Will Ziebell

Melbourne

Senior Journalist at The Crafty Pint

Senior journalist at @thecraftypint and freelance elsewhere. AIBA's Best Media for 2018.

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Articles

Episode 047: Charlie Bamforth: A Life In Beer

1 week ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

"I’m the one who can have a beer and advertise my endowment. The Edward Teller professor of nuclear physics is not walking around with uranium. And you can join the pet food industry, but on a Friday night you can’t have a few cans of Chum." Charlie Bamforth is a name and voice familiar to many in the beer world. He’s one of beer’s great storytellers and has worked in the industry since 1978, the year he started at the Brewing Research Foundation before moving to Bass in the UK.
From Hop Monsters To Lager Lovers: The Metamorphosis of KAIJU!

1 week ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

What’s the secret behind a champion beer? Freshness? Balance? A huge sack of cash delivered in the dead of the night? (To head off any defamation proceedings: I’d like to specifically point out that last one is definitely a joke, nobody is bribing beer judges.
Brew & A: Julia Santos Muriel

1 week ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

In November 2016, Julia Santos Muriel came to Australia as a backpacker. She planned to be back home in Spain before the Northern Hemisphere's summer. More than eight years on, she's still here and forging ahead with a "random" but amazing career in beer. The technical brewer looks after quality and sensory at Capital Brewing, recently judged at the Australian International Beer Awards, and helps others enter the world of judging via Pink Boots Society's Pathways To Judging.
Soaring Success: The Story Behind Wedgetail Brewing's Champion Beer

2 weeks ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

There’s speechless and then there’s Pete “Macca” McDonald collecting the Champion Australia Beer trophy at the Australian International Beer Awards speechless. The Wedgetail Brewing co-founder said the moment took him by complete surprise; a week on, he and fellow founder Howie Croft are still reeling from the major honour. “I was completely unprepared for it,” Macca says.
Inside The World's Biggest Beer Awards

1 month ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

Last week, TWØBAYS Brewing won back-to-back gold medals at the World Beer Cup – a first for an Australian brewery and an achievement that puts them among a small collection of breweries worldwide. It’s a competition that’s often considered one the most prestigious due to the number of entries and the fact only three medals are awarded in each category: gold, silver and bronze.
HPA Mark Their Latest Harvest & Fire Up Hop Central

1 month ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

Australia’s latest hop harvest is fading into the past and the team at HPA has plenty to celebrate. Beyond the chance to catch up on sleep, those hop flowers were the first to make use of the hop grower's brand new processing facility in Victoria’s High Country. It was also quite a bumper crop, given that the total number of hectares they picked from shrank. In total, HPA harvested 1,468 tonnes of hops, which is a 128-tonne increase on last year despite a 104-hectare decrease.
Beer Cocktails With Matt At Melville: The Pint of Origin Sour

1 month ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

About Will Will Ziebell is a history graduate who knows more about The Wire than he does about beer. He was awarded the AIBA Best Media trophy in 2018 and in 2024; HBO have told him to please send his fan mail elsewhere. He can be found on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Bucketty's Brewing Open Chalky's; Celebrate Home Town Win

1 month ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

There’s plenty of joy ahead for Bucketty’s as the brewery team open a new Northern Beaches venue today, just weeks after securing approval for a second brewpub in the rural community of Bucketty where they originally hoped to launch their brewery. The first of those is Chalky’s which, as the name alludes, is a pool hall. But it’s much more too, thanks to the substantial watering hole's karaoke rooms, a “super-duper” sports screen, and a classy cocktail bar.
TWØBAYS Win Back-To-Back Gold At World Beer Cup

1 month ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

TWØBAYS Brewing have won back-to-back gold medals at the World Beer Cup, with their Pacific Ale securing the top honour 12 months on from Session Ale topping the Gluten-Free category. TWØBAYS founder Richard Jeffares (pictured above with head brewer Kristian Martin), who woke to the news this while working in WA, describes the second win as a huge honour. “We’re very excited,” Richard says. “It shows the guys are brewing the best gluten-free beer in the world.
Craft Beer Heroes: Evan Cray

1 month ago | craftypint.com | Will Ziebell

As long as I’ve been attending beer events, Evan Cray’s smiling face has always been there. He's fixing up a jockey box at a beer festival, running to a van to grab another keg, or walking into a pub to greet the bar manager with a chat about sourdough and, eventually, IPA. For me, and I'm sure for many in Melbourne beer circles, it means that going to beer festivals, events, and industry sessions is going to look unmistakably different with no Cray on hand to chat about beer.