Artisan Brewing Brewer
Artisan Brewing is a Belgian-style brewer born of a love for an often-neglected element in brewing: yeast. Their journey began in WA’s Great Southern in 2001 when globe-trotting husband and wife, Brian and Julia Fitzgerald, purchased a farm just west of Denmark after falling in love with the stunning…
Hepburn Springs Brewing Co Brewer
The 2020 Indies awards will be memorable for many people for different reasons. For those organising the event itself, the fact it was streamed from a production studio due to COVID ensured it was a far cry from your typical beer awards ceremony. For those winners dealing with lengthy delays on their…
Van Dieman Brewer
A few years back, Will Tatchell departed Tasmania to take up a brewing job at Guinness in Ireland. He never made it, the dream position dashed by an email that landed in his inbox while he travelled through Nepal with his dad telling him the job had gone. Undaunted, he continued on to the UK, sent emails…
Cypher Brewing Brewer
To run a successful brewpub, there are many elements you need to nail, many codes you need to crack. Fortunately, Cypher Brewing Co don’t just have the right name when it comes to craft beer cryptography: they’ve got the right space and plenty of good ideas, too. For one, there’s the neighbourhood…
SURE Brewing Brewer
“Fancy a beer?” “Sure!” “OK if my mate joins us?” “Sure!” Language is a wonderful thing, capable of expressing so many sentiments, alive with nuance, and so essential to pretty much every element of human life we’d be lost without it. And, as four letter words go, “sure”…
King Road Brewing Co Brewer
Given it was founded by Dave and Bev McKee, their children Chad and Selena and their respective partners Maria and Dale, King Road Brewing Co was always going to be a family-friendly venue. Many set out with aspirations to create such a place, however the sheer scale of the brewery, the venue and its…
Mixtape Brewing & Bar Brewer
Eighteen taps, 50-plus wines, arcade games, ancient ales, gluten-reduced beers, board game nights… Mixtape certainly know how to stand out on Sydney’s ever-busier Inner West Ale Trail. Opened in February 2022, the Marrickville brewbar is the brainchild of husband and wife tag team, Jason Newton…
TWØBAYS Brewing Co Brewer
If you’re unfortunate enough to suffer from coeliac disease or lesser forms of gluten intolerance, you’re at least fortunate to be living in an era in which awareness is on the rise and gluten free options are becoming both more commonplace and higher in quality. And, if you’re a beer lover whose…
Westside Ale Works Brewer
Festina tarde is an Italian saying – often associated with the Renaissance but also used by Roman rulers – that translates as "make haste slowly". By all means, hurry, but don't rush things, and take care too. Westside Ale Works' story is one of “hurrying slowly”. It started in 2016, when…
Beerfarm Brewer
The first thing to understand about Beerfarm is that it’s not just a brewery. Yes, there’s heaps of beer flowing out of the brewery's home in the Margaret River region, each year; however, in many ways Beerfarm upends the modern beer business model by focusing just as much on the experience. The…
Five Barrel Brewing Brewer
Wollongong is a changing city. Built on the blue collars of smelting and heavy manufacturing, those industries that bought middle class prosperity are in decline, though hardly dead yet; you can still catch a whiff of them each time the open coal carriages roll through town or the smoke stacks of the…
Jetty Road Brewer
Whether your first encounter with Jetty Road is walking into their highly impressive brewery venue in Dromana or picking up a pack of their beers, complete with its sleek and polished branding, you might well conclude Jetty Road arrived in the world fully formed, the result of calculated planning and…
Lallemand Brewing
Supported by decades of long-standing industry experience, an extensive support network, and strong technical expertise, Lallemand Brewing is perfectly positioned to help breweries achieve their growth and quality goals by offering products, services, and education. Lallemand Brewing’s premium…
The 5th Ingredient (Beer30)
Beer30 by The 5th Ingredient is a fully customisable brewery management software designed to help breweries track data from grain-to-glass. With real-time data, brewers can improve the quality and consistency of their beer and eliminate waste to help brew better beer and drive…
Rainbow Hotel Venue
A classic inner suburban corner pub with a colourful history, Fitzroy's Rainbow Hotel had been getting a little tatty around the edges until the King brothers moved in back in late 2010. You wouldn't know it now, as they wasted little time bringing experience gained from running pubs here and in the…
Whisky and Alement Venue
Melbourne likes to claim plenty in the way of “bests” for itself. Best coffee they say. Best city for live music. Best for sports too. Best statue of an earthworm. Best tram network… The list goes on. And, whether you heartily agree or wish to quibble with such claims, the Victorian…
HPA Venue
HPA is the largest hop grower in Australia, backed by a team of experts in plant breeding, farm operations, customer service and brewing support. Their farms in Southern Tasmania and North-East Victoria have been growing hops for more than 150 years. They grow 90% of Australia’s hops, which is roughly…
The Catfish Venue
Beer, whisky and blues... what more could anyone want in life? How about authentic Philly Cheese Steaks? No worries. OK, there's more to The Catfish than that, but as a basis for success as a beer bar in inner north Melbourne it works just fine for us. Named after the classic 40s song Catfish Blues,…
Cryer Malt Venue
Suppliers of Premium Brewing Ingredients Supplying Australasian craft brewers with quality brewing ingredients for over 30 years, Cryer Malt is dedicated to sourcing the most premium Malt, Hops & Yeast for all brewing enthusiasts. They distribute the best quality locally crafted malts from Barrett…
Near & Far VenueBottleshop
It’s no easy thing to create a bar capable of standing out in an area that is quite literally one of Melbourne’s best known drinking destinations. Yet, when Near & Far opened on Brunswick Street towards the close of 2019, it immediately filled a gap in a suburb famed…
Ellerslie Australia VenueBottleshop
Great Beer Starts Here With a history dating back to the 1930s, Ellerslie Australia is a fourth-generation family company that's proudly Australian-owned. Adding to our heritage as Australia’s largest independent hop grower, we have continued to team up with world renowned producers to offer a comprehensive…
neumaker VenueBottleshop
neumaker provides a unique range of yeasts, nutrients and process aids as well as filtration media and equipment. We have partnered with AEB to bring the most innovative and complete brewing product range to the Australian market including: Ale Yeasts Lager Yeasts Yeasts for Sours Stabilisers…
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…
Urban Alley Brewing Knox Venue
Since opening the doors to their Docklands home in 2018, Urban Alley have helped show how craft beer can find a home in all manner of places and with all manner of audiences. After all, District Docklands might be on the doorstep of Melbourne’s CBD but, at the time, it was better known as…
Page Bottler Bottleshop
We all know the phrase: “You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.” If you were to apply it to Page Bottler, you could argue it should come with a supplementary warning too: “Or after opening the cover.” Not that there’s anything wrong with the bottleshop’s cover, which comes with some…
NZ Hops 2022: Range & Your Mates Beer
And now for something completely different. Or at least two beers following a different path to their comrades in the NZ Hops Great Brew Challenge from a couple of Queensland's most high profile breweries. Range have taken the hop formerly known as Brooklyn, Moutere, and sprinkled it (well, dry-hopped…
NZ Hops 2022: Uraidla & Mountain Culture Beer
In the case of both Adelaide Hills-based Uraidla and Mountain Culture of the Blue Mountains you've got breweries with damn fine reputations when it comes to creating IPAs, even if such beers are just one string to their respective bows. And it's IPAs that both have created for NZ Hops' Great Brew Challenge,…
Local Brewing Co & Burnley Brewing Fruits Of Our Labour: Mango Nectar Sour Beer
The ongoing bread-saving collaboration between Local Brewing Co and Burnley Brewing reached its third iteration in April 2021 with Mango Nectar Sour. The Fruits of Our Labour series utlizes bread destined for the bin, in this case from three separate bakeries, and fresh fruit and like all Local Brewing…
Sauce Brewing Gin-Melon Bush Sour, Experiment 104 & Superdelic (fragilisticexpialidocious) Beer
As the cold world of Stout Season starts to slip away, it is time to proclaim: “Sour Season ahoy! Fill the esky with ice and break out the party shirts!” And **Gin-Melon Bush Sour** looks like one of the most day-for-it sours that has ever soured. Pouring the pale yellow of an old hay bale that is…
NZ Hops 2022: Molly Rose & Sailors Grave Beer
**Scroll down for links to more NZ Hops beers** There's a risk inherent in a project like this – inviting a stack of brewers to create beers showcasing hops first and foremost – that you'll end up with a parade of IPAs. You can also assume that when it comes to Molly Rose they'll follow a different…
CoConspirators Brewing The Neighbour Beer
At the start of October, CoConspirators Brewing asked beer fans to come up with a name for their forthcoming New Zealand IPA, a move we’ve been assured doesn’t mean they’re anywhere near running out of characters to cover their releases. Hundreds of people put their thoughts forward, with The Neighbour…
Inner North South Island Pilsner & Jazzed Up Pale Beer
Inner North Brewing has looked to far-flung lands while keeping things local with these two new releases. Okay, far-flung might be a stretch, given their **South Island Pilsner** is an homage to New Zealand hops. Riwaka takes the lead, backed up by Nelson Sauvin, Wakatu and Wai-iti. Kiwifruit is a dominant…
Slipstream Brewing Thrill Seeker NZ IPA 2024 Beer
In 2023, Slipstream collaborated with NZ Hops to make an IPA full of… well, NZ hops. That first Thrill Seeker was all about the tropicals and stonefruit of Nectaron, Nelson Sauvin and Waimea. It seems Slipstream couldn’t stay away, so they’ve made another version of Thrill Seeker, this time…
Otherside NZ Liner, DDH Dip Pale & Shift Brewers Hazy NZIPA Beer
The House of Liners is Otherside's series of double IPAs, which in February 2022 welcomes a New Zealand edition to the stage, part of a growing affinity with hops from across The Ditch, as will become clear below. For now, Riwaka and Nectaron offer Savvy B's passionfruit with juicy stone fruit in support,…
Blasta Brewing Over The Way NZ IPA Beer
Over the second half of 2022, Blasta have dabbled within the world of NZ IPAs, but this wider canned release is where they really showcase their affection for the style. And, in a move that will be pleasing to many, they’ve done so with a beer that sits at a sessionable level, even though Over The…
Our Man In NZ: The Game Changer News
The ultimate affirmation for many brewers is picking up an award for their beer. In this part of the world, the Australian International Beer Awards and The Indies in Australia;or the Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards enjoy the highest profile. Yet, as Our Man In NZ Jono Galuszka writes,…
Our Man In NZ: Craftwork Brewery News
From the exquisite suits and tweed to serving Belgian-inspired sour beer via English real ale handpumps, Lee-Ann Scotti and Michael O’Brien of Craftwork Brewery have always seemed a crow left of the murder that is the New Zealand brewing industry. A visit to their brewery in Oamaru by Our Man…
Our Man In NZ: Brewpubs News
Brewpubs are popping up all over in New Zealand, with three set to open in a single 200 metre area of Wellington in the next year alone. It's also a model that's growing in popularity in Australia – and often cited as one of few viable means of succeeding as a craft brewer on these shores. Here, Our…
Our Man In NZ: The Yeast Starters News
Yeast. It is arguably beer’s most important ingredient; without it, beer would not exist. But brewers’ options for sourcing high quality pitches of liquid yeast are almost nil in New Zealand. Now, however, the duo behind Froth Technologies are hoping to change that. When he lined up…
Our Man In NZ: Liberty Brewing News
Liberty Brewing Company is one of the brightest stars in the New Zealand beer scene, earning a cult following thanks to beers like Prohibition Porter and C!tra. Demand is high on both sides of the Tasman Sea, with the decision to start brewing some Liberty beers at Hawkers in Melbourne for the Australian…
Our Man In NZ: Kiwi Hops News
Even if you have never had New Zealand brewed beer, you likely would have tasted the essence of the place when drinking brews from giants like BrewDog, Sierra Nevada and Green Flash. The country’s hops are famed across the world for their flavours and aromas, described as anything from "tropical fruit…
Our Man In NZ: Beer Camp Heads South News
New Zealand’s biggest beer festival Beervana is to host Sierra Nevada’s Beer Camp festival in a Southern Hemisphere exclusive. With fellow American big hitter Lagunitas, now part of the Heineken empire, also pouring in the country’s bars, there’s an ever-increasing presence f US breweries in…
Our Man in NZ: Moa's Changing Fortunes News
Our new Kiwi correspondent, Jono Galuszka, kicks off his monthly feature series by sitting down with one of the most controversial figures in New Zealand beer. Geoff Ross, CEO of Moa Brewing Company, has led the brewery through brand revamps, listing on the NZ stock exchange and a fair…
Our Man In NZ: Spontaneity News
If there is one thing New Zealanders and Australians have in common, it is sticking it to The Man. It is no coincidence cult movie The Castle is loved by people on both sides of the Tasman. But it's likely few people know about Kapiti Island’s own little piece of rebellion, or what it has…
Our Man In NZ: ParrotDog Surfs On News
The biggest day of your life. It may be getting married, buying your first home or being hired for your dream job. For Matt Warner, one of the three Matts who founded ParrotDog, he can't pick between two: the day the Wellington company put down its first contract brew or the day they moved into their…
Our Man In NZ: Introducing Jono Galuszka News
Like many Kiwis, Jono Galuszka’s first forays into beer were of the cheap, cold and tasteless kind during his university days. Things have changed significantly since, with Jono named New Zealand Beer Writer of the Year in 2015, and now joining the Crafty Pint team as our New Zealand writer. Before…
Beer Travel: Nelson-Tasman News
While Wellington claims to be New Zealand’s "craft beer capital" and cities like Christchurch and Auckland occasionally stake a claim for the title, the Nelson/Tasman area feels like its home. Sprawling across the top of the South Island, the area is home to one of the most diverse range of breweries…
Beer Travel: NZ Tiki Tour IV Wine Country News
The Rimutaka Hill Road is a real bastard. When you look at it on a map, its winding route is like viewing a seismograph at the point when an earthquake hits, the solid line suddenly and rapidly jolting up, down and even back on itself. It’s steep too. When the railway first began running up this way…
Beer Travel: NZ Tiki Tour I Coromandel News
Māori call the island Te-Ika-a-Māui: "the Fish of Māui". Māui was a a mythological figure who, among many incredible feats, hauled this piece of land up from the ocean. When you look at a map of New Zealand it does have the rough outline of a stingray caught in an evasive turn, so perhaps…
Beer Travel: NZ Tiki Tour III Greater Wellington News
Waikanae is a nice place. It’s quiet, close to the beach and lush with bush. Perhaps that’s why so many people come here to die. There’s nothing morbid about that. It really is nice. It just happens to have a lot of retirement villages. But, equally, it has been, and is increasingly, an…
Craft Beer Heroes: Doug Donelan News
Doug Donelan’s impact on the brewing scene extends well beyond his country of birth, Australia, and the one he now calls home, New Zealand. He made his way in the brewing world working for Chuck Hahn, going on to be the first head brewer at Sydney’s Malt Shovel Brewery, before becoming the…
Episode 015: From Beer Writing To The Brewhouse – Building A Local Brewpub In NZ News
In Episode 015 of The Crafty Pint Podcast we head overseas for the first time. Our destination is a tiny brewery most people won't have heard of, where we're joined by a guest with whom many will be very familiar. The tiny brewery is Shortjaw Brewing, located in Westport: a town on the sparsely-populated…
Beer Travel: Auckland News
Despite being New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland has always trailed Wellington and Christchurch when it comes to the title of the country’s best place to be a beer drinker. But the past few years, and an initiative launched in the past few months, has the place known as the City of Sails quickly…
Behind The Hottest 100 Kiwi Beers Of 2018 News
The results of the third GABS Hottest 100 Kiwi Beers were announced at the weekend. Our Man In NZ, Jono Galuszka, spoke to some of the people making the stories in this year's poll. McLeod's The scent of hazy hoppy things has truly entranced New Zealand beer drinkers, with the broad style making…
Looking After The Lake, Man News
New Zealand's Lakeman Brewing took out the Supreme Beer Award at the recent New World Beer & Cider Awards with their Primate Pilsner. Here, Pursuit of Hoppiness editor Michael Donaldson tracks their incredible decade-long journey from absolute beginner to award-winner. Sitting outside the…
One Drop Christmas Smash at Far Side Beers Event
While spending Christmas around the dinner table with family is great and all, chances are you'd happily trade it all in for a weekend at Far Side Beers stuffing your face with burgers and chucking down a few glasses of delicious One Drop beer. The good news? You've…