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The Ultimate Beer Week
Here at Crafty Towers, we’re pretty spoiled when it comes to all things beer-related. The beer fridge is almost always overflowing with awesome beers, we get to attend a bunch of cool events around…
Beer Events: Bonkers Brewer Takes Over
We received a message from our newly anointed resident “beer dork” yesterday afternoon announcing he was thinking of calling into the Bacchus Brewing tap takeover at The Alehouse Project. Chris…
Drinking In Style: Saisons
Want to know a little more about the beers you love? Then read on, as Crafty’s resident “beer dork” Chris Brady (his words, not ours) kicks off what will be regular features looking at the beers of the world. Kicking it off is a look at saisons.
Drinking In Style
As long term readers of The Crafty Pint will know, we try and keep things as light and breezy as we can. Where possible, we avoid getting too technical or nerdy (although there are those that argue the…
Mashed On The Inside
The second beer from the Stone & Wood side project, The Mash Collective, is out and about on taps and in bottles. It brought together an eclectic collection of people to create the beer, Aureus Chrysalis:…
Good IPA Week
The original Good Beer Week was sparked by a desire to create a series of events for beer lovers around the 2011 Australian International Beer Awards Gala Dinner, which was bringing its annual influx of…
Beer Travel: Brothers In Beer
Beer reps and Beer Snobs Dan Hampton and Tim Fishwick recently embarked on a road trip from Sydney to Brisbane, calling in on breweries along the way. There, they gathered beers to be presented at an event…
Meet Beersine
Imagine a salt beef bagel; one made with beef that has been marinating for 12 hours in pale ale, chilli and malt. Sounds good, doesn't it?Now imagine bacon, but not just any bacon; this one is made from…
Enter The Pig Pen
To mark its 20th anniversary last year, the organisers of the Australian International Beer Awards commissioned a commemorative beer. The Collaborator from WA’s Feral and Victorian brewery 2 Brothers…
Judge For Yourself
What do Alistair Hook, Kjetil Jikiun (above), Luke Nicholas and Richard Emerson have in common? Apart from the fact they’re brewers at Meantime, Nøgne Ø, Epic and Emerson’s respectively, that is. The…
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The Hangman Cometh
Beer news junkies might recall that midway through last year there was a little bit of press for the Rocks Brewing Company in one of Sydney’s major daily newspapers. And although it was a fairly brief…
Crafty Pint Films: Craft Beer In Australia
By the time this article appears on The Crafty Pint, the site’s founder will have delivered his seminar to the Craft Brewers Conference in Washington DC. The presentation that the guys running the…
The First Crusade
A few months ago, The Crafty Pint caught up with two guys who were in the initial stages of embarking on what they hoped would become a beer-themed TV show for Channel 31. Dan Hanna and Mark Iscaro had…
Beer Travel: Hops Spring Eternal
Big brewer: bad; craft brewer: good. It's a hoary old perception and one to which no thoughtful beer drinker would give any credence. Just because beer brand X is ultimately owned by brewing giant Y, it…
House Of Cards
People have tried various means of educating people about beer. You’ll find tasting notes on the bars of breweries, menus with suggested food and beer pairings, posters outlining the various beer families,…
Coming To America
Towards the end of last year, The Crafty Pint’s founder received an email from the guys responsible for the US Brewers Association Export Development Program. Those who attended Good Beer Week last…
Growing The Grain
When we spoke to Corey Crooks he was amidst a marathon session with a heat gun and scraper, peeling what he reckons was "about 200 layers of paint" off some enormous wooden columns at an old grain store…
GBW 2013 On Sale Now
The full program for Good Beer Week 2013 is live and online now. You can head here to check out what lies in store from May 18 to 26 and also, from 9am, purchase tickets to your chosen events. With more…
Brewer Abroad! Nick at Nøgne Ø Pt II
A few weeks back we ran an article by Holgate brewer Nick Rhodes, who had not long touched down in Norway to commence a brewing internship with Nøgne Ø. It was part of a brewer exchange that has seen…
Biggest Awards Yet
The Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) was already the second largest awards of its kind in the world, and this year has become bigger still with a new record number of entries. Reflecting beer’s…
Getting Blind With Crafty: IPAs
After a couple of lager-centric panels to kick off what are now monthly Blind Tasting Panels, the third showdown saw a sharp shift in direction into the beer style that is probably closest to the hearts…
GBW 2013: See The Light
Nine weeks tomorrow, the third Good Beer Week will kick off with a series of awesome events that herald nine days of dinners, tastings, tours, masterclasses, new brews, live brews, interstate guests, international…
Edging Ahead
A few weeks ago we brought you news of the collaborative brewing venture that had been kickstarted by Australia’s Northdown Craft Beer and Danish gypsy brewer Christian Skovdal Andersen of Beer Here.…
Show Us Yer Hops
As regular readers of this site will be well aware, the Australian hop industry has been going through very exciting times in the past few years. In particular, Hop Products Australia has been sending…
Bendigo's Beer Boom
Back in June 2011, The Crafty Pint ran a story about the launch of a new group dedicated to promoting craft beer in its hometown. Bendigo Beer was the brainchild of a pair of beer loving locals, who had…
Back Where It All Began
There are some interesting back stories in the Australian craft beer world. We’ve got a classical pianist, former winemakers, a history professor, a stack of corporates that saw the light and even one…
Are You Enthusiastic?
Two politicians who have been actively promoting the cause of small brewers in Australia in recent years have thrown their weight behind a new campaign from the Craft Beer Industry Association (CBIA).…
Crafty Snaps: Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2013 Artisan Market at Como House
On its opening weekend, the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival took over the rather spectacular grounds of Melbourne’s Como House. It was the site for the 2013 Put Victoria on Your Table Artisan…
Joker In The Pack
A few weeks ago, we noted a little hubbub in the online beer world about a new release from a brewing company we’d not heard of before. Our lack of knowledge was excusable, however, as it turned out…
James Halliday Article: On The Hop
This week sees the launch of the eighth edition of James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine, in which we have an article looking at the Australian craft beer industry’s position in the wider world.…
Plucky Brewers
There's a strange wind about to blow across the land. But this isn't some bluster conjured up by Mother Nature. This is manmade, born of years of frustration finally being released in an almighty sigh…
Keep On Dropping
Across Australia, recent months have seen some of the best-known craft breweries celebrate significant milestones. Feral turned 10. Mountain Goat reached 15. Holgate is about to release its 1000th brew,…
Beer Travel: The South West Craft Beer Festival
It was a very beery weekend here in the South West, more so than usual for an area with more microbreweries than anywhere else in the country, as thousands of craft beer drinkers descended on 3 Oceans…
Old and New
It’s a coming together of old and new – not to mention a little bit of old dog learning new tricks – as we get around to expanding the Crafty Pint family once more. Today sees us add nine more brewery…
Bring On The Brits
As the Australian craft beer scene has caught fire and we’ve seen incredible and innovative beers landing here from the US, Scandinavia, Italy, Japan and New Zealand, there’s been a temptation to feel…
GABS Goes Global
When the concept was first launched two years and one day ago, the Great Australian Beer Spectapular (as it was back then) featured 20 new, unique beers being tapped for the first time at The Local Taphouses…
Getting Blind With Crafty: Pilsners
The Crafty Pint’s blind tasting panels are up and running for 2013. The first took place late last year with a panel focused mainly on premium lagers, after we were contacted by Hahn and Malt Shovel…
Brewer Abroad! Nick at Nøgne Ø Pt I
A week ago, Nick Rhodes from Holgate boarded a plane in Melbourne bound for Norway. Coming the other way was Norwegian brewer Ingrid Skistad from Nøgne Ø. We brought you the story behind their brewer…
Good Beer Week Steps Up
The Crafty Pint is hanging with the big boys now⦠Good Beer Week has announced that its print and radio media partners for 2013 will be Time Out and 3RRR. For the first two years of the festival,…
The Cavaliers Are Coming
Next month’s Fed Square Microbreweries Showcase will mark exactly two years since Melbourne’s Cavalier Brewing first announced themselves to the world. All being well, it will also mark the release…
Making Cents
It’s amazing what you can find down the back of the sofa. And even more amazing what you can find when you set fire to a sofa! A couple of years back, three mates who had been homebrewing together since…
Beer Travel: Great Australian Beer Festival, Geelong
Victoria’s summer of beer festivals continued at the weekend with the arrival of the inaugural Great Australian Beer Festival. Taking over much of the Geelong Racecourse, it brought together brewers…
A Taste of Italy
The past year has seen a huge rise in the amount of Italian craft beer arriving in Australia. Where once there was just a handful of the country’s better beers available, since the team at Birra Italiana…
Brewer Exchange
Earlier this month, the Aurora Borealis arrived Down Under. At the same time, the Aurora Australis landed in Norway. The two are beers created on either side of the globe as part of a joint venture between…
Green Beacon Fires Up
With floodwaters rising, there wasn’t much in the way of good news coming out of Queensland last week. But in a corner of Teneriffe, the situation was a whole lot brighter as the Australian craft beer…
Clear As Mud?
On Friday afternoon, while most of us were preparing for the long Australia Day weekend, one man found himself unwittingly in something of a funk. The cause of said funk was an email that had landed in…
H100 of 2012 Countdown
So who will be raising their glass the highest this Australia Day? Will Brad, Jamie, Ross and their ever-expanding team at Stone & Wood make it two in a row for their all-conquering Pacific Ale? Can…
Hop Hog Is Hottest!
Phew! We don’t have to eat our hat after all… A couple of weeks back, as votes were coming in for this year’s Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers of 2012, we responded to a tweet with something along…
The Hottest 100 of 2012 Analysed
By now, you’ll have had time to take in the latest Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll results. Congratulations to everyone that featured, in particular the team at Swan Valley’s Feral Brewing for…
Going with the Grain
Newcastle punches above its weight when it comes to providing the Australian craft beer world with quality brewers. There’s Shawn Sherlock at Murray’s, Keith Grice at nearby Potters in the Hunter Valley,…
