Be regaled with tales from the sea, whilst enjoying a bounty of freshly harvested oysters matched sublimely with gose, berliner-weisse and oyster stout from Sailor's Grave. Meet the brewer, meet an oyster farmer.
A celebration of the unique beer and food culture of Ballarat with beers from Red Duck and Cubby Haus Brewing, matched with six courses from our Head Chef Lynn Brooke.
HopsAboard searches for the greatest home brew beer Melbourne has ever seen. Join us to award the winner of HopsAboard II, where the winner gets thousands of litres of their beer brewed and bottled!
Join Ocean Reach Brewing as they launch their special release beer Excessive Baggage Porter. Bigger and bolder than its predecessor, this ale shouldn't be consumed single handedly! Try alongside a feast of BBQ smoked meat.
We’re inviting the beer lovers and creators from Geelong, Bellarine, Surf Coast and beyond into our Little Creatures Village with pop-up stalls full of delicious beer, great food and live entertainment.
Celebrate the best of Old Blighty! 40+ brews from 22 breweries on tap (or hand pump) including Fuller’s, Tetley’s, Beavertown, BrewDog, Wild Beer, and Tiny Rebel, plus Britpop tunes, English grub and classic pub games.
Bowl and chat with some of the best brewers from Australia and NZ at this family-friendly event. Includes free bowls, a burger and your choice of two beers or ciders from the featured brewers. Vegetarian options available.
The Corner and Rogue Wave Brewing Co. present two Sunday sessions in the front bar! Wind down your weekend with a Sunday sesh soundtracked by some of our favourite local musos while enjoying a Rogue Wave tipple.
A day for all the family! Egg and spoon races, sack races, tunnel ball and more. Featuring local breweries, local produce and you, the locals! Come down with the whole family, to celebrate with an iconic community pub.
Consider yourself a budding brewer? Or just ready to enhance your beer knowledge? Stomping Ground's Ashur Hall takes you through how to brew in your very own home brew kit supplied by Grain & Grape.
A range of flavour driven unique ales matched and paired with smooth yet complex tequilas and mezcals. Includes seven generous beer tasters, seven tequila/mezcals, plus serves of tacos!
Twelve tap takeover at the Prince Alfred, including Bling Bling, Mayday Hills, B2 Bomber, Chevalier, plus beers you've never heard of... because Bridge Road haven't dreamed them up yet!
It's our favourite day of the year! The best beers Feral has saved up for us throughout the year plus the launch of our 2018 Feral-Royston collaboration brew. This one's going to be epic!
Brewed by the mums, for the mums! Following a brew day with the mums of Stomping Ground staff beforehand, we'll tap this special release on Mothers' Day and all mums get the first one free!
Celebrate Mother's Day with regional Victoria's finest beers and a buffet of scones complemented by North East Victoria's finest condiments. Treat the old girl to rose-petal infused beers and an almighty wheel of Milawa cheese!
To celebrate our industry pourers, Balter and Garden State throw a party to say thank you. Explore three levels of fun where you’ll get to have a crack at the whole Balter range plus a few special brews.
Showcasing how wonderfully well ales can work as cocktails or as we've dubbed it, 'hoptails'! The outcome will be delicious, wild and different. Ticket price includes five unique hoptails and food.
A must see for any aspiring brewer wishing to convert their passion to an enterprise. Featuring a new 'speed-dating' format, see 6 pro-brewers for 5 minutes each. Sample brews and a wood-fired pizza inclusive.
Beers, movies, friends, pop up bars, canapes, bean bags, and more goodies than ever from one of your locals, Stomping Ground Brewery! Gipps Street comes to the Garden, time to get your relax on.
This special edition of our monthly beer evening features Geoff Quinn, founder of Buxton Brewing (UK). Enjoy stories and insights as we sample Buxton's world renowned brews, including some poured for the first time in Australia.
Big brewers have long marketed beer, to blokes. Come see craft brewers band together to produce ads for one audience, women. Featuring a panel of local advertising luminaries. Fun and free!
Young Henrys is taking over the Northcote Social Club to throw a big beer and live music bash that’ll see hard hitting blues band CHILD shred a massive free show!
Join Mornington Peninsula Brewery and Wayward Brewing Co. for a collaboration brew day while enjoying beers from both breweries, including woodfired pizzas and special releases!
Come down to the Great Northern Hotel and meet the Stone & Wood team, share in the banter and good times, all while trying the latest pilot batch beer.
Money or the bag Melbourne!? We recreate the classic Kiwi game show for a nostalgic night of laughs, prizes and amazing Kiwi beer. Risk it all or play it safe! Everyone can play, anyone can win!
GBW Scavenger Hunt gets bigger, crazier and more ridiculous every year, so get your teams together for a night of drinking great beer, solving clues, finding random objects and doing the most ridiculous things possible!
Exit Brewing sponsors the first annual Uitgang GBW mini air hockey tournament! Includes entry, two free pots and drink specials. Who will be the first ever champ of this prestigious event?
A tasting and brewery tour with one of Stomping Ground's Certified Cicerones - internationally accredited beer professionals. Enjoy our specialty, locally brewed beers in an unparalleled beer experience.
Dingo's and Club Brewing invite you to treat your tastebuds to exclusive cocktails made with exclusive beers. Brewers and bartenders will chat about their respective creations in this intimate event for the curious and discerning.
Sample Chicago's finest at the Waterside Hotel with their range of Goose Island brews, while chowing down on a DIY American-style hot dog bar. Enjoy some sweet tunes, Jenga and even a pin ball machine!
Get your beer geek on with Gage Roads! Meet and greets with the brewers, limited releases, tasters, and prizes to be won! It's one of our worst puns, but one of our better events! Come get enGAGEd...
Day of the Dead skeletons, frisky White Mischief rabbits or colossal Umami Monsters. Bring them to life at this Garage Project costume party of epic proportions. First 48 in costume will receive a can of BEER on Garage Project!
Brewers Brains is the ultimate pub quiz with each round matched to a Cavalier beer! Get your team together for a night of laughs and banter. Great prizes to be won and great beer to be drunk.
Learn about the flavour profiles of different beers from Left Bank's expert cocktail bartenders and how they can be perfectly paired with spirits in this unique experience, paired with a chef's selection of canapes.
Local Legends at Handle Bar, with four different local beers matched with four different styles of local cheese topped off with local musicians showcasing their style into the evening.
Celebrating the best from NZ with up to 20 beers from 15 of the finest Kiwi breweries including Garage Project, Panhead, 8 Wired, Epic, Liberty, Deep Creek and ParrotDog, plus a proper Kiwi food menu!
The award winning Wheaty Brewing Corps from Adelaide is setting up shop at Tallboy and Moose, where their beers will be on tap all week. Join us for several intimate events playing with hops and blending!
The Park brings a collection of New Zealand's best craft beers to Melbourne's West for Good Beer Week across its range of 29 taps, including Epic, 8 Wired, Hop Federation and many more.
The Great Northern Hotel is taking it back to basics, and just celebrating Good Beer - no gimmicks, no themes, no Carlton Draught, all week long!
Stone baked pizza with a glass of each from Young Henry's, Mountain Goat, Gage Roads and Two Birds for $30. Vote for your favourite and we'll keep it on tap!
Sample some of the UK's best beers as Freddies designates one craft brewery to each tap for the duration of GBW, spreading the breadth of England, Scotland and Wales!
After bringing Irish craft beer to the masses over the last few festivals, the Province takes it to the next level, featuring beers from two of Ireland's leading craft breweries; O'Hara's & 8 Degrees.
Celebrating the finest beers that regional Victoria has to offer, the Cherry Tree is showcasing the regions across all 23 taps with more varieties than you can poke a paddle at!
The Lincoln is bringing Tasmania's best craft brewers to Carlton for Pint of Origin. Try some uniquely Tassie (and tasty) beers brewed using some of the finest ingredients on earth.
New Zealand is a place with a pretty good rugby team, a few sheep and a weird obsession with hobbits. It also has one of the most exciting and innovative brewing scenes in the world!
If a state and a pub could be lovers, The Royston's would be Western Australia. We're both home to top food, good times and amazing beer. Pouring the finest from WA's best breweries, all week long!
Beermash is the home of Scandinavia all week, featuring beers from Mikkeller, Omnipollo, Nøgne Ø, To Øl, Brewski, Lervig and much more across all 20 taps!
The Windsor Alehouse presents beers from Regional NSW and ACT all week, with 14 guest taps featuring Fixation, Bentspoke, FogHorn Brewhouse and more, plus live music and beer matched food!
Come try the best of South Australia, as the Palace's 18 taps rotate through the finest SA has to offer, including Pirate Life, the Wheatsheaf, Little Bang, Mismatch and more!
From one of the fastest growing craft beer scenes in the world, Captain Melville bring you the world of Asian craft beer.
Join us and the team from Stomping Ground for a Beergustation featuring the exclusive brew made in our very own micro-brewery, Frank, as well as 3 other tasty Stomping Ground beers, each with matched courses!
This annual beer and cheese event sells out every Good Beer Week, and pairs delicious cheeses from Milk the Cow Fromagerie with local craft beers. Discover the joys of beer and cheese matched by our resident experts.
Join the brewers from Green Beacon (QLD), Wolf of the Willows (VIC), Capital Brewing (ACT) and Kereru Brewing Co (NZ) for an eight course dinner beer matched by chef Paul Le Noury.
Eight brewers matched with 8 coffee roasters to come up with unique iterations of beer brewed with coffee! All will be nitrogenated, making a whole new world of texture and delicious flavours!
Celebrate GBW18 in one of Melbourne’s most picturesque locations alongside the best brewers in the business, Brewmanity Beer Co and Shifty Lizard Brewing Co. $35 will get you all the meat you can eat!
Westside Ale Works makes West Coast U.S. style hop forward beers in South Melbourne. We will be turning up the smoke and pairing these aggressive beers with U.S. style smoked BBQ from the Sunday Creek food truck!
This famously fun dinner party includes brewers from BentSpoke, Tiny Rebel (UK), Stone (USA), Deep Creek (NZ) and Three Weavers (USA) for a night of great beer, food and company.
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