Events

Good Beer Week is back! The beer festival that took Melbourne by storm in 2011 is set to return bigger and better in 2012. Over eight days in May, venues and breweries across Melbourne and Victoria will play host to a wide range of amazing events in celebration of quality beer and the people that...
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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 our...
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Dates have been confirmed for the next Barley’s Angels tastings for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Each event will feature Ninkasi’s Angel, the first all-female collaboration brew in the Southern Hemisphere, and also Two Birds Golden Ale, brewed by former Mountain Goat Brewer, Jayne Lewis. Other beers to be confirmed but of course, each will...
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This month Wellington’s Hashigo Zake has the pleasure of hosting a legend of the worldwide explosion in craft beer on a whirlwind tour of New Zealand. Kjetil Jikiun is the founder and head brewer of the Nøgne Ø brewery in Grimstad, Norway. In its short history Nøgne Ø has become celebrated in the world...
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Tasmania’s Examiner newspaper is reporting that Tasmanian microbrewers are disappointed over a lack of representation at local food event Festivale. The event organiser’s pourage rights contract with James Boag’s stipulates only four craft breweries can be involved in the event. Local brewers, headed by Tasmanian Microbrewers Association president and Moo Brew head brewer Owen Johnston,...
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Calling all Western Australian boutique Beer Lovers! The inaugural WA Craft Beer Showcase kicks off on the 25th of November for two whole days of beer tasting, education and fun. Come down to the picturesque Urban Orchard where 19 of Western Australian’s finest boutique Breweries from Broome to the South West will be on show....
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Sydney turned on a weekend of splendidly warm and dry weather at the end of October for the 7th annual two-day Australian Hotel Beer Festival. Held as usual at the Australian Hotel in the Rocks area of the city, this year the section of Gloucester Street adjoining the lower side of the pub was...
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The fine citizens of Brisbane tend to look askance at the inhabitants of Ipswich, 40 minutes drive to the west of the state capital. However, while the residents of BrisVegas may pat themselves on the back for their coffee shops and bistros, it’s a dedicated band of Ippy homebrewers who are increasingly responsible for moving...
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You can be fairly sure that a rather comfortably warm Melbourne Spring afternoon had something to do with the size of the surging throng that descended upon The Atrium at Federation Square on Wednesday last week but it can’t be the only reason. For some six years now the biannual event has grown steadily...
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The Victorian Microbrewery Showcase is well established as a forum for spreading the good word of good beer to those already drinking the amber nectar and who wish to expand the horizons of knowledge and experience. It has done so since 2006 and has done it well. But what of those folk who lurk furtively...
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