Articles by Crafty Pint
Beer Travel: The Noisy Minor Shout 2014
OK, so we’re not 100 percent sure if what follows counts as beer travel. But there was a bus involved, there was beer and people moved around… The event in question was the second Noisy Minor…
The Rivers Overrunneth
Little Rivers is the first new brewery to open in Tasmania in a few years. Located in the state's beautiful northeast, it's headed by a former winemaker who learned the brewing trade at Burleigh Brewing on the Gold Coast.
Beyond Craft...
Had enough of craft beer? Then how about cult beer? Clearly, the owners of a new bar in Melbourne feel it’s time to take things a little further, with Two Row announcing itself as a home for “cult…
King Henrys
While they may not have enjoyed Australia’s brand of cricket, it seems that the Brits rather like Australian beer. Hot on the heels of the success of Redoak, Hawthorn and 4 Pines at last year’s International…
Nail On Tap
WA’s Nail Brewing has been at the forefront of the state’s craft beer industry for well over a decade now. Its founder, John Stallwood (pictured above), has also been instrumental in the rise of the…
Getting Noisier
One of Queensland’s newest brewing companies, Fortitude, celebrated its first birthday this month with its second annual Noisy Minor Shout, which saw the brewing team take invited guests on the tour…
The Happiest Decade
It began as a student teacher’s hunt for cheap jugs of beer in Melbourne, graduated to a simple online spreadsheet, slowly spread its tentacles across Australia, now also comes as an app with 75,000…
A Healthy Harvest
Even before the first beers produced with this year’s Bushy Park hops have arrived, it’s looking like a successful harvest for Hop Products Australia. An auction of the first 100kg bale of this year’s…
Craft Brewers Conference '14
The man who brewed the very first craft beer in Australia, founded the original Matilda Bay and was a founder of Little Creatures (as well as building BridgePort in the US) will give a keynote speech at…
Frankenstein of Bickley
Bottleshops with growler filling stations are wonderful things, and not just because they allow us to drink fresh, draught beer in the comfort of our own homes. They also offer an extra point of sale for…
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Good Beer Week '14 Is Go!
Tickets are now on sale for Australia’s leading celebration of the best of the local and international beer world. The official program for Good Beer Week 2014 went live this morning. The fourth…
Fill Yer Boots
It takes little more than a cursory glance around the room at an industry event – or perhaps a quick game of "count the beards" – to realise the beer world is rather dominated by males. But, ever so…
150 Great Australian Beers: Your Guide to Craft Beer and Beyond
Crafty Pint founder James Smith has written a book on Australian beer. 150 Great Australian Beers: Your Guide to Craft Beer and Beyond is published by Hardie Grant and will be on shelves at good book…
The Circle Of Hops
The sense of community within the craft beer world, both in Australia and elsewhere, is one of its most remarkable aspects. There is a willingness among businesses within the industry to share knowledge…
Going Public
Almost a year ago to the day, we were sent a tweet from someone who had spotted a sign on the wall of a warehouse in Croydon. The sign read “The Public Brewery” and led to a few responses hoping that…
The 17
The addition of Barossa Valley Brewing, Cromer Cellars and Embassy Craft Beer Bar to The Crafty Pint’s directories of craft beer awesomeness in the past few days suggest it’s time we did another…
Turning Japanese
One of a growing number of new brewing companies to hit the ground running in Australia in the past 12 months was Melbourne-based Monster Mash. The beery wing of the enterprise that had previously launched…
Craft Beer Rising 2014
The first Craft Beer Rising is a wrap. And, if the feedback we’ve received directly and the noise on social media at the weekend is anything to go by, it seems the idea was embraced far and wide.…
Time To Rise Up!
With less than 24 hours to go until the first Craft Beer Rising kicks off across Australia, there’s little left to be said. Thanks to all of the brewers and venue owners across the country who have…
TransPacific Thunder Nuts
When he began exploring the idea of launching a microbrewery in Australia, Thunder Road founder Philip Withers spent several weeks on the road in the USA checking out a quite phenomenal number of breweries…
Here Come The Nomads
Over the past few years, Australia has welcomed an increasing number of guests from the international beer community. Whether it’s for celebrations like Good Beer Week or to judge in competitions like…
The Saint Comes Riding In
Anyone that has visited Hobart in the past year or two will be aware that the craft beer scene in the city has really come alive. Its annual Tasmanian International Beer Fest is one of the largest and…
Boomtime In Brewsvegas
The beer scene in Brisbane is unrecognisable from just a couple of years ago. First, a wave of new craft beer-supporting venues opened up to give locals an alternative, and more recently they have been…
Will Shoot For Beer
There’s little more than two weeks now until the inaugural Craft Beer Rising. Already, more than 70 events have been registered by breweries and venues across the country, with each of the six states…
Brewing Shenanigans
In the past few years, as the Australian craft beer movement has grown upward, outward and onward in every direction, one of the significant contributors to that growth has been the opening of more craft…
This Is Real
In next to no time, the Young Henrys crew has established itself as one of Australia’s most creative and exciting young breweries as well as ingratiating themselves with seemingly every drinker, venues,…
All Tonkers & Tweakers
After a successful warmup series against England this summer, the 2013 / 2014 cricket season is about to step up another notch or three. No, we’re not talking about the impending T20 internationals…
Brewing In Wine Country
Known for great wine, fine food and local produce, Clare Valley is the perfect region for a growing beer and brewing scene. The newest brewery in the region is the Clare Valley Brewing Company (CVBC),…
Hottest 100 Craft Beers of 2013: The Breakdown
So, for the third year running, the country’s three favourite craft beers, according to The Local Taphouse’s Hottest 100 poll, remain the same. And they’re in the same order as last year too with…
H100 Of 2013 Results
For the sixth year running, The Local Taphouse has run its annual poll to find out which Aussie craft beers have wooed drinkers. With the support of The Crafty Pint and Brews News, the number of votes…
Statement From Temple
TEMPLE: "It is with much regret that we announce the departure of Brewmaster and Co-Founder Ron Feruglio from Temple Brewing Company. Ron has had a huge impact on the brewing world, starting with his…
Two Birds Are Brewing
One of the most popular brewing teams in Australia is bringing brewing to Melbourne’s Inner West. Two Birds Brewing, which was formed by former Mountain Goat head brewer Jayne Lewis (above right) and…
James Halliday Article: Aussies Taking Off
This week we’ve filed our latest feature for James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine – a look at the growing interest in wild and sour beers in Australia. We sought input from Richard Watkins, the…
Smiles From Beer To Beer
There are many ways of starting a new business. You can spend years carefully plotting every step, drawing up reams of business plans, running projections through computers, seeking advice from far and…
The Cask Bar's Calling
Here at Crafty Towers, we love a good pun. Or a bad pun, if we’re perfectly honest. We love real ales too, what with the site’s founder being born in Burton-upon-Trent, home of the pale ale,…
Show Us Yer Bottles
Time for a shout out. As readers of our weekly newsletter will be aware, The Crafty Pint’s founder has been commissioned to write a book on Aussie beer for the publishers of James Halliday’s…
Change Must Come
As the Alabama 3 made abundantly clear in the world’s finest ever Country ‘n’ Western, pro-Communism, techno banger, Mao Tse Tung Said: “Change must come through the barrel of a…
Walking The Walk
“We’ve talked the talk. Now it’s time to walk the walk,” says Jade Flavell as we discuss plans for her forthcoming brewery. It’s a fair point. When any brewery opens people will have high hopes…
Craft Beer Rising is Go!
Registrations are NOW OPEN for anyone wishing to hold an event on our forthcoming national day in celebration of Australian craft beer. On February 22, 2014, The Crafty Pint is inviting brewers, venues,…
Crafty's 50 Of 2013
There’s not long to go now until voting closes for the Hottest 100 Craft Beers of 2013. The deadline for the sixth annual poll run by The Local Taphouses and supported by The Crafty Pint and Brews…
The Monks Of Margs
Walking into the brewhouse at Colonial Brewing in Margaret River there is an unmistakably familiar atmosphere, one that is probably unique considering it’s a relatively new brewing team. Paul Wyman (above…
The Year in Beer 2013: Victoria and Western Australia
For our final look back at the year that was we posed questions to some faces old and new in the country’s two craft beer big hitters, Victoria and WA (although NSW is coming up fast on the rails…). Among…
2014: Shit's Gettin' Real
The first day of the year is always one for looking forward with hope and in high spirits (tempered only slightly by the dustiness that comes with seeing out the previous one with two bottles of Auld Bulgin'…
The Year in Beer 2013: New South Wales & South Australia
The second of our end of year roundups heads to New South Wales and South Australia, where the thoughts and hopes of Crafty Pint’s men in each state are joined by those of the folks behind Newcastle’s…
The Year in Beer 2013: Queensland & Tasmania
It’s been another huge year for craft beer in Australia. But you don’t need us to tell you that – we do it pretty much incessantly day in, day out. So, as in previous years, we thought we’d invite…
Craft Beer Rising!
Who fancies making a load of noise about our wonderful homegrown beer industry? If you’re a reader of The Crafty Pint, the chances are you do. And if you’re a subscriber to our weekly newsletter…
Calling All Beer Media
People have been writing about beer in Australia almost as long as there has been brewing in Australia. But the rise of craft beer and the advent of the internet and its potential for writers to reach…
H100 Craft Beers of 2013
Australia’s longest-running people’s vote for the best craft beers of the year is back for a sixth time. The Hottest 100 Australian Craft Beers of 2013 poll opens today, with beer lovers able…
Best Of The Batch
When Santa skimmed over this year's naughty and nice list – moving swiftly past Lance Armstrong, the global intelligence community and the entire roster of the Essendon football club – he evidently…
Hey, We're The Monkeys
It's not every Sunday that you get to sit down and talk to a pair of monkeys but that's exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago. Alex Poulsen and Ross Terlick are the two new brewers at Cheeky Monkey,…
