Media Release Wednesday October 26, 2011 Australia’s best beer – Kosciuszko reaches the peak After five hours of judging, Lion Nathan’s Kosciuszko Pale Ale has been crowned Australia’s best beer at the RNA’s Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show (RQFWS) Beer Competition in Brisbane today. Competition came to a head with the Kosciuszko Pale Ale… Read more →
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‘Shirvo’ suits up for Australia’s richest foot race
When I see pictures of blokes racing down a horse track wearing beer suits having won a prize given away by radio announcers called ‘Fitzy’ and ‘Whippa’, I am reminded of Professor Charlie Bamforth’s comment… “The advertisements can be extremely funny, but equally they hardly appear to come from a position of maturity. It certainly… Read more →
Sydney chew and review
Hospitality group Merivale, responsible for such Sydney hotels CBD Bar, Slip Inn and Royal George, are participating in this year’s Sydney International Food Festival and as part of that they are offering a meal deal of a pie and Coopers Pale Ale for $20. We’re reluctant to plug hotels that we haven’t set foot into… Read more →
Back from the yak
We generally ignore marketing gimmicks here at Brews News but, as we have noted before, some gimmicks just can’t be ignored. Matilda Bay’s yak promotion was nothing, if not original. Media Release Meet Andrew Craine – our yak racing hero Arguably the GREATEST CONSUMER PROMOTION EVER CONJURED has finally come to a close with Andrew… Read more →
iBottleopener winners announced
Announcing the winners of the iBottleopener iPhone case competition…
Win an iBottleopener
We have iBottleopener iPhone cases to give away. We have road-tested these and they’re a pretty handy piece of kit. They snugly hold your iPhone without significantly increasing the size of the combined package. It is handyto have as few craft beers have twist tops and, while I have a bottle opener on my key… Read more →
Bendigo homebrew competition and tasting
Bendigo’s leading bunch of beer advocates – Bendigo Beer – are running their second homebrew competition and tasting.
Call for entries – Queensland amateur brewing competition
The Queensland Amateur Brewing Championship is held as a qualifier to the Australian Amateur Brewing Championship, which is to be held in Adelaide on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd October 2011. Entrants from the QABC and qualifiers from other states who receive a 1st, 2nd or 3rd placing in any of the categories and who… Read more →
Coopers time machine winner announced
We will definitely be holding more competitions because our ever growing band of readers obviously wants to win cool stuff, at least judging by the number of entries we have received to our last two competitions. And with the number of entries for the Coopers Vintage Ale Tasting pack even exceeding the Brew Masters DVD’s,… Read more →
2011 Royal Adelaide Show Beer Competition
In his first outing for Australian Brews News, Tim Baker looks South Australia’s lost beer awards pedigree and tells how South Australia came to get its beer awards groove back…