Elite by name. Elite by nature.

The Royal Adelaide Beer & Cider Awards (RABCA) was established in 1844. This year, the 10 trophies were dominated by home state heroes, with more than 200 medals handed out to breweries across Australia. Deep Elite Brewing’s Fractured Traveller recently took out Champion IPA, proudly sponsored by HPA. The WA outfit is owned and operated…

The Ultimate Beer and Matchday Food Pairing Guide

A full matchday has a way of stretching on just long enough for your food choices to matter more than you expect. After the second snack offering, you’re no longer looking at food; you’re looking at food to keep things interesting without overloading your taste buds. This is where beer can help. Beer brings carbonation,…

BeerSmith 4 Water Profile Features

This week I take a close look at the many changes to the water profile features in BeerSmith 4. The water profile estimation and matching was significantly overhauled in the new version of BeerSmith to make it easy to use and more accurate. Water Salt Forms and Molecular Weights In BeerSmith 3 most of the…

Double Mountain releases Devil’s Cuvee Kriek and Peche Mode

View fullsize View fullsize Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery has announced the release of Devil’s Cuvee Kriek and Peche Mode in their Brewers Reserve Sour Program. Double Mountain’s Devil’s Kriek was one of the first true wild ales inspired by Belgian Lambic brewed in the Pacific Northwest when they first introduced it in 2010. At…

ACCC Once Again Rejects Kegstar’s Proposed Purchase of Konvoy

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has once again rejected Kegstar’s proposed acquisition of Konvoy. The ACCC said the organisation had assessed the likely impact Microstar’s (which owns Kegstar) purchase of Konvoy would have on competition. It found that the acquisition would remove « the only significant source of direct rivalry »in Australia’s keg pooling services.…

ACCC Rejects Kegstar’s Proposed Purchase of Konvoy

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has once again rejected Kegstar’s proposed acquisition of Konvoy. The ACCC said the organisation had assessed the likely impact Microstar’s (which owns Kegstar) purchase of Konvoy would have on competition. It found that the acquisition would remove « the only significant source of direct rivalry »in Australia’s keg pooling services.…

Craft Malting with Jeff Bloem – BeerSmith Podcast #348

Jeff Bloem joins me from Murphy and Rude Malting in Virginia to discuss challenges his business has had producing craft malt, his new partnership with Carolina malts and his craft malt offerings. Subscribe on iTunes to Audio version or Video version or Spotify or Google Music Download the MP3 File– Right Click and Save As…

Las Vegas Brewing News: August 2026

BEER EVENTS Zio’s Italian Restaurant Beer vs Wine Dinner — August 9 Zio’s Italian Restaurant at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel will host a friendly competition between craft beer and fine wine. The five-course dinner will have each course paired with a beer from local brewery Able Baker along with a wine from JUSTIN Vineyards…