The Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular (GABS) was recently voted one of the top 20 beer festivals in the world*, and has now announced it will hold its first trade event. GABS 2015 will take place in Melbourne 22-24 May, and for the first time, one day in Sydney on 30 May. Friday 22 May will […]
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The historic link between art and hotels turns a new page as the Arkaba Hotel hosts the glamorous launch of its Honours scholarship. Hurley Hotel Group owners Jenny and Peter Hurley have kick-started a program in support of the Adelaide Central School of Art that raises money for an annual scholarship. “Peter and I attended
Sydney craft brewers have helped bring attention to climate change by making a nasty beer – Drought Draught. Earth Hour commissioned GPY&R to draw attention to the plight of climate change and rural conditions by engaging craft beer aficionados Young Henrys and Willie The Boatman to make a beer representative of drought-stricken ingredients. The campaign
The Newtown Hotel is running its second annual cider festival this weekend, as crafty drinkers continue to lap up the growing category. Located in the highly gentrified and almost dangerously hipster inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown, the eponymous hotel stands on the cutting edge of the ‘trend factor’. It launched its Cider Fair last year in
Heeding “fantastic” feedback, Merivale is extending indefinitely its Work In Progress @patrickfriedsen and Chandon Vintage Bar pop-ups to take advantage of their success. Set to wrap up this Sunday, the seventh big year of March into Merivale has seen over 50 events take place across its diverse portfolio of hotels and dining establishments. Citing that
An Irish mother has quit her job with Heineken to launch the ultimate pop-up bar – an inflatable pub. Officially launched on St Patrick’s Day, when much of the world finds itself in Irish pubs, Caitriona Mulhern blew up The Pub and The Barrel for the first time, to a rousing reception. The units have
The Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular is making its long-awaited return to Sydney, according to beer pub baron Guy Greenstone. Steve Jeffares and Guy Greenstone put their money where their taste-buds are nearly a decade ago by launching their craft beer pubs The Local Taphouse in Melbourne’s St Kilda and Sydney’s Darlinghurst. The Great Australian Beer
Pubs around the country are getting into the Easter festivities with events ranging from egg hunting to crab racing – many chaperoned by the Bunny himself. The family-run W.Short Hotel Group (WSHG) is a strong advocate of the holiday, with a tradition of events at its venues around Sydney and NSW. The Group’s sister venues
Paddy Coughlan and Ned Kelly’s new pub is changing name – for one day. Having announced the acquisition in recent weeks, in a new venture with old partner Rodney ‘Ned’ Kelly, Paddy’s Lord Gladstone Hotel will be re-named the Lord Turnbull for one day only – in support of the ‘Abbottsolutely Hopeless’ campaign. A 4.5-metre
Back for a big fifth year, Sydney Craft Beer Week is calling on pubs to jump on the crafty train. Beergustations, Block Parties, Sydney Sausage-Fest and Ladies Beer High Tea will be some of the festival’s offerings when it takes place this year, from Saturday, 17 October to Sunday, 25 October. Having doubled in size
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