Chef Paul Wilson and Transition Farm team up with Stone & Wood Brewery to create a sustainable shared table feast with matching craft beers. Hear from guests and brewers across this communal lunch event.
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!
Celebrate Prancing Pony's latest beer, Zeppelin's Nemesis, with some circus entertainment! A magician will take you into a world of improbabilities, while you may experience a rare appearance of our very own brewmaster Frank on a unicycle!
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 WA newcomers Nowhereman as they pour handles of quality beer and dig into their crusty leather bags to pull out their lawn bowls. Just turn up to enter the tourny, or come along for laughs & beers!
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.
The Terminus is kicking off the week in style with a full tap takeover of never before seen beers from 17 of Melbourne’s finest breweries. Expect beers from 3 Ravens, Hop Nation, Moon Dog and more!
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.
Join us for a boozy brunch and spectacular views on our rooftop. We'll be serving up breakfast canapes and specially matched beers from Bridge Road Brewers, including their core and limited releases.
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.
Beechworth neighbours Bridge Road Brewers and Project Forty Nine collaborate for the first time in Collingwood. Parking their “Hop Rod” in Cambridge Street, they will serve up fun and mouth-watering brews at the Pop Up Cellar Door.
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.
We're bringing the fun back and throwing a good old fashioned BBQ! Think tinnie lucky dip bar, bocce, more snags than St Kilda pier, an exclusive Dingo's/Moon Dog single keg collab and a bunch of prizes!
Following a day in the life of a Burnley Brewer, teams of 4-6 will compete in ten rounds of beer-related challenges for a $500 tab to become Burnley’s Ultimate Brewers!
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.
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.
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”.
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!
A rare opportunity to taste limited release beers from New York's Brooklyn Brewery and chat to one of their brewers! We have eight delicious beers from the famous New York brewery on tap, including a bunch of special limited releases!
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!
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!
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.
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!
Limber up at The Rainbow with some fresh Modus beers, including our limited GBW brew, in preparation for a night of sumo wrestling like you haven't quite seen before!
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.
Join the Boatrocker crew for a round of petanque and all things French on LOOP's rooftop. Cheese, baguettes and a beer on arrival with Boatrocker specials continuing throughout the afternoon.
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.
Four world class brew crews go head to head against Melbourne’s finest to decide just who makes the greatest beer is this head to head showdown! Who wins? You decide!
Your favourite plant-based restaurant, Smith & Daughters, teams up with your favourite local brewer, Barrow Boys, to put on an evening of copious Aussie classic dishes, your favourite Aussie tunes, tons of beers and beer cocktails to boot.
Sample Babu Ji’s famous street food, alongside beers from Two Birds Brewing. Enjoy three entrees, two mains and decadent dessert. Learn about brewing and the nuances of Two Birds beers, while enjoying a decadent Indian feast.
Some of the Western Suburbs' most talented chefs pull out all the stops, with five meticulously designed dishes paired with some of the finest crafted brews all hailing from the west of Melbourne!
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!
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.
We're partnering with Melbourne's famous Maker and Monger to bring you guys some bespoke toasties inspired by our beers.
We'll also be hosting a cheese and beer pairing Masterclass with our own Tiffany Waldron and Maker and Monger's Anthony Femia.
Wolf of the Willows and Stray Neighbour are coming together to celebrate what we love best; good beer with great food. We are throwing a beer inspired feast! Five courses of seasonal produce, curated by the Stray Neighbour crew, matched with Wolf and the Willows range of hand crafted modern ales. Come, eat, drink and enjoy the night with us.
A five course Indian feast prepared by the talented chefs at Fitzroy eatery Horn Please, expertly matched to a selection of Bridge Road Brewer’s beers, including a special release brewed just for the event. Vegetarian menu available.
Like song lyrics, naming a beer involves the creation of stories. Join us for a night of beer tasting where we will take you on a journey to reveal the imaginary world of our beer characters.
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!
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.
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!
Shizuku's presents a drunken ramen spiked with sake lees! Enjoy a four course dinner showcasing the always exciting Moon Dog Brewery seasonal brews to excite and provoke the palate!
Sierra Nevada Brewing meets Michters American Whiskey in an unmissable showcase of the art of the boilermaker. Expect a showcase of some Sierra Nevada beers never seen in Australia before!
We've left no Stone unturned in finding you the best lineup from California's Stone Brewing. Meet co-owner and original Head Brewer, Steve Wagner! Added bonus...it's Steak Night!
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!
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!
Join us for a round of nine holes with a Modus beer at each hole. Enjoy a pint and grub post game where the winner will be awarded 4 cases!
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.
Red Sparrow Pizza and The Mill throw Melbourne's finest vegan pizza party! As well as a number of specialty beer releases being paired with the food, expect a special collab beer being brewed just for the event.
After nearly burning down the Great Northern last year with MONA's Wall of Fire; Moo Brew is having another crack. A rager, with good beer and slow cooked fare in Moo’s favourite beer garden.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
Unwind after a busy Good Beer Week at the Goat Bar in Richmond. Think of it as a lazy Sunday on the couch but the couch just happens to be at a brewery.
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!
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.
2017’s most popular event [citation needed] is back. Nine days of burger and beer pairings featuring the best Garage Project and Rockwell and Sons have to offer.
Good Beer Gelateria will arrive on deck with a collaborative beer flavoured gelato as designed by Chef Nick Bennett. One scoop or two of this limited edition collaboration will be available every day of the festival.
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!
Freshly established venue Saving Grace has partnered with the legendary Scots at BrewDog to bring a very special, week long event to the beer and food lovers of Melbourne. Six taps of BrewDog's eclectic brews and matching burgers!
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.
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!
Can we tap 120 American beers that have never been tapped in Australia before? Probably not, but we're going to try! Come in and pair it with pop-up Texas style barbecue from Bluebonnet served all week!
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!
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!
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 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.
From one of the fastest growing craft beer scenes in the world, Captain Melville bring you the world of Asian craft beer.
Two Birds are welcomed back and team up with Tasmanian brewery Moo Brew to show off their local individual craft brews while you enjoy our wood fired food at Bar Nacional.
Join us for an evening of Southern cuisine, matched with Sierra Nevada Brewing with this four course menu matched to Sierra Nevada beers never seen before in Australia, with beer cocktails also on offer.
Join us for our infamous beergustation as we immerse you in delicious flavours unique to this sunburnt country, across seven courses perfectly matched to our favourite seven breweries from Australia-wide.
A winter feast with Paul West of River Cottage Australia, paired with specialty Stomping Ground beers, including a barrel aged brett fermented sour ale with local fruit, brewed specially for the event!
Have you discovered Richmond's best kept secret? Join Mountain Goat Beer, Maker Fine Coffee and Phillippa's Bakery for a delicious Craft Crawl, visiting each venue to learn about beer, coffee, bread and pastries.
Join our cheesemongers and brand experts for a guided flight of artisan cheeses and boutique beers as we explore the earthy, yeasty flavours that make beer and cheese the perfect pairing.
Ricky & Pinky presents Pass The Pig - a playful game of pure luck. SAMPLE showcase their fine beer alongside a feast of Chinese favourites - think whole roasted suckling pig - while you chuck pigs in the air!
Callum from KAIJU! & Doug from Paradise IV Wines present an unforgettable four course menu to complement KAIJU's hop monster beers and award winning wines from Paradise IV in the cellar of Kirk's Public Bar.
An intimate evening of beer and vegetarian fare as Henry Sugar and La Sirene join forces to bring you a six course degustation, paired with a selection of their cult brews in refined, simplistic Henry Sugar style.
Join Kumo owner Andre Bishop for an evening of award winning Japanese food matched with beer from breweries including Edge Brewing Project, Mikkeller, Baird Beer and more.
Byron Bay comes to Melbourne as Stone & Wood, Three Blue Ducks and Vue de Monde collaborate to present the very best in locally sourced, sustainable produce across a six course beer-matched degustation.
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!
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 bikes and beers with Bridge Road Brewers, Rockwell and Sons, Cycling Tips, and Curve. Join us for one of a few ride options around Melbourne and beyond before a beer and a bite.
A sellout event last year, Bucks Boilermakers features the pairing of Brooklyn beers with Teeling Irish whiskies. Featuring drops new to Australia, such as Brooklyn's American Pale Ale and the new Brabazon bottling series from Teeling.
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!
Experience four beer styles served at three different stages of life – as beer, as distilled spirits & as spirits in cocktails. Feast on a matched four-course dinner as a live beer distillation happens on the night!
Sit amongst Australia's first and largest barrel room, and cleanse your palate with world class sours, cracking food, and great company. There'll be a distilled treat in there for you too from our Hippocampus still.
Join Holgate, Colonial, 3 Ravens, Old Wives Ales, Hargreaves Hill and Bright Brewery for one off beers straight from the cask!
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!
Bonehead Brewing from Australia and Dos Dingos from Argentina go head to head in a freestyle Brew-Off, with both beers put to the test by you, combined with a traditional Argentine feast!
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.
In 2018, Grandad’s Supper focuses on beer from Mornington Peninsula Brewery, Brooklyn, 8 Wired and Moon Dog. All food matched with a twist. Four courses, eight beers, double down! One beer complements, one beer contrasts.
Enjoy some funk inspired beers matched with your breakfast! Beers from Omnipollo, Bridge Road and Boatrocker. Everything you need to knock on after the Australian International Beer Awards.
The renowned 1806 team explores the versatility of grains through award-winning beers and whiskies showcased through cocktails and boilermakers, with selections chosen from Australia, Ireland, America & India, plus a matched food menu.
Out of the frying pan and into the FIRESTONE! Join us for an evening that is bound to be nothing but fire. An intimate evening with superb quality brews matched with finely crafted dishes from our own Executive Chef Jake Furst. Specifically demonstrating the delicate, yet flavoursome characteristics of barrel aged brewing all the way from the USA. 4 courses supremely matched with 4 unique and delicious Firestone Walker Brews. An evening not to be missed.
BentSpoke returns to Barr'd again for GBW18! Enjoy a selection of beer from this award winning Canberra brewery accompanied by signature Spanish tapas from the Barr'd kitchen.
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