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Tweet The reviews from last week’s Ballarat Beer Festival have been pretty good. Still, the organisers want to make it better and have created a survey to get patron’s feedback on how they can make it even better next year. Are you one of the more than 6000 who went? Let them know what you...
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Tweet Well, as we look back on yesterday’s Australia Day festivities we can say, “what a day beer fans!” The Local Taphouse’s Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers was announced in a rolling and excitement building process yesterday. With the first 90 beers names in batches of ten, the top ten were rolled out one at...
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Tweet Thanks to all who voted in the Local Taphouse Hottest 100 for 2012. The results will be released below in blocks of 10, up to the top 10. From there they’ll be released one at a time online, as well as announced live in both Melbourne and Sydney venues, to coincide with the Triple...
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Tweet Only 3 more days of voting left in the Taphouse Hottest 100 Australian beers and the voting is very, very close. Even with the shorter voting period this year, numbers are right up there which shows the depth of beery love out there. What type of voter are you? Andrew Mitchell, the mastermind behind the...
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Tweet Yes, it’s back – the Hottest 100 Australian Craft Beers poll returns for a fourth run, giving you the chance to tell us which beers amazed you in 2011. Since its launch by The Local Taphouse in 2008, the annual poll has doubled in size each year – in keeping with the rapid growth in popularity of craft...
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Tweet “Why isn’t there a television show about beer?” It’s one of the most often asked questions amongst beer lovers overwhelmed with television shows about wine, cheese and cooking. One of the prime reasons for a lack of good beer on our screens is that there is still little demand for good beer in our...
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Australian Brews News takes a look at the year in beer we have had, including the most viewed stories of the year.
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Tweet The winner of Australia’s first ever beer writing bursary has been announced. The bursary has been awarded to Sam Fletcher from Sydney. Bursary sponsor, Tim Lord from Hop Products Australia, said he was impressed with all of the entries and found it very hard to separate the top few. “In the end Sam was a...
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Tweet The rise in the number of beer festivals on the calendar is a very positive sign for the continued growth of good beer — and I write having just returned from the highly successful Newcastle Craft Beer Week and the excellent Warners at the Bay festival. While beer festivals appeal to the hard-core beer lover...
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Tweet It sounds as though Newcastle Craft Beer Week is close to already being counted as a success, with many events sold out. We have been advised that tickets are still available for a couple though… Hotel Delany Wednesday 23rd 7pm – Coopers – The Art of Brewing Simon Fahey will be hosting the art of brewing in...
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