Everyone knows that a festival needs an amazing opening act, so join us for the Good Beer Week Opening Night Party at the Festival Hub! Rock out with the best and brightest of the beer industry!
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.
Northcote's newest bar addition Low Key is set to host Bodriggy's 'Cosmic Microwave' NEIPA launch with a special live modular synth performance, nonetheless. Synth starts at 6pm!
Our ever popular open day is back on bigger and better than ever! Expect plenty of entertainment and activities, including a live brew, games, tours, kids entertainment and great eats!
Join the gang at one of regional Australia's most renowned and enduring craft beer venues as we pay homage to the ever-increasing catalogue of breweries settling themselves in central Victoria.
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.
Rupert will be transformed into a sailor's paradise, pairing modern fresh naval grub to Gage Roads' array of award winning hydration aids. Come and rock the boat by celebrating the conquest that is life.
The Fox taps are taken over by the best female brewers in Australia and our stage, by the most talented female musos around. As well as the latest Pink Boots brew and meet the brewers.
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.
Get ready to rumble! Heartbreaker hosts Stomping Ground and Garage Project for an all-out Sunday session. Taste freshly tapped brews, challenge the brewers in a game of pool or enter our first ever pizza-eating competition!
Back for its second year, the Mt View Beer Fest features some of Australia's best craft breweries joined by live music, good food, fun games and a great atmosphere.
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.
3 Ravens' biennial celebration of wood is back with a world class lineup of barrel aged beer, cider and spirits. Ticket includes drinks, barbeque, live music and an exclusive take-home collaboration “bomboniere”.
One of Canberra’s finest, BentSpoke Brewing Co, will be running the taps at Dr Morse. A Sunday afternoon of fun, games, Asian BBQ and tunes in the beer garden.
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!
Treat the kickass woman in your life! Meet talented female brewers, artists, musicians and more over a laid back Sunday session of killer live music, good food and brews from Two Birds and Wayward.
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.
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.
An intimate two-course banquet paired with tunes from one of this country's great entertainers, Henry Wagons. Henry also takes his masterful hands to brewing collaborating on a specialty brew for the night!
Join Balter for a massive tap take over at one of Australia's greatest pubs. Loads of prizes, meet the brewer and try never before seen beers from the gang at Balter.
The World Tinnie Hurling Championships hit Good Beer Week, where mates pit themselves against mates for the chance to be showered in prizes, beer and glory. Four tinnies per team, 20 seconds a round, who will win?
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!
Dr Morse showcases what the island state’s beer scene is all about with a range of delicious brews from all around the state, featuring Bruny Island Beer, Hobart Brewing Company, Ocho Brewing and Morrison brewery.
It's state versus state as we showcase the best of the best from all corners, with matching nibbles, live entertainment and opportunities to speak to brewers. Featuring Hop Nation, Stone & Wood, Green Beacon and more!
Little Creatures LIVE is a traveling roadshow that celebrates self expression and individuality through live performance art, great food and of course beer. Come celebrate what makes you, you, because it’s good to be a little different!
Experience two beers at their absolute freshest; at the source. Grab a can directly from the Dainton canning line, try a glass from the Bright Tank, then enjoy tasting paddles, live music & hop infused pizza!
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...
Johnston St stalwart Old Bar are teaming up with Bodriggy for a special collaborative release. Along with local Melbourne acts supplying the music, this night is one not to be missed.
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.
BrewGOD from Stillwater Artisinal will be taking over Whitehart for one very special evening! Devour the food truck, smash his unique, limited brews and watch him hit the decks as DJ!
Join Mountain Goat for a sit down lunch celebrating the glory of Indian culture. Four of the West’s best Indian restaurants plus the multi national Plough Kitchen team to create a curry that will see them crowned the Best in the West.
Who doesn't love a bogan tinnie party?! Get your best stubbies on and join us for an arvo of can-filled eskys, live music, flamin' sausage sizzle, meet the brewers and prizes!
Iconic laneway venues Section 8 and Ferdydurke team up for the Brooklyn Block Party. From the day to night, both venues come alive with live music, street art, food, a full selection of Brooklyn beer and more!
One of the best nights of live music is back! Join Grim Rhythm, Body Parts and more for a packed house at the Old Bar. Enjoy super fresh Fixation IPAs in the finest bands dive bar in Melbourne!
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!
Returning for a fourth year, some of Australia’s most extreme metal bands come to the epic hall that is the Mallard with beers brewed by Moon Dog, Mountain Goat and Two Birds. Let the grim times roll.
Bid adieu to the week that was with Bodriggy at The Labour in Vain. Try Bodriggy brews on tap and witness a legendary Melbourne band (or two) doing a secret show in the front bar.
Join us for a relaxing afternoon/evening of American brews and live blues. We'll have a range of beers from Sierra Nevada never seen before in Australia. Sit back and soak in the live blues set!
Enjoy Stone Brewers tap takeover and American BBQ delights from the Boilermaker House kitchen and soulful tunes from Melbourne’s best blues artists.
A good ol' fashioned house party featuring brews from Brooklyn Brewery. Think hip hop, plus a tinnie bar, red cup specials, something rare on tap and food from the Leonards kitchen to keep you going.
Two Birds Brewing bring you a free gig at the Grace Darling showcasing some of Melbourne's best femme and non-binary acts. Come celebrate the ever increasing diversity in both the Melbourne craft beer and music scenes.
A home brewing competition that culminates in a day of judging, craft beer tasting, BBQ pork lunch and hip hop music in a Beer Hall environment.
Dr Morse features collaboration brews with some of Melbourne's finest, including Sailors Grave, Hop Nation and more. Come down for a party, a feed, hang out with the brewers and have a jolly good time.
Under the Dome of the Royal Exhibition Building, GABS brings together the very best breweries and cider makers in Australia and New Zealand for one specTAPular festival.
A pop-up tinnie bar, complete with beer cans, and a state of origin art battle. You, get to vote on which masterpiece will be transformed into a new Moo Brew can.
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.
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!
Lucy, our beloved Goose Truck is rollin' into Welcome to Thornbury to bring some of the most interesting beers from the Goose Island brewery in Chicago to Melbourne. This is going to be a week full of Chicago beats, brews and activities. Stay tuned.
The Rainbow hosts our northern cousins, with taps dedicated to some of the finest brews from Sydney. Regular tap changes, food matching specials, live music and more. It'll be a cracker!
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.
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!
The home of Melbourne beer for GBW18! Expect 'meet the brewer' events, collaboration beers, a pro brewing workshop, a Melbourne vs The World showdown and one of the greatest Melbourne tap takeover parties ever!
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!
From Green Beacon to Balter, Queensland craft breweries have come into their own. We celebrate Queensland beer all week with a bevy of beautiful beers from the Sunshine State.
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.
The team here at Fury and Son love a good time so we're teaming up with some awesome local talent and the team at Houston's Barbecue to host beers, bands and burgers in the brewery!
The Rochey and Young Henrys rip Johnston St a new one. Last year's event was off the charts and this year we’re upping the ante with more games, more beer, more food, and more live music!
Bluebonnet Barbecue and Firestone Walker bring beasts, limited release brews, and live music together for one hell of a hoedown throwdown!
Mountain Goat presents a night of live, local music in the barn at Collingwood Children's Farm, served with cold cans of Goat beer from the canoe bar. Stay tuned for the full line-up announcement.
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!
Black IPA, red IPA, New England IPA... what's in a name? Explore the variety to be found in this beer style with our resident IPA expert!
African beers, African jazz band, and African snacks. A casual Sunday arvo sesh awaits you! The entry fee also includes served canapés such as cured meat delicacies Biltong, Droëwors and more. *Unfortunately this event has had to cancel due to renovations not being complete at the venue.
Save your fancy beer and food pairing experience for somewhere else, we’re matching beer with live music! Join us for a night of surprises, delicious brews and some lethal live music!
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