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We are done for another year, and it was a wonderful week full of friends and great times. We loved seeing Melbourne's venues and breweries full of smiling people, sharing beer, conversation and Good Beer Week once again. However, we want to always improve the week. Tell us how, and you can win a ticket to an event every day for GBW 2022

Every year we team up with The Crafty Pint to curate the Pint of Origin schedule across Melbourne. Participating venues each take a region, state, or country for the entire festival, running a host of events, takeovers, dinners, and a general celebration of global beer culture. This year we have 14 venues pouring beer from Australian states and territories, plus New Zealand, Scandinavia, USA, UK, and Canada.

At Cryer Malt, delivering the world’s best brewing ingredients to Australian and New Zealand brewers has been a passion for almost 30 years. They absolutely love craft beer. The Cryer Malt Trade Hub has been a staple in the Good Beer Week program for almost 10 years now and Cryer Malt is back in 2021,

Coming out of Mona Vale (Sydney), Modus Operandi has been a festival brewery since 2018, each year releasing a special beer to celebrate the occasion. This year they will create a home base at Good Heavens rooftop bar. Find out where else they'll be.

The beer world would be a different place without Bridge Road Brewers. One of the originals of the modern beer movement, it launched in 2004 and has been leading the way since. This year it's on board as an Official Festival Brewery as well as sponsoring the Active Beers program

C​elebrate excellence in beer-making from Australia and around the world at the 2021 Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) presentation dinner. As the largest annual beer competition in the world, the AIBA inspire and celebrate excellence in brewing, beer packaging design and beer media.

Stomping Ground is the brewery from the team behind The Local Taphouse and (formerly) GABS. Now with its Collingwood home, along with an airport offshoot, and a brewpub in the works in Moorabbin, it's cementing itself as a Melbourne fave. We are excited to welcome them as a festival brewery for the first time.

Boatrocker has long been a Good Beer Week fave and has been involved in many great GBW events over the years. Continuously pushing boundaries with barrels, spirits, and hybrid drinks, amongst a lineup of great, classic beers.

There's nothing like a bit of friendly competition to bring us together.Whether it's finding out the best hoppy homebrew, who can eat the most wings, racing remote control boats in a pub, or debating what's better: East vs West Coast (IPA).