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1 week ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Play the full episode Understanding Sustainable Brewing Subscribe and listen Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS "A lot of customers are very concerned about their carbon footprint." For all the challenges faced by the beer industry, it’s one that continues to forge ahead in many areas, not least when it comes to sustainability.
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2 weeks ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Less than two weeks after calling in liquidators, Molly Rose is to reopen today.
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2 weeks ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
The program for Pint of Origin 2025 is now live. The unique festival returns to Melbourne, showcasing the wide world of beer at 23 bars, pubs and breweries from May 9 to 18. The ten-day, choose-your-own-adventure pub crawl features plenty of old faces and a few new ones, including our first ever Beer Cocktail Hub.
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3 weeks ago | 
craftypint.com | Molly Rose |James Smith
Another highly-rated indie brewery has fallen foul of the ongoing economic headwinds facing the drinks and hospitality sector today, with Molly Rose Brewing appointing liquidators.
The Collingwood-based brewing company cited delays in their most recent expansion, increases in construction costs and rising interest rates, and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis as contributing factors that have led to today's filing with ASIC.
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1 month ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
It's time to reveal the lineup for Pint of Origin 2025. The unique festival is set to return to Melbourne for a thirteenth time from May 9 to 18, taking over 23 of Melbourne's best pubs, bars and breweries for a ten-day celebration of the best of the beer (and boilermaker and beer cocktail) world.
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1 month ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Play the full episode Beer Tourism On The Brookie Trail Subscribe and listen Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS "We're small businesses hustling and coming up with new ideas for the venue and new ideas of how to get beer in hand."
Beer tourism was back on the cards in 2024 in a big way – locally, at least, as we noted in our Year in Beer 2024 wrap.
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1 month ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Play the full episode (Gluten) Free To Do What I Want Subscribe and listen Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS "I want to be able to go anywhere – I want to be able to travel around Australia and go to an outback pub – and be able to sit there and have a beer and not look like the guy that's different to everybody else." TWØBAYS weren’t the first gluten-free brewers in Australia, but they’ve certainly done their bit when it comes to putting Australian gluten-free beer on the map, not least...
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1 month ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Play the full episode Take The Good Times & Make Them Better Subscribe and listen Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS “Citra is like salt – you kinda need it… but also we have a lot contracted so we need to get through it!”
Banks Brewing hold a place in many Aussie beer drinkers’ hearts, not least as one of the country’s finest brewers of all things hop-forward and hazy.
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2 months ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Play the full episode Shapeshifter & Their Fun, Hoppy, Modern Beers Subscribe and listen Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube RSS "I think we got tagged early on as a hype brewery. We're not afraid to say that we were."
In the words of Willie Nelson, we’re on the road again for this episode – or at least we were – as our chat with James McCall and Carla Naismith of Shapeshifter Brewing is the last of the shows we recorded in Adelaide at the tail end of 2024.
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2 months ago | 
craftypint.com | James Smith
Have Your Done A Rallings? is a fun campaign we're running in partnership with the team at Rallings Labels and Stickers. It's designed to shine a light on the good beer citizens going above and beyond who are found in every corner of the country.
You can nominate the people or businesses you think deserve to be celebrated in the form below. Every month, we'll showcase some of our favourites on The Crafty Pint Podcast and here on the site, with the winners receiving vouchers from Rallings.
