Holding fast at number twoin the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is Byron Bay in a bottle: Stone & Wood Pacific Ale. The brewer’s notes explain that the Pacific Ale is inspired by their home on the edge o...
Number three in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Holgate Temptress. For the past three years the Temptress has been in the top 10 – coming in at number 4 last year. The sultry chocolate porter...
Number four in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is Feral Brewing’s Watermelon Warhead. One of the great things about this year’s list of 100 beers is the appearance of so many new beers. The Watermelon War...
Number five in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Two Birds Sunset Ale. Their second beer in the Critics’ Choice top 12. Although they are a relatively new entity Two Birds have been embraced by consu...
Number six in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Bridge Road Brewers Chevalier Saison. Ben Kraus has built a reputation for brewing high quality beers with the Chevalier Saison a real standout. Matt K...
Number seven in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Little Creatures Pale Ale. A perennial top ten beer and a trail blazer of the craft beer movement in Australia. Matt Kirkegaard comments that ‘a lot ...
Number eight in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Kooinda Black IPA. Finding their “happy place”, the boys from Kooinda Boutique Brewery upscaled from the residential licenced brewery in their backya...
Number nine in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Mountain Goat India Pale Ale. Brewed in Richmond, Vic, Mountain Goat IPA is the latest addition to the stable of goat beers available everyday in a 33...
Number ten in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Hargreaves Hill ESB. Reborn from the smouldering ashes of Black Sunday, the Hargreaves Hill brewery sits with pride amongst the quality artisans in the...
Number eleven in the Critics’ Choice Top 100 is the Two Birds Golden Ale. The Golden Ale first appeared in the top 100 last year when it came in at 81. It’s a massive jump to 11, which is proof of the...
New publication, The Critics’ Choice: Australia’s Best Beers lists the top 100 beers from 2012 as voted by 37 of Australia’s leading beer critics. Barrel Media is pleased to begin the count down of th...
Australian representative Tong Master, International Beer Awards host, Radio Brews News Executive Producer, and now Editor-in-Chief of The Critics’ Choice: Australia’s Best Beer….is ...