Events

If you love beer, and we mean real German bier, you can’t afford to miss Hopfest, coming this March to Sydney’s iconic Löwenbräu. Hopfest will have you savouring your beer, eating the best of German food and dancing to ‘oom-pah’ bands all through March. The festively decked out venue will see events held all...
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As part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, the Victorian women of beer, will be taking beer to the stage to share beer secrets and finer points of beer appreciation...
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With only days to go, Australia’s most unique beer festival reveals the not-to-be-missed beer lineup. Held at the the multi-award winning Local Taphouse, the beers to be featured include: Original Fassbier — Kellerbier matured on roasted oak chips (Last Drop, WA, 4.6%) Cucumber Sandwich — Summer Ale (Mountain Goat, VIC, 4.2%) kb — Kriek Berliner Weisse served through morello cherries (Wig & Pen,...
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Entries for the annual Australian International Beer Awards close this Friday, 21 January 2011 and organisers are encouraging breweries from across the globe to enter this year’s competition. As the largest showcase of beer and brewing excellence in the Asia Pacific region, the truly international AIBA received more than 1,170 entries from around the...
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Australia’s most unique beer festival will also now be raising funds for the Red Cross Queensland Flood Appeal. The Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular will take place in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday February 12th at The Local Taphouses, Australia’s most awarded* specialist beer venues. Twenty-two of the best craft breweries from around Australia are...
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Last days to vote in the Local Taphouse Hottest 100...make your vote count!
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Bridge Road Brewers has joined two other local Beechworth businesses to develop the local epicurean trade by purchasing a set of ‘town bikes’ for use by visitors to the town. The brewery joins specialty foodstore the Larder and Pennyweight Wines have set up the first two of what will eventually be four town bikes. The initiative...
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Mornington Peninsula-based Red Hill Brewery have announced a series of special tastings in January featuring a stash of vintage seasonal brews. The Saturday night events that will run through January will enable beer lovers to get your hands on the brewer’s secret stash of previous vintages of their seasonal brews. Each event starts with...
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The ten lucky winners have been advised, and now we know what beers we’re going to sample. Stone Brewing’s Ben Lee advises that the winners of places to the Fresh Stone event will next Thursday be trying fresh samples of: Lucky Bastard 10−10−10 Vertical Epic 2010 Imperial Russian Stout Stone Smoked Porter Ruination IPA...
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The Local Taphouse has announced the line-up for its next Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular. In what will arguably be Australia’s most unique beer festival, 22 Australian microbreweries have been invited to create a one-off specialty beer just for the occasion. The 22 Participant Breweries are: QLD – Burleigh Brewing Co. NSW – Murrays, 4 Pines, Stone & Wood,...
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