Twang Brewing Brewer
For all the negatives that came with COVID and its lockdowns, there were a handful of positives to arise from the pandemic too. Many people got to know their communities better and spent more time exploring them, walking every inch of their local streets and parks, meeting neighbours they’d only acknowledged…
Dad & Dave's x Back Of The Ferry 10K XPA Beer
The Crafty Pint has been around a while (I realised while recording an interview earlier that today is actually 14 years to the day since the full site went live) but we're still not as old as Back Of The Ferry, a beer blog started in 2009 by mates who enjoyed beers together on the back of the Manly…
Felons Land At Last & Red Sky At Night & Wild Cherry & The Depths Beer
More than 20,000 litres of beer ageing in barrels in the middle of a bustling capital city, wedged between the sparkling Brisbane River and pumping live music. Is there anything else like that in Australia? Is there anything else like that in the world? I don’t think there is. The team at Felons…
Bad Shepherd Peanut Butter Porter 2020 Beer
They've gradually been transitioning their beers into cans for quite some time now. And, as we move through 2020, they've been getting rather bolder with them too. Exhibit 1: the return of Peanut Butter Porter, which first appeared in black and tan cans as entry nine in their Brew Crew Series last summer…
BentSpoke Brewing Co Descent 19 Beer
Given his history at the Wig & Pen, there would have been an expectation when BentSpoke opened in Canberra that Richard Watkins would be set free to unleash an array of the experimental and the unlikely upon drinkers. Yet, while visitors to the brewery's Braddon HQ have been able to try a multitude of…
Wildflower The International Beer
On the anniversary of their first year of existence, Wildflower has released its first collaboration. It’s not a hands-on collaborative effort in that no one else actually came to their home to get their hands dirty. No one even bothered coming around to chat. Instead, it’s the result of being part…
High Country Brewers Rule 47 Collaboration 2014 Beer
The beauty of a beer writer joining a brewery in a marketing role: they love the opportunity to exercise their writing talents. Case in point is James Davidson, former Beer Bar Band blogger and Brews News contributor now ensconced happily at Bright Brewery in the Victorian High Country, which hosted…
Black Hops Chair Force One & Mega Hornet Beer
With winter upon us, Black Hops look to offer warming comfort in two very different ways with this pair of now-canned limited releases. In the case of **Chair Force One**, they take a pretty traditional cooler months approach: the beer is a chocolate coffee stout, with the latter adjunct coming courtesy…
Stomping Ground Bearbrass Beer
There’s a fair bit of history to this limited release tin from Stomping Ground. For one, the name Bearbrass was among the first that European settlers knew Melbourne as, apparently due to a misunderstanding of Birrarung, the name of the Yarra River in the language of the Wurundjeri. Fast forward quite…
Ballistic Beer Sleep When You’re Dead: Black IPA Beer
The number thirteen may be unlucky for some, but not for Ballistic Beer - the 13th beer in their Sleep When You’re Dead series is a tasty example of a style that’s largely fallen out of favour. It brings together the Simcoe, Mosaic, Centennial, Chinook and Warrior hops, pairs them with a trio…
Wildflower & Balter Dime A Dozen Beer
The origins of Dime a Dozen go all the way back to July 2019 when Wildflower’s Topher Boehm got together with Scotty Hargrave of the little indie brewery that could, Balter, to lay down a lager together. As far as I’m aware, absolutely nothing significant has occurred to either of these collaborators…
Blog of the Month: Two Brewers Abroad News
Given it’s been rather more than a month since we last ran a feature on one of the many colourful blogs that exist in the world of Aussie craft beer, the series' name is becoming a little less than accurate. Still, semantics never stopped Douglas Adams from knocking out six books in the Hitchhiker’s…
Blog of the Month: beerwinebeer News
With the British & Irish Lions have beaten the Wallabies and Andy Murray the new King of Wimbledon, it seems only right to look north for inspiration for the latest featured blog. And where better to go than to a man who can be seen sporting a kilt at the beer and wine world’s grand occasions. Willie…
Blog of the Month: Crafty Ramblings News
Given we have a website dedicated to craft beer to keep us busy and in regular attendance at breweries, bars and beer festivals all over Australia and, occasionally, further afield, it’s not often that we come across a beer blog that instils feelings of jealousy. It’s fair to say, however, that Crafty…
Blog of the Month: eat, drink, stagger News
If there’s one thing The Crafty Pint likes to be, it’s fair to one and all. So, having had Beer Blokes as the first featured blog, it’s time to redress the balance. We’re not saying Prof Pilsner – the author of Beer Blokes – is the sort of unreconstructed male chauvinist characterised by…
Blog of the Month: Beer Bar Band News
Beer, bars and bands. Is there a finer trio of activities on which to dedicate your spare time? Certainly not in the mind of James Davidson, aka jayelde, creator of the blog of the same name that’s dedicated to his three favourite social pursuits. Since launching in February of this year, it’s become…
Blog of the Month: Water & Hops & Malt & Yeast News
In recent weeks, you may have spotted an article or three on The Crafty Pint from Nick O. Nick is a Kiwi now living in Sydney who has submerged himself in the local craft beer scene then made himself known to us. As well as acting as the NSW Crafty envoy, he writes his own blog on the beer world,…
Blog of the Month: Here For The Hops News
As we prepare to add the first non-Victorian brewery and bar listings to The Crafty Pint this week, we figured it was time to invite our first interstate blogger on board too. Here For The Hops documents the beer scene in Adelaide and beyond through the eyes of keen home brewer, photographer and Wheaty…
Blog of the Month: From Beer To Eternity News
A bit of a change in direction here. While last month’s featured bloggers were a bunch of Sydneysiders casually documenting their drinks and pub visits in between surfing trips, this time it’s the turn of a couple of newcomers to the beer writing scene who have their focus set firmly on the crazy,…
Blog of the Month: Beer Is Your Friend News
From music webzine editor to newspaper journo to beer blogger – all the while becoming ever more fascinated with great beer – Glen Humphries has spent a life writing, with Beer Is Your Friend his beer blog. It’s one that allows him to pontificate, cheerlead, review and query in equal measure, while…
Blog of the Month: A Great Set Of Tipples News
While we avoid rating beers on The Crafty Pint, preferring instead to talk about them and leave you to make up your own mind, it doesn’t mean we’re opposed to the idea. Especially when it’s done in such a straightforward manner as it is on the Great Set Of Tipples blog. None of this scoring for…
Blog of the Month: Frozen Summers News
We’ve been a little slack on the featured blog side of things recently, with a couple of months passing since the last. So how about making up for lost time by featuring a man who not only writes a blog, but also films short beer reviews, experiments with beer in the kitchen and records beery podcasts…
Blog of the Month: Beer Blokes News
Anyone who’s a regular at beer events around Victoria will have come across Prof Pilsner: wise-cracking beer dinner host, restaurant manager, beer blogger and all round top bloke. He also gave The Crafty Pint lots of lifts to pubs when his leg was busted so we won’t hear a bad word said about him;…
Blog of the Month: Ambersandwich News
Many Aussie beer drinkers across numerous states will know Kris Miles. One of the founders of the sadly-no-more Nectar bottleshop in Brisbane, then hop spirit-infusing cocktail creator at Beer DeLuxe and now bar manager at the MONA Winery Bar in Tassie, he now spends much of his spare time with his partner…
Blog of the Month: 250 Beers News
The advent of Untappd has made it easy for avid beer drinkers to document the journey on which their tastebuds takes them. But for one man, merely tapping “Check In” and giving beers a rating doesn’t seem to be enough. Darren Magin has a rolling counter on his own personal blog that keeps count…
Blog of the Month: Back of the Ferry News
Just like a micro bringing out a light beer, Crafty might be at risk of upsetting the purists here. Why? Because the first NSW blog we’ve asked to perform a show and tell doesn’t write exclusively about Aussie craft beer. Heck, they don’t even write about craft beer all the time. Worse still, they…
Blog Of The Month: Ale of a Time News
You may have come across Ale of a Time before. It’s been running for nigh on two years now, after all. If you haven’t, there’s a good chance you’ve come across its creator’s writing before anyhow. Or, if you live in Melbourne, you’ll probably have rubbed shoulders with him at a beer event…
Blog Of The Month: girlplusbeer News
The Crafty Pint first came across Pia Poynton when she was working at Five Bar, one of very few venues in and around Perth that’s showing any real support for craft beer. Since then, she’s moved south to the Margaret River region, where her predominantly beer-themed blog has taken off and she’s…
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…
The Story Of: Korben News
The Story Of... is an occasional series on The Crafty Pint that's traditionally delved into the backstory of iconic and cult beers. It's been a while since we last ran one – and we may well expand it to include more than just beers in the future.For now, however, the series makes a comeback with the…
