Posts Tagged ‘ Brisbane ’

In the not so recent past there has been articles about the decline of and dearth of craft beer in Brisbane. For a time that was true. After the Platform bar gave up on the Craft Beer community there was little left for beer lovers in Brisbane. Recently this has all changed and the...
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Good beer in Brisbane is just so hot right now, or so it seems with no fewer than half a dozen quality watering holes opening in the past few months, and with at least one city-based brew pub slated to open in the first half of the year. Now, Brisbane beer lovers can spend...
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Regular readers of beer websites such as this would have noticed over the last few months that Brisbane is actually starting to register in the national beer consciousness. The state now has some excellent independent breweries and brewing companies, and a growing band of venues keen to showcase the best beer from both near...
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The craft beer insurgency in Brisbane continues to grow strength as the inner-city beer Guerrilla’s continue to fight the good fight for great beer. Now another specialty beer bar has opened in the shadow of Queensland’s iconic XXXX Brewery sign. The Scratch has been set up by three beer loving blokes wanting to celebrate...
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I’m sure I received an invitation to the ‘launch’ of the 4 Heart’s Brewing’s Summer Wheat back in October, so we might have to call this the Brisbane Launch…even so, I have tried the beer and it is perfect for a Brisbane summer so they’ll be no quibbles here. 4 Hearts is the baby...
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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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I attended my first ‘formal’ beer matching dinner a few nights ago – an event full of fun, fellowship, food, and of course plenty of fine beers. The setting, Decks Seafood Restaurant on the tranquil South Bank of Brisbane, livened up by sixty or so beer appreciating patrons after a full on day of brewing lectures...
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Media Release The Inaugural Queensland Homebrewing Conference will be held in Brisbane on Saturday, 5 November 2011. The conference is a one day event based at the Southbank Institute of Technology, preceded by welcome drinks on Friday night and followed by a Beer and Food Matching Dinner on Saturday evening. We are very excited to...
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We recently mentioned the product knowledge of the staff at the Bavarian Bier Café in Brisbane. It’s pretty unlikely that the QHA awards dug this deeply into that aspect of bar service in judging these awards (though hopefully one day state hospitality associations will actually consider knowing something about beer as being a valuable...
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The Bavarian Bier Cafes don’t seem to draw much attention from the craft beer set and sometimes I don’t understand why. I’ve been spending a bit of time at the Brisbane café recently and it is a great place to sit savour good German beer. They don’t serve double-hopped anything and the beers are...
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