Historian Dr Brett Stubbs looks at the recent openings and closings in the Australia small brewing industry.
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Australian Small Brewery Update – November 2014
Historian Dr Brett Stubbs looks at the recent openings and closings in the Australia small brewing industry.
Award-winning master brewer calls it a day
Award-winning master brewer Richard Watkins has called it a day at Canberra’s iconic Wig and Pen Brewery
Feral and Wig & Pen to brew 2013 AIBA Collaborator
Brendan Varis and Richard Watkins will come together in Canberra to brew the AIBA 2013 Collaborator.
Champion brewery seeks comfortable new home
The day after Richard Watkins and the Wig & Pen brewpub triumphed at the Australian International Beer Awards – taking home the Cryer Malt trophy for Champion Small Australian Brewery – the Canberra Times reported that the landmark watering hole in our nation’s capital would be looking for a new home. The mood quickly turned… Read more →
Australian small brewery update, May 2011
Brett Stubbs looks at all the openings, closings, comings and goings at Australia’s small breweries…
Goat releases Richard III
Collaboration brews are the hot ticket in beer internationally and it’s a little surprising that the trend has yet to hit our shores. But in one of the first of what will no doubt become a wave, the team at Mountain Goat has teamed up with Richard Watkins from Canberra’s Wig & Pen Brewery to… Read more →