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In depth features about beer travel, beer and food, brewers, breweries, beer history, styles and just about everything you wanted to know about beer.

4 Pines’ beer gastronomy Melbourne-style

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May 8, 2013
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Rather taken with last year's Beer Mimics Food concept from Sydney's 4 Pines Brewery, Sam Fletcher checks in on their latest foodie creations...
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Reader letter…and a conversation to be had.

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May 7, 2013
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Brews News reader Simon reckons his home town of Sydney is a bit lacking in beer and beer culture. We're throwing the discussion open to readers to let us know: Is Sydney a beer town or not?
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Australian Small Brewery Update — March 2012

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May 7, 2013
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Queensland As anticipated in my last, the launch of the new Noisy Minor Brewing Company was held in Brisbane recently, on Saturday 23 March. Rather than descend upon the company’s manufacturing premises at Eagle Heights (the former Eagle Heights Brewery), participants were treated to a bus tour of four of Brisbane’s top beer joints,...
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Beer spreads its wings at the Grosvenor Hotel

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May 7, 2013
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Luke Roberston heads along to a beer matching dinner at St Kilda's Grosvenor Hotel to find the good craft beer and food message is spreading...
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Old Salt Sam needs some deck hands.

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May 6, 2013
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Ahoy, me hearties! Last call for tickets to tour the blue with Sam Fuss in a floating treasure chest of beer, BBQ and Black-striped bream in a Good Beer Week high seas adventure.
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Australian Beverage Industry Digest No. 136

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May 6, 2013
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Brewing industry veteran John Harvey's summary of all the beer industry news for the past few weeks.
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Vanilla Girls

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May 5, 2013
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Beer Diva, Kirrily Waldhorn, provides the inside story into the recent Women of Beer brew day at Red Hill Brewery. Watch out for the launch of the Vanilla Milk Stout during Good Beer Week...
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A Brewing Life: George Melville Milne

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May 3, 2013
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Dr Brett Stubbs uncovers the fascinating life of another of Australia's long-forgotten brewing pioneers, this time George Melville Milne an early partner in the Carlton Brewery...
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Gearing up the Killer Sprocket

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May 3, 2013
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James Davidson meets Sean Ryan, the man behind one of Melbourne's latest beer brands, Killer Sprocket...
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Is the grass always greener?

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April 30, 2013
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As one medium-sized wine maker calls for the scrapping of the Wine Equalisation Tax 'rort' for distorting the wine market, it's interesting to ponder whether there is such as thing as uniform good - or the colour of the grass - is determined by where you stand...
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