Tomorrow’s International Beer Day comes at a slightly sobering time for the Australian brewing industry. While the amber fluid remains close to the nation’s heart, increased competition, changing drinking habits, recently increased taxes and a cost of living crisis all combine to make for tough times for an industry thatContinue Reading
With Dry July around the corner, there are more – and better – beer options than ever for the more than 400,000 Australians who have expressed a desire to be more sober-curious in 2023. The annual fundraising initiative, which challenges Australians to go alcohol-free for a whole month to raiseContinue Reading
An Australian brewer is bringing new meaning to the phrase “waste not, want not” by converting food that otherwise have been thrown away into delicious craft beer. Concerned by the 7.6 million tonnes of food that goes to landfill every year – creating destructive methane emissions – Canberra’s Capital BrewingContinue Reading
Adventurous drinkers are turning to the dark side again, according to the organiser of Australia’s biggest craft beer festival. Mike Bray, the managing director of the Great Australian Beer Spectapular (GABS) Festival, which kicked off in Melbourne last week and rolls into Sydney next week, then Brisbane next month, saysContinue Reading
The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale wasn’t the first craft beer to come out of America, but it’s certainly been one of the most popular and influential. Since its humble beginnings in 1980, the year after Ken Grossman founded the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, the delicious, full-bodied, citrusyContinue Reading
The team at Better Beer had a very good reason for making their first foray into the mid-strength beer market – the people who love it, really love it. The fledgling brewery, a partnership between Victorian brewer Nick Cogger and Jack Steele and Matt Ford – aka internet sensation TheContinue Reading
For adventurous beer lovers, one of the great joys of the Great Australian Beer Spectapular (GABS) is the chance to try some of the crazy creations concocted by breweries from around the country. Among the offerings this year will be a dark lager made with raspberries and red frogs fromContinue Reading