Rocks Brewing Co has cranked up their new brewing equipment and opened their Brewery Bar to the public.
NSW
Brewers & Chewers returns to Sydney
Beer is a conversation, and there’s no better way to experience this in a intimate setting than the Local Taphouse’s special dinner event, Brewers & Chewers, which returns to Darlinghurst as part of Sydney Craft Beer Week…
NSW to become largest market for Coopers
An interesting release from Coopers announcing that in January, that for the first time, sales in NSW beat those for South Australia. It’s worth bearing in mind that when you look at Coopers production figure of 68.8 million litres, that is the equivalent of around (if my unreliable maths are correct) 588,034 US barrels. To… Read more →
Six String Brewing and the love of beer
Sam Fletcher heads back to Six String Brewing to find the development finally done and good beer flowing…
A beer to celebrate 150 years of Newtown
On 12 December 1862 Newtown Municipality was proclaimed by Government Gazette, covering 480 acres in three wards: Enmore, Kingston and O’Connell. By the 1870s, Newtown was one of the most densely populated municipalities in NSW and a decade later was one of the main retail centres outside the city. King Street is Newtown’s spine. The… Read more →
The Oak Barrel gets its beer geek on
Some evidence of the craft beer movement is obvious, such as the growing number of smaller breweries opening their doors, the increasing crowds at beer festivals and so forth, while others can be less obvious. One of the less trumpeted flow-on effects of craft beer’s slowly expanding market is the infiltration of good beer into… Read more →
Six String Brewing and the politics of beer
Six String Brewing began like any other brewery. Inspired by years of homebrewing and a ‘real ale’ trip through the UK, Chris Benson approached his friend Adam Klasterka in 2009 with the idea of opening up a craft-minded brewery on the NSW central coast. They hoped to bring to the vibrant community an intimate ‘third… Read more →
The saga of Young Henry
By now everybody should know the saga of Young Henry’s. There’s been enough coverage in the mainstream media for everyone with a passing interest in beer to have gotten wind of it. The original site for the brewpub/restaurant on Devonshire Street in Surry Hills, near Sydney’s CBD, was part of an existing dispute between the… Read more →
Get brewed at Young Henry’s
Sydney’s soon-to-open Young Henry’s brew pub is offering home brewers the chance to have one of their beers made professionally in their brewery. The winning entry will be made on the brewery’s 12-hectolitre system and will feature as the new venue’s winter release specialty beer. Details on the poster below. Entries close April 29th. More… Read more →
Gonna lay down my beer, down by the riverside
Western Sydney is at present not quite awash with quality beer. Craft offerings in the harbour city tend to be concentrated around the CBD, while the huge suburban sprawl out west is largely untouched. But after the Australian Brewery opened their doors in Rouse Hill in 2010, western Sydney got its first local taste of… Read more →