Review: Targeting Great Beer at Archer

By Tony Van Der Linden It was only late February but already feels like an age ago, Nick, Snow and I paid the new Archer brewery at Newmarket a visit. An easy train ride from the city after work, the brewery is located on Newmarket Rd, just a short walk from Newmarket station, in a …

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The great Northside Crawl 2023

By Nick Holt Each year, between a few friends, we make the long and far pilgrimage to the Northside to visit venues that we don’t often get to go to. This year we decided that the crawl would be held just after New Year’s, and we made the journey via train across the river. First …

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Brew Day at Macalister: A play date with Terry and Rob

By Dion Clark. My in-laws live on the northern beaches of Cairns, so we visit there regularly. Now, it’s lovely there and everything, but there’s always been a distinct lack of breweries. Until now. The in-laws had often mentioned that an old friend of theirs “Terry” was also a homebrewer. A couple of times off-handedly …

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Brisbane Breweries List

In this golden age of brewing, we think it’s worth keeping a list of all the new breweries in our city and surrounds. This is a work in progress. Please comment below for recommendations, new breweries, or any information that you would like to add. What’s included? All breweries with a bar, or somewhere you …

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What A Week It Was: Brewsvegas 2018

By Tony van der Linden Do you like IPA? Of course you do. How about cheese? I do. What about Imperial Stout. Yes again. “How much?” you ask. A lot. So I was pretty stoked when I skimmed through the Brewsvegas program online to see all of these boxes ticked. After dithering about going to …

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Fresh Eleanor: Release Party at Newstead

By Dion Clark Newstead put on a pretty great little party last week for the launch of Fresh Eleanor, a wet hopped beer with 100% fresh Galaxy. Held at the main brewery in Milton, affectionately and efficiently known as Milstead. There was a tasting paddle of other’s fresh hop releases, a tour of the brewery, …

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An Evening With The Sun God: Nick Visits Helios

By Nick Holt. Back in 2015 I met this guy Scott at the Embassy during their annual homebrew comp. He was one of the other homebrewers so naturally we started chatting. He mentioned he was in the process of starting a brewery in West End and that it was going to be an environmentally friendly …

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Black Hops: Covert Visit

By Anthony “Ziggo” Zigenbine. While everyone else was at the QABC judging QLD’s best homebrew, I was down the Gold Coast (finally) checking out Black Hops. After reading through Operation Brewery and seeing the effort that went into its setup, I was keen to check out the brewery in person. The venue itself is a …

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