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Brendan Varis, brewer at Western Australia’s multi-award winning Feral Brewery has been a very busy man. In the last week he has put three new beers on tap at his Swan Valley brewery and is ‘expecting’ a fourth. If you’re quick you will be able to get into the brewery and try the following:...
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Sydney’s Malt Shovel Brewery is set to release the latest beer under its Mad Brewers banner with the release of its Orchard Ale. The new beer follows the previous releases under the same label including a Raspberry Wheat Beer and Pepperberry Winter Ale in 2008 and last year’s Ten 20 Commemorative Ale which celebrated...
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Little Creatures Pale Ale is Australia's best craft beer according to an online poll conducted by The Local Taphouse to celebrate Australia Day.
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The reaction to Coopers Clear seems to have been, as expected, underwhelming amongst those who drink Coopers’ traditional offerings. On 4BC Radio’s Beer Talk program, Australian Brews News editor, Matt Kirkegaard, spoke with Coopers’ Chairman and Marketing Director Glenn Cooper to find out whether Coopers has sold out. No matter what you think of...
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Hot on the heels of the VB Chip being launched in Australia, the beer itself has been launched in India. VB was launched at a function in New Delhi yesterday by The Australian Trade Commission in the lead-up to the Australia Day. The beer will be available in 375 ml bottles and cans and...
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Little Creatures are running a little hopping experiment in which they have dry-hopped two 50L kegs of Rogers’ — each with a different Tasmanian Hop Variety. The first keg has been dry-hopped with Topaz — a very high bitterness hop (16.5%AA for those brewing-orientated people) with a lovely aroma. The second keg is dry-hopped...
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Last year VB rebranded itself, “The dinking beer”. Now, to complement the beer it has launched “The drinking chip” described as “the best hot chips made for the best cold beer.” The snack was created to compliment a chilled VB, and thus, entice beer drinkers to keep on chugging. The spicy chips were created...
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It may not be the Hills Hoist, a garage roller door, the Bionic Ear or the Two-Stroke Lawn Mower, but the brewers at Murray’s at Port Stephens are pretty proud of what they call Australia’s latest ‘invention’ – a Flemish Summer Ale (known affectionately as Murray’s Endless Summer), being released in NSW and Victoria...
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As we watch the growing hysteria around alcohol these days, it would be easy to think that we are in a unique point in history. That we aren’t was graphically illustrated when this picture (right) lobbed in my inbox recently. I was fascinated and started digging to find out a little more. It turns...
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Update 9÷3÷12 …and it finally happened. There has been interesting speculation in The Age that Fosters could lose the Corona and Stella licences. One of the the most incisive ideas in this article is tucked away right at the very end: “When Foster’s releases its interim results next month it will show that the...
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