checking out bines, crushing hop cones and cracking tinnies. They were in the process of kicking off their partnership with HPA to keep the Galaxy flowing…
Felons Brewing Mid Crush Beer
Mid Crush is an aptly named beer. It’s mid-strength. It’s super crushable. Enough said. Well, I suppose there’s a bit more that can be said. Mid Crush is super pale and super bright, looking as much like a sparkling cider or white wine as like a beer. A little fresh grass and citrus hop aroma…
Slipstream Brewing Batch #1000 Quadruple IPA Beer
A thousand batches of beer. That is a lot of beer. I don’t mind admitting I haven’t made that much beer. But Slipstream have reached this milestone, and they decided to celebrate by brewing a IIIIPA as their thousandth batch. In the theme of celebration, I’m picturing a glamorous awards night.…
Brouhaha Life Is Peachy Beer
‘Life is peachy’? Gosh, that’s a big call after the couple of years we’ve all had! But I’m a sucker for an optimistic outlook, so I’ll jump on board. The fact that this peach sour is an opaque orange tells you Brouhaha didn’t skimp on the fruit in this one. And if you aren’t convinced…
Lost Palms The Way It Is, Paper Trails & Vibe (with One Drop) Beer
I believe it was Clark Kent’s Uncle Bob who said: ‘With great baby comes great responsibility.’ Lost Palms’ head brewer Mitch is a new father, and is feeling the weight of the above quote. So the brew team put together a session IPA that’d give him a responsible alternative to those IIPAs…
Felons To Storm Brisbane News
In 1823, after a month lost at sea, a few convicts stumbled upon what is now the Brisbane River: tired, hungry and, most of all, thirsty. A riverside brewery would have been just the thing to lift their spirits, but, alas, they were 200 years too early. As of October 2018, however, people down at the…
Mission To Mahrs News
Between the rapid growth of the Australian beer scene, and the fact this Great Southern Land of ours is stranded like a runaway lost at sea, we can sometimes get stuck in our beer bubble. There’s so much going on in our own backyard that we don’t always look outside of it to see what’s happening…
Beer Travel: Bali, Hops, Water & Yeast I News
Over the years, we've written travel pieces covering much of New Zealand, parts of the US, Scandinavia, the UK and more besides. But what of one of the closest and most popular destinations for Australians? On a working holiday to Bali, Mick Wust set out to see whether there's any solace for…
Beer Travel: Bali, Hops, Water & Yeast II News
In part one of his endeavour to hunt down good beer in Bali, Mick Wust focused on the offerings from Big Beer. In part two, he delves a little deeper... If your biggest complaint about a trip to Bali was that you were limited to Bintangs on the beach, Euro lagers with pizza, and the odd stout on…
Best New Queensland Beers Of 2018 News
Beer in Australia is improving exponentially every year. Perhaps it’s the fear of impending crises that does it: we faced Y2K, then the Mayan calendar concern of 2012, now Trump. Perhaps "Brew every beer as though it’s your last" is imprinted on the minds of paranoid brewers. And, with…
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…
Semi-Pro. But Not Half-Arsed News
In a world where banks say they want to be your friend, fast food companies pretend they’ll help your family be healthy, and supermarket-owned beers come with artsy hand drawn labels, it's easy to grow cynical. So, when you hear the name Semi-Pro Brewing Co, one can’t help but be skeptical: is…
2020: The Year In Beer - Queensland News
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of complaining about 2020. Don't get me wrong – I'm not downplaying the difficulty and hurt and frustration it's brought to so many people. It's just that we’ve spent all year talking about how difficult this year has been, and for good reason……
The Writer Behind The Beer Drinker's Toolkit News
Mick Wüst never thought he’d write about beer, let alone write a book about it. But with Beer Drinker’s Toolkit about to hit shelves across the country, The Crafty Pint writer who has become a familiar face for many in the beer industry couldn’t be more excited to see his ever-exuberant…
Sip, Speak, Repeat... Taking To The Soapbox News
We’re always going on about the speed at which Brisbane’s beer scene is growing: leaps and bounds; a new brewery every other week; all that jazz. But, in a recent article, The Crafty Pint touched upon the way this young segment of the craft beer industry is maturing; in the words of Newstead…
Best New NSW Beers Of 2021 News
Since kicking off our look back at the year in beer, we've run the rule over WA and Tasmania. Now it's the turn of New South Wales, brought to you by the loving hands of Judd Owen. One hundred and seven days. Much as we would like to expunge the whole June to October period from our collective…
Beer Travel: The Breweries Of The Sunshine Coast News
The Sunshine Coast is known for many things: a beautiful climate, stunning beaches, great surf, its spectacular Hinterland. If you're heading there as a family, there's Australia Zoo, the Big Pineapple and the odd theme park to keep you entertained. Heck, thanks to the Russell Crowe's jockstrap and the…
Crafty Crawls: South Brisbane & Beyond News
South East Queensland has an overabundance of fun. Apparently, Dreamworld, North Stradbroke and Brisbane BBQ Festival are all "Too much fun for just one day". Clearly, we’ll be overwhelmed if we’re not careful. (As an aside, the state of Ohio also claims to be "Too much fun for just one…
Starting A Brewery: Brisbane's New Kids News
At this year's Australian International Beer Awards, much like last year's, one of the big winners of the night was Queensland. Gold Coast based Black Hops Brewing and Brisbane's Green Beacon took out Champion Small Australian Brewery and Champion Medium Brewery respectively while a truckload of…
Latest News From The Crafty Cabal - March 2020 News
We know it's only been three weeks since the last of these but we've been busy, not least in launching the long-mooted new look Crafty Cabal homepage. It makes it easier to see what's available as well as what's coming up and makes the whole experience much smoother now we've completed the integration…
Who Brews Hop & Clover Beers? News
Plenty of people have made a big purchase without telling their spouse. But we doubt too many people have bought a brewery that way. After a number of years in the Navy, Dave Henderson worked on patrol boats as a contractor in Darwin. But it turns out there’s not much to do during the wet season…
Who Brews Ornith Beers? News
When Daniel Venema launched Ornith Brewing in 2018, he hoped at some point he might be able to leave his regular job behind and move to brewing full-time. In the end he didn't even had to wait for his first beer to be served for hopes to become reality. That said, it wouldn't be Ornith that took up…
Making A Stand News
“A few years ago, it was good enough to show up with amazing beer, a folding card table and a pull up banner. Tasting notes were a nice touch, and some business cards in the back pocket.”Brewers and punters alike remember these good ol’ days of beer festivals. A marquee, a trestle table and a few…
Philter: Five Years In Five Beers News
Maybe it’s thanks to the 1980s can design but it’s a little hard to believe Philter are only five years young. As co-founder Mick Neil puts it: “Five years have come around very quickly.” Maybe that feeling of longevity comes from the fact Philter's story ties in so many different parts…
Festival Beers News
Slowly but surely, it's become easier to enjoy a decent beer while watching live music. Where once your only chance to combine good beer with good music was at a festival that allowed you to bring your own or a live music venue that had resisted the lure of a tap contract, these days you can find breweries…
