Well before small breweries were called 'craft, Geoff Scharer struggled to open a small brewery as Mike Wales recounted...
Sugar has been controversial in Australian brewing since the 1830s - and the debate over adjuncts hasn't gone away....
Originally published in the Beer Lover's Guide, this 2010 essay asks whether Australia's brewery boom is a genuine revolution or just the start of a trend. ...
How Tim Cooper returned to the family brewery and steered it through financial crisis, recession and a hostile takeover bid....
Wine and cheese seems to be one of the natural pairings in the food world. The ‘and cheese’ just seems to flow natural naturally after the mention of wine. I’m not sure where this close association sp...
From wartime rationing rows to UK adoption - the surprisingly contested history of Australia's schooner beer glass....
How Victorian brewers came to dominate Queensland -- from the Perkins and Castlemaine mergers to CUB's 1931 takeover of the Cairns brewery....
Which beers improve with age, how to store them and what to expect -- a guide to cellaring beer for Australian enthusiasts....
A history of fatal accidents in Australian breweries -- drownings, suffocations and scald deaths from the 19th and early 20th centuries....
Beer isn't the dietary villain it's made out to be - but low-carb beer may not be the solution you think it is either....
CUB's Yatala Brewery is a facility of epic proportions and a monument to the clinical efficiency that quenches a country's thirst....
Tim Cooper reflects on near-bankruptcy, a hostile Lion Nathan takeover bid and the three things he credits with keeping Coopers in family hands....












