With the resurrection of the Great Northern Brewing Co brand, CUB is making a play for parochial Queensland drinkers. But Australia’s largest brewer has a long history in Queensland as historian Brett Stubbs explains…
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Scales and Ales
Beer and seafood is always a good pairing, but Graham Reeks finds a restaurants that is all about scales and ales…
Royal Queensland Food & Wine Show results
The inaugural Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show beer competition was held in Brisbane yesterday with a local brew picking up the trophy for Champion Beer of Show. Gold Coast-based Burleigh Brewing collected the gong for their Bavarian-inspired hefeweizen, Burleigh Hef, which also collected the Trophy for Champion Queensland Beer of Show. Other big winners… Read more →
Blue Sky Brewery, Cairns
Victorian James Davidson heads into the far north and finds that while they do things differently up there, there’s still plenty to like about the beer…
Brewing or suing: the litigious Lanfears
In this extract from his forthcoming book Beer, Mines and Rails: a history of the brewing industry in Queensland to the 1920s, Australia’s leading beer historian, Dr Brett Stubbs, looks at the contribution one family made to brewing in Queensland and beyond.
Flying the friendly Blue Skies
Cairns is now giving travellers a reason to hope their flight gets delayed with local craft brewery, Blue Sky, opening a 400-seat bar and restaurant in the newly redeveloped Cairns airport domestic terminal.
Brewhouse Brisbane
The old Stanley Street pub changed hands at the end of March, and is undergoing a gradual transformation from bland Aussie boozer into craft beer pub.
Letting the Sunshine in
Tucked away in an industrial estate on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is a little brewery that shows you don’t need a multimillion dollar operation to make great beer.
Yatala brewery still powering along
Carlton brewhouse is currently offering one hour guided tours ,running from Monday through to Sunday, including a beer tasting and souvenier gift.