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Welcome to Beer & Brewer / Homebrewer Magazine

Beer & Brewer is now in its third year of celebrating the beer industry and lifestyle in Australia & New Zealand. Each issue serves up the latest beer news, travel ideas, beer & food matching, home brewing tips & recipes (in a flip cover magazine entitled Homebrewer) and tasting notes on local and imported beer, cider and whisk(e)y. We won a Highly Commended Best Consumer Magazine Launch (2007) and a Highly Commended Best Consumer Magazine Cover (2008), at the prestigious BELL Awards, conducted by Publishers Australia. More recently we won a Nomination as Best Drink Magazine (2010) and Nomination for Best Food and/or Drink section in a magazine (2010), at the biannual Le Coudon Bleu World Food Media Awards.

This award-winning magazine will:

• Help you plan a weekend away involving beer
• Tell you about upcoming events/festivals
• Feature the latest recipes to match to beers & cook with beer
• Show you how to get started in home brewing with tips, how to’s and recipes
• Feature local breweries
• Introduce you to new beers and where to try/buy them
• List all the latest industry news and awards

A subscription is a great gift idea that brings beer pleasure all year round! From just AUD$24.⁹⁹ for a 12 month (4 issues) subscription, its great value. To subscribe now click here.

LATEST NEWS from Beer & Brewer…

Beer & Brewer Best Beer Venue People's Choice Awards 2010

If you know a great beer bar, bottle shop or home brew shop, and want to ensure they are recognised for their greatness, then here is your chance to nominate them, as Beer & Brewer wants to join you in recognising Australia and New Zealand’s best beer venues.

You can email, post or enter online your favourite beer venues, based on the categories we have included, giving points for each of the criteria listed below. Make sure you enter the correct details for the venue, along with your point score, as Beer & Brewer’s esteemed judging panel will tally the votes to short list the finalists and then announce the winners in our upcoming summer issue, on sale November 10.

Click here to enter your nomination now. Entries close September 30.

Beer & Brewer Expo

May 20-22, 2010 Federation Square Melbourne tickets on sale now, go to www.beerandbrewerexpo.com

Magazine Subscription Offers

Receive a FREE carton of Gage Premium Lager, valued at $50.00, for 3-year subscription renewals, 2 FREE 6-packs of Gage Premium Lager, valued at $33.98, for 3-year new subscriptions and a FREE 6-pack of Gage Premium Lager valued at $16.99 for all 2-year subscriptions. To subscribe now click here. Hurry, offer ends 9.11.10 or while stocks last.

Summer 2009/10 Cook Book

FREE to all subscribers and copies of the magazine purchased in newsagents, borders book stores and specialty retail outlets (see our Stockists page for your closest outlet) for the latest summer 2009 Issue 11 on sale until February 16, 2010. 52 pages with 23 recipes this cook book is sure to impress all levels of home cooks and chefs alike!

Beer & Brewer Pack

Beer mailed to your door! Feedback told us you wanted to buy the beers you read about in the magazine. Priced to sell at $64.⁹⁵ incl. GST plus freight, delivered to your home or office door. Great gift idea. Hurry limited stock per pack. For more info click here or to order now go to www.microbeerclub.com.au

Beer Tours

By Travel Managers and Beer & Brewer magazine. For those that want to join a group of fellow beer lovers on an unforgettable guided trip, or those that want a guided trip that is as much about the destination as about beer. For more info click here or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Beer & Brewer in the media
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Forums and Blogs

This web site is brought to you to create an online community of beer lovers and entry level beer enthusiasts from all over the world. We encourage you to take part in our blogs, forums and polls on a regular basis to express your opinions and share your experiences involving beer in Australia, New Zealand and around the World.

Have you recently tasted a beer that you’d like to share with others?
Have you found a bottle shop/pub/restaurant with the best selection of beers, cider and whisk(e)y?
Are you just back from a holiday and would like to share the experience with likeminded people?
Do you have a collector’s item or beer paraphernalia you are trying to sell?
If you are a supplier or member of the beer and brewing industry you are welcome to use the Forums to promote your products, services, venue and new beers.

You can start a forum straight away by firstly registering then logging in and going to the Forums page.

Reader Feedback

Your feedback to the content we provide both in the magazine and online is highly encouraged so as to let us know whether we are capturing and keeping your interest or not. Please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to have your say and the letters we receive that are published in the magazine will win a prize. See the latest issue for the latest prize to win.

Thank you for your interest and support of Beer & Brewer / Homebrewer magazine,

we hope to see you visiting our site again soon.

Click here to enter your nomination now. Entries close September 30.

Latest Blogs

An interesting study was conducted recently, where Mindset Media, a market research firm from the States “specializing in psychographics”, interviewed 2600 people about their beer tastes and trends.

Latest News

Whisky World at the Oak Barrel
Wed 25th & Thurs 26th August
Time - 6-9pm
Venue - The Oak Barrel
Address -152 Elizabeth St, Sydney

The Oak Barrel will be immersed in the ‘water of life’ with Whisky World – a celebration of unique whiskies from Australia and around the world. Join us in the tasting room where each night will feature two master classes, each with a unique focus. First night is Bakery Hill and Isle of Jura. The second night is Limeburners and Springbank.

Cost - Starts at up to for platinum pass More info details –
For further details please call 02 92643022 and speak to our events team or go to http://www.oakbarrel.com.au/whisky-spirit-events/

Brewer - position vacant: William Bull Brewery, based in the Riverina, NSW

Applications and enquiries should be directed to the Human Resources Manager,

De Bortoli Wines Pty Ltd, PO Box 21, Bilbul NSW 2680,

Phone (02) 6966 0100. For a copy of a detailed job description please email:

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Applications close on Friday 16th April 2010.

http://www.debortoli.com.au/
http://williambull.com.au/