gabs_official_guide_2015
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS<br />
MELBOURNE GOOD BEER<br />
WEEK FESTIVITIES<br />
Check out Steel ‘Adventures in Craft’ for<br />
fun, interactive beer-centric sessions<br />
DAN MURPHY’S MARKET PLACE<br />
The Dan Murphy’s Market Place is where dozens<br />
of great breweries (and cideries) showcase their<br />
regular range. Many also host excellent events<br />
at their stands and you can check out the full<br />
schedule in the GABS Official Apps or on signage<br />
around the venue.<br />
TASTE NEW ZEALAND<br />
This new area of the Market Place ensures you can<br />
sample a variety of beers from the best breweries<br />
in New Zealand.<br />
CASK ALE BAR<br />
A selection of leading Australian craft breweries<br />
are putting one of their beers in a traditional<br />
cask (as opposed to a keg) and perhaps adding<br />
additional or different ingredients. Cask ales<br />
result in a gentler level of carbonation, a rounder<br />
mouthfeel and often a slightly more complex<br />
flavour and aromatic profile.<br />
THE LOCAL TAPHOUSE ‘CRAFT BEER<br />
COLLEGE’ WITH PETE MITCHAM<br />
Hosted by beer personality, Pete<br />
Mitcham (aka Prof Pilsner), and<br />
presented by The Local<br />
Taphouse, the Craft Beer<br />
College features a diverse range<br />
of educational seminars<br />
Pete Mitcham including the popular ‘Q & Ales’<br />
where a panel of brewers<br />
discuss their festival beers. Free samples are<br />
provided! The full programme can be found on<br />
the GABS Official Apps, around the venue and<br />
outside the Craft Beer College. Entry is strictly<br />
first come, first served.<br />
LITTLE CREATURES CARNIVAL<br />
Inspired by fellow free-thinking and creative folk,<br />
the Little Creatures Carnival is coming to GABS.<br />
Popping up in the Little Creatures Carnival Circle will<br />
be mystery carnival acts perfectly matched to Little<br />
Creatures beers.<br />
TRIPLE M DR DAN BAR<br />
The Triple M Dr Dan Bar will be showcasing 10<br />
different styles of craft beer selected from The<br />
Local Taphouse’s hugely popular annual 'beers of<br />
the year' poll. The featured breweries include Feral<br />
(WA), 4 Pines (NSW), Two Birds (VIC), KAIJU!<br />
Beer (VIC), Modus Operandi (NSW), Holgate (VIC),<br />
Stone & Wood (NSW), Little Creatures (VIC), White<br />
Rabbit (VIC), Bridge Road (VIC) and Thirsty Crow<br />
(NSW).<br />
Drop by for a tasting paddle!<br />
FUN & GAMES<br />
There is so much more to GABS<br />
than beer so make sure you play<br />
some of the fun games around<br />
the venue with your friends… or<br />
complete strangers! This year<br />
the block-stacking, stackcrashing<br />
game of Giant Jenga is<br />
Giant Jenga<br />
back and will surely draw<br />
crowds. Or strike out at the new twin GABS ten pin<br />
bowling lanes. But certainly try Beer Twister, the<br />
GABS game that ties you up in knots and get you<br />
in a twist. Spin the spinner and make your move.<br />
Will it be Saison, Framboise, Brown Ale or Stout?<br />
The last person standing wins!<br />
FB*PROPAK BREWERY EXHIBIT<br />
For stainless steel fans, it doesn’t get much<br />
better than this gleaming display of the finest<br />
Italian-made brewing equipment along with<br />
a helpful explanation of the brewing process<br />
(Melbourne only).<br />
KEGSTAR KEGASEUM<br />
Table tennis is back but this year Kegstar wanted<br />
to raise the bar. So drop by the Kegaseum for a<br />
casual game or enter the fun Brewer vs. Beer Fan<br />
round robin competition each session.<br />
GABS is proudly part of Melbourne's Good<br />
Beer Week (GBW) which celebrates its<br />
fifth anniversary in <strong>2015</strong>. It has grown<br />
from an idea conceived over beers at a<br />
Melbourne bar in February 2011 to a<br />
festival spanning 250 events across 180<br />
venues that attracts brewers and beer<br />
lovers from near and far. Its aim from<br />
day one has been to entertain, inspire<br />
and educate people about the wonderful<br />
world of beer and shine a spotlight on the<br />
brewers, venues and individuals that make<br />
the colourful contemporary beer scene so<br />
exciting. The result has been four years of<br />
ever bigger, more creative and more diverse<br />
programming, always shot through with a<br />
sense of joyous celebration and community<br />
that spreads beyond the participating<br />
venues in Melbourne and Victoria.<br />
The Good Beer College at Little Creatures Dining<br />
Hall during last year’s Good Beer Week.<br />
Image credit Aaron Huang<br />
As in previous years, GBW has split<br />
its events into five ‘streams’ in <strong>2015</strong> to<br />
make it easier for attendees to plan their<br />
ideal adventure. They are Beer 101,<br />
Beer Lover, Beer Geek, Foodie and Good<br />
Times. Between them they offer chances<br />
for people to enjoy and learn about beer<br />
everywhere from Pentridge Prison to Vue de<br />
Monde with comedy, live music, warehouse<br />
parties and much more on the lineup too.<br />
This year the ‘Festival Hub’ moves to<br />
the heart of Melbourne to Beer DeLuxe<br />
to put good beer in front of an even wider<br />
audience. Like the conversation that<br />
sparked GBW, the very first GABS – when<br />
the A stood for Australian – also took place<br />
in February 2011. It’s quite remarkable<br />
how far both have come since.<br />
goodbeerweek.com.au<br />
8 THE GREAT AUSTRALASIAN BEER SPECTAPULAR <strong>2015</strong> <strong>gabs</strong>festival.com.au