THURSDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR BEERING
Got your end of #GBW18 plans locked in? Start your weekend early with awesome beer events today and Friday, including a few special opportunities to meet visiting US brewers!
Check it all out below and you'll be set for a massive final weekend of GBW18!
THURSDAY EVENTS
ENGAGED IN THE GARDEN
The Fitzroy Beer Garden team up with their WA friends at Gage Roads Brewing Co for an experience on how beer becomes beer!
Direct from the minds of the brewers themselves, learn all about the secret ingredients that make our favourite liquid what it is.
LAGUNITAS PARTY
Get yourself down to the Great Northern Hotel this afternoon to meet Tony Magee, the founder of Lagunitas Brewing Company!
Try their range of American style brews that are only now starting to reach Australian shores! Bring your dog along too!
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED TAP TAKEOVER
Silverlake Social have eight of Stone's groundbreaking beers on tap for you to sample (three of which are very seldom seen outside of California!) while you chat all things beer and Stone with the President, Co-owner and original Head Brewer himself, Steve Wagner!
GOLF SWINGS, WINGS & BEERY THINGS
X-Golf and CBCo are teaming to bring you a week-long golf tournament at Colonial Brewing Co's iconic Port Melbourne brewery. Prizes for longest drive, closest to the pin and longest putt will be up for grabs with the winners taking home some amazing prizes!
FRIDAY EVENTS
NEW BELGIUM TASTING
Fresh and hoppy IPA’s, delicate Belgian ales & one of the most highly regarded barrel programs in the US.
Meet Casey Kjolhede, who has been working for the US brewery for 16 years! This tasting will include international collabs, La Folie, and other barrel aged brews.
GARAGE PROJECT COMES ALIVE - MONSTER PARTY
Come down to Foresters dressed as your favourite Garage Project beer! Whether it's a Day of the Dead mask or the boxing Baltic Porter, there are hundreds of brews to choose from.
Try 24 Garage Project beers on tap. First 48 through the door in costume will get a can of BEER on arrival!
OLD BAR - BODRIGGY COLLABORATION RELEASE
Old Bar and Bodriggy have put their heads together to collaborate on a top secret Good Beer Week special release created in tribute to the Old Bar Unicorns footy crew.
Try the 'Speccy Juice' is a finely crafted Session IPA while listening to bands from 8pm.
MEAT THE YAKS
Yak Ales have got your Friday knock offs sorted! Enjoy the whole Yak herd alongside some delicious BBQ meats!
The Boatbuilders Yard will have the whole range of Yak brews on offer, as well as a delicious BBQ all afternoon long. Gather your gang, polish your hooves and come on down!
