Breweries

Rick Besserdin makes another stop on the High Country beer trail, this time in historic Beechworth, where he stops by Bridge Road Brewery for a beer and a pretzel...
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In another dispatch from Victoria's High Country, Rick Besserdin drops by Bright Brewery to find the sort of blowhard that never bores you at the pub...
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In 2006 Ron and Renata Feruglio created Temple Brewing Company. Without a commercial brewery of their own, they operated as gypsy brewers by producing three core beers plus a couple of special releases at other people’s microbreweries across Victoria. Those three beers — a pale ale, ESB and saison — quickly gained a reputation as high quality interpretations...
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Rick Besserdin heads to Victoria's High Country and has a beer with Sweetwater Brewery's Peter Hull.
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I saw it said the other day that Australian craft brewers are being squeezed out of the market resulting in less choice for consumers and a dwindling local beer industry. Yet, I can’t remember a year in which more independent craft breweries opened or when there was more variety on tap and in bottle...
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Driving along about five kilometres of dirt road through the township of Taminick, we come to a sign that reads Booth’s Taminick Cellars. It is here that we will find Victoria’s latest brewery, Black Dog. It is the creation of fourth generation winemaker, James Booth. We park near a beautiful old stone building that has...
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Located on the banks of the Goulburn River, where it enters Eildon Lake, is the picturesque Jamieson Brewery. Terri Marsden is the new owner of the brewery and pub after the purchase was completed a couple of weeks ago, at the end of November 2011. Jeff Whyte, the former owner and brewer, who gained...
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Coopers’ state-of-the-art brewery at Regency Park in Adelaide celebrates its 10th anniversary today (Monday, November 21). However, it’s business as usual on site as the company prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary next year. The Regency Park brewery was officially opened by Premier Rob Kerin on November 21, 2001, to replace the old brewery at Leabrook where...
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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 development....
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Coopers is Australia’s largest independent brewery. Still run by members of the Cooper family, they have held their own through many difficult periods for almost 150 years. Most of their beers are ales, brewed with the same care and yeast that was used over a century ago. As the world’s largest exporter of home brew...
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