Darwin Beer Festival

Looks pretty good.

 

Looks better then every single beer festival that has ever been in Perth or south of us.

 

Yeh Why are there no WA festivals, not even a ghey WA beer week this year
FFS we manage to have a "Chilli festival" whay no beer festival

 

Could it be that Darwin is seen to be an emerging market and Perth is already established as to why there may be no plans for a WA festival (or Queensland for that matter ) ?

 

I rmember Sticklbract saying ages ago, that most WA craft brewers were very opposed to having public exposed to properly brewed beer in WA

 

If the chilli festival is anything to go by, I hope we never have a beer festival again.

 

what wrong with it?

 

Perth coffee scene is exploding in the CBD, but craft beer is on the decline. I've been saying this about beer for years now. When did the last independent brewery open in the metro area? Priced out by imports and taxed out by the government.

Been drinking more espresso than beer lately. The coffee shops (Ristretto, Maven, Lowdown etc) are unrestricted, passionate & cool in a way I want my beer venues to be!

 

Problem is those who open up bars and the like aren't interested in craft beer the same way we are. They are more interested in cool wine cellars and pre-prohibition cocktails.

 

Agree, but they aren't even interested in those things. They are just rich business people who own another 10 bars, and know yuppies like those things and have plenty of disposable income to waste. I.e. cash cow.

The passionate people who want to open simple uncomplicated taphouses (like in the US and even in Melbourne) can't because its too expensive and riddled with alcoholic red tape. Who can afford to wait 12 months for approval for a liquor license while your costs are mounting up ?

 

Wow I thought Sydney was bad. That sounds woeful.

 

Like me.

 

Don't worry to much Perth guys, I've got some WA Beer Week plans on the go, should be pretty good if executed the way I want!!

 

like you as in the yuppie (substitute Corona for cocktails), or like you the passionate wannabe bar owner ?

 

The first one. Just make me a Corona Manhattan!

 

Lukie drives a X1 BMW has a massive breitling watch and wears a Tiffany charm band and was involved in developing gage roads el nino

 

All true.

 

Really nice list of brewers and beers. Quite impressed