The critics have voted. Given the list so far, is it any surprise that Australia’s best beer is…
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Critics Choice Top 100 Countdown #2
We’re getting to the serious end of the countdown. The critics have voted and Australia’s second best beer is……
Critics Choice Top 100 Countdown #3
We’re getting to the serious end of the countdown. The critics have voted and Australia’s third best beer is…
The Critics’ Choice: Australia’s Best Beers
It’s not a Australian Brews News publication but regular contributor and co-host of Radio Brews News, Pete Mitcham, is the editor-in-chief and Matt Kirkegaard is a contributor, so you would expect us to say nice things about the upcoming Critics’ Choice: Australia’s Best Beers. Still, is a very fine piece of beerphernalia. With the voting… Read more →
Hashigo names NZ's best beers
Without a national day in January to announce its selections on, Wellington’s Hashigo Zake has announced its customer’s choices for best beers of 2011. To have your say on Australia’s best beers, make sure you vote in the Local Taphouse Hottest 100. Media Release Hashigo Zake Reveals 2011’s Best Beers and Brewers New Plymouth’s Liberty… Read more →
Revealing the Critics' Choice: Australia's Best Beer
Well it’s been a long run to this point. We have seen Pale Ales, we have seen IPAs and we have seen double IPAs. We have seen beers light and dark. We have seen beers from breweries large and small, owned by massive public companies and by small private ones that define the purists vision… Read more →
Revealing the Critics’ Choice: #2
“The King is dead! Long live the King!” After holding the number one spot in the first two Hot 100 lists at The Local Taphouse and in the hearts of many drinkers, Little Creatures has fallen. All the way to number two. To put this into some sort of context, consider that 448 different beers… Read more →
Revealing the Critics’ Choice: #3
The countdown of the Critics’ Choice top 12 has been generating quite a bit of chatter online with all sorts of debate about the list. But if there has been one beer name that has risen above the general din of discussion as being a beer that punters demand to be in any credible list,… Read more →
Revealing the Critics’ Choice: #4
Even as a contributor to the book, as each beer is revealed it is a surprise to me. Though perhaps the bigger surprise would have been if this beer had been omitted from the top 5. It certainly lives up to the brewery’s boast that “it is also one of the highest rated beers brewed… Read more →
Revealing the Critics’ Choice: #5
It lost its title of ‘Best Australian Lager’ in somewhat controversial circumstances in this year’s Local Taphouse Hottest 100, but Knappstein Reserve Lager has reclaimed the top lager spot – and the title of Australia’s 5th best beer – in the Critics’ Choice list. I’m not sure whether it’s that lagers just don’t get much… Read more →