Beers - The Crafty Pint

Bad Shepherd Red Zeppelin & Oatmeal Stout

Tapped Today

The Bad Shepherd IPA Series continues apace, this time with a step back into rather more traditional realms. Red Zeppelin is a red IPA made with just water, malt, hops and yeast, resisting the temptation to reach for the kitchen shelves as per recent forays into milkshake territory. The collaboration with Ballarat's Hop Temple has been dry-hopped no less than four times with new US varieties Cashmere and Idaho Gem, yet – as is often the case with such beers – the specialty malts chosen to create… Read more

Style: Red IPA & Oatmeal Stout
ABV: 6.0% & 5.5%

Stockists

A Point of Difference Liquor

Carwyn Cellars

Fiftyfive

Grape & Grain Liquor Cellars

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Little Bang Dark Arts & Sludgebeast

Tapped Yesterday

Why bring one dark beer out for winter when you can release two? (OK, if we're honest, there's more than two in the Little Bang locker, but bear with us as these two have been released in cans within a week of each other...) Dark Arts is the Stepney brewers' joint venture with SA's State Theatre Company. Apparently, the latter requested "a dark beer for a dark show", but by the end of the collaboration Little Bang "just wanted to give them some chocolates." The aroma suggests… Read more

Style: Chocolate & Imperial Stouts
ABV: 6.3% & 12.0%
Bitterness: 36.3 & 89 IBU

Modus Operandi Silent Knight Porter (Core Range)

Tapped June 23rd, 2019

Ask someone the first thing that comes into their mind when they think of Modus Operandi and we'll wager the majority come up with something related to hop forward beers or IPAs. They'd have good reason to do so too; it's been upon such beers the serial trophy winners from the Northern Beaches have built much of their reputation. Yet it would ignore many other gems in their locker; indeed, back in 2016, The Crafty Pint's panel opted to include their dark beers en masse in our Best New NSW Beers Of… Read more

Style: Porter
ABV: 5.8%

Glass House Brewery Session

Tapped June 23rd, 2019

Glass House have been producing crowd-pleasing beers at their Sunshine Coast home since late 2018 and, as winter 2019 arrived, starting putting some of them into cans, with Session one of the first. At just 3 percent ABV, it's designed, as the name suggests, with session drinking – or, perhaps, designated drivers – in mind, combining an English ale yeast and Ahtanum hops. It's an American variety favoured by the Glass House brewers and gives the easy-drinking beer a light citrus undertone. Matt… Read more

Style: Session Ale
ABV: 3.0%

Shedshaker Hempathy Pale Ale

Tapped June 23rd, 2019

By virtue of its close association with marijuana, Australia's hemp industry is a fledgling one. It was only in November 2017 that laws regarding the consumption of hemp-based products changed and now hemp farming is becoming serious business. It’s also an industry championed by many in the know, including the CSIRO who, when running the inaugural Australian Hemp Conference, asked Shedshaker to brew a beer just for it. To meet the brief, the Castlemaine brewery enlisted the help of Bunjil Farm… Read more

Style: Pale Ale With Hemp
ABV: 4.8%
Bitterness: 19

Shedshaker Brewing Frailty Pale Ale

Tapped June 23rd, 2019

In 1986, the Australian rock outfit Hunters & Collectors released their fourth studio album, named after the term the band used to describe alcohol. Human Frailty was both a commercial and critical hit for the band and cemented their position in the annals of great Australian bands. Thirty years later, Hunters & Collectors drummer Doug Falconer is part-owner of a brewery in Castlemaine, and the brewery owners couldn’t resist making a beer to celebrate the album. Perhaps Australia’s first… Read more

Style: American Pale Ale
ABV: 5.2%
Bitterness: 30 IBU

Moo Brew Red IPA

Tapped June 21st, 2019

Moo Brew and Dark Mofo both hail from the same place: the unique, mind-bending arts, booze, culture and whatever else takes their fancy empire sparked by David Walsh. So it makes sense the former would be involved in the latter – and would brew a beer for the event too. This Red IPA was launched at Dark Mofo 2019's opening weekend and has been heading across the mainland since in the brewery's new look limited release cans. They follow the popular "pop a sticker on a standard design"… Read more

Style: Red IPA
ABV: 5.8%

Stockists

Prince Alfred - Port Melbourne

Dark Mofo - Winter Feast, Altar Bar, Night Mass

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Van Dieman Giblin X

Tapped June 21st, 2019

Giblin is the imperial stout that's been in the Van Dieman limited release locker for years. And, like the brewery itself, it's one that's evolving as Will Tatchell's farm-based, estate ale-creating operation moves into a second decade. No longer is it enough to put out an imperial stout brewed with water, malt, hops and yeast, this time around it's a case of homegrown hops and a full year in just-emptied Port barrels. Clearly, the latter made their mark as the first comment by Will Ziebell of this… Read more

Style: Port Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV: 10.0%
Bitterness: 92 IBU

Stockists

Dirty Pennies

Bottles leaving the brewery mid-July

Kegs rolling out at events over the second half of 2019

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3 Ravens & Brouhaha Barrel-Aged Imperial Milk Stout

Tapped June 21st, 2019

When is a milk stout not a milk stout? When Brendan at 3 Ravens and Matt at Brouhaha decide to take it places... This beer started out as the latter's tasty but rather straightforward milk stout and put it through a process that makes Gary's transmogrification in Team America look like a mere spot of blusher and a couple of blobs of cotton wool. The process, to give it its technical term, was “reiterated mashing” – taking the first runnings from a very thick mash, using them as the brewing… Read more

Style: Barrel-Aged Imperial Milk Stout
ABV: 14.2%
Bitterness: 44 IBU

Stockists: Beer launched at Dark Mass on June 22

3 Ravens Robust Porter

Tapped June 21st, 2019

With their Dark and Stout becoming lesser spotted beasts these days, 3 Ravens have been a little light on the dark beers. With an event featuring nothing but to mark the winter solstice taking place at the brewery and many pubs after a darker winter offering, they came up with this, the Robust Porter. It's as you might expect such a beer to be: nigh on black, with plenty of coffee aromas (although no coffee added) and dark chocolate throughout. Inspired by Deschutes' Black Butte and featuring the… Read more

Style: Robust Porter
ABV: 5.8%

Eagle Bay Sour Pink Stout

Tapped June 21st, 2019

In craft beer there's conventional and there's, well, sour pink stouts. Likely the most left of centre beer from the team at Eagle Bay, this is a riff on their existing Cacao Stout and draws inspiration from the Papua New Guinea cacao bean, renowned for it's uncanny raspberry and coffee scent. Brewer Keegan Steinbacher wanted to emulate the unique flavours and aromas found in the world famous beans so brewed a clean, sour base beer and packed it to the brim with raspberry, The Cape Effect coffee… Read more

Style: Sour Pink Stout
ABV: 6.0%

Eagle Bay Norwegian IPA

Tapped June 21st, 2019

We've seen them all here at The Crafty Pint: from the pastry inspired, to the double dry-hopped and sour, from the tiny to the sextuple and everything in between, there's few places IPAs haven't been in recent years. And they've started down another path in recent months with the advent on these shores of kveik yeast. Originating in Norway, it might bring a fresh face to the New World hoppy beer arena, but its history in brewing is lengthy, and it's collecting quite the fanbase. Eagle Bay seems… Read more

Style: Kveik IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Bitterness: 32 IBU

Eagle Bay Sparkling Chardonnay Ale & Rosé Ale

Tapped June 21st, 2019

Beer and wine often exist in very different worlds. With the recent surge of creative, experimental and non-conventional products in both industries, however, wineries and breweries have found plenty of common ground, along with a portion of the market interested in exploring both worlds and their nuances. Hot on the trail of vintages around the country, brewers have been meddling with vino in their breweries to try to achieve products that either showcase both grain and grape or enhance their ales… Read more

Style: Beer-Wine Hybrids
ABV: 7.0% & 6.8%
Bitterness: 10 IBU