What's On | Sydney Craft Beer Week 2014

Heading to the announcement of the Sydney Craft Beer Week event in the final throws of Dry July may not have been the smartest move, but this was something we couldn’t miss.

Brewers, journos, pub owners and PR riff-raff packed into the Royal Albert in Surry Hills on Monday night for the announcement that many of us Sydney-siders have been anticipating for nine months.

Sydney Craft Beer Week is back… and it’s massive!

The addition of forty more events and ten more venues, 2014 looks to dwarf last year’s efforts and between the 18  and 26 October, Sydney Craft Beer Week will see 106 events take place in 57 venues across the city.

This year, Sydney Craft Beer Week (SCBW) events will be taking place in not just Sydney’s best craft beer venues, but also in bottle shops, pizzerias, bakeries, burger joints, cinemas, hotel ballrooms and the breweries themselves.

Familiar name’s like 4 Pines, Riverside, Young Henry’s and Doctor’s Orders are all hosting their own events across the week, as are out-of-town breweries like Hitachino (JAP), Six Point (US), Garage Project (NZ), Yeastie Boys (NZ) and Beavertown (ENG).

The suitably proud-as-punch festival directors Mark David and Joel Connolly list the Sip & Savour and the Young Cavalier’s Block Party events as their major causes for excitement.

The Sip & Savour event will be held at the iconic Eveleigh Carriage Works across the final weekend of SCBW (25-26th of October) and will serve as the official closing event for the week. Workshops, demos and seminars will serve as respite amongst the never ending tasting of over 250 national and international craft beers and ciders.

The Young Cavalier’s event will be decidedly less formal. On Day One of the festival (Saturday 18 October), Young Henry’s and Cavalier will be throwing a massive party at the Newington Inn in Stanmore with live music, tattoo booths, graffiti artists and a half-pipe providing some typically inner-west entertainment.

It’s only July and we haven’t had a drink in weeks but we’re fidgety with excitement about these nine days in October. Is it too early to start counting down? (only 82 sleeps to go!)

Visit www.sydneycraftbeerweek.com for more information. 

Written by Jackson Davey
Twitter @JDavey91