Tweet New South Wales After operating a small (250-litre) pilot brewery at Rydalmere since mid-year, Riverside Brewing Company have recently moved to larger premises at North Parramatta. The company has also installed a larger 2,000-litre brewery, obtained from Mountain Goat in Melbourne, who have themselves recently up-sized (see below). Riverside will officially launch its products...
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Tweet I still have fond memories of the first Hobart Beerfest, held in November 2006. It was a low-key and informal event, as far as such things can be, held outdoors in Mawson Place behind the Lark Distillery. The Beerfest has grown greatly since then, becoming a two-day event in 2009, and the sixth...
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Tweet As I write, several new breweries around the country are close to opening. I have in mind Riverside in Sydney, Casella at Griffith (NSW), Temple and Black Dog in Victoria near Glenrowan, McLaren Vale in South Australia, Morrison in Tasmania and Cheeky Monkey and Boston in Western Australia, all in the late stages of...
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Tweet Sydney turned on a weekend of splendidly warm and dry weather at the end of October for the 7th annual two-day Australian Hotel Beer Festival. Held as usual at the Australian Hotel in the Rocks area of the city, this year the section of Gloucester Street adjoining the lower side of the pub...
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In light of Crown Lager's omission of cane sugar from its marketing, Dr Brett Stubbs takes a look at the history of cane sugar as an ingredient in beer in Australia.
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Tweet Queensland Bacchus Brewing Co., an all-grain brew-on-premises shop at Capalaba, in Brisbane’s south-eastern suburbs, has lately been selling some of its beer through the retail trade in Brisbane and Ipswich. Bacchus was started in 2004 by Glenn Pope with Darren Poyser, who had been the brewer since 1999 at Auroras Microbrewery in central...
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Dr Brett Stubbs looks at all the openings, closings, comings and goings at Australia's small breweries...
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Brett Stubbs looks at all the openings, closings, comings and goings at Australia's small breweries...
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Dr Brett Stubbs looks at all that has been opening and closing in the world of beer over the last two months...
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The Poms are worried that their glass sizes are becoming more Australian. Brewing historian Dr Brett Stubbs reassures them they can cope with change with the history of New South Wales beer glass sizes.
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