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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS MELBOURNE GOOD BEER WEEK FESTIVITIES Check out Steel ‘Adventures in Craft’ for fun, interactive beer-centric sessions DAN MURPHY’S MARKET PLACE The Dan Murphy’s Market Place is where dozens of great breweries (and cideries) showcase their regular range. Many also host excellent events at their stands and you can check out the full schedule in the GABS Official Apps or on signage around the venue. TASTE NEW ZEALAND This new area of the Market Place ensures you can sample a variety of beers from the best breweries in New Zealand. CASK ALE BAR A selection of leading Australian craft breweries are putting one of their beers in a traditional cask (as opposed to a keg) and perhaps adding additional or different ingredients. Cask ales result in a gentler level of carbonation, a rounder mouthfeel and often a slightly more complex flavour and aromatic profile. THE LOCAL TAPHOUSE ‘CRAFT BEER COLLEGE’ WITH PETE MITCHAM Hosted by beer personality, Pete Mitcham (aka Prof Pilsner), and presented by The Local Taphouse, the Craft Beer College features a diverse range of educational seminars Pete Mitcham including the popular ‘Q & Ales’ where a panel of brewers discuss their festival beers. Free samples are provided! The full programme can be found on the GABS Official Apps, around the venue and outside the Craft Beer College. Entry is strictly first come, first served. LITTLE CREATURES CARNIVAL Inspired by fellow free-thinking and creative folk, the Little Creatures Carnival is coming to GABS. Popping up in the Little Creatures Carnival Circle will be mystery carnival acts perfectly matched to Little Creatures beers. TRIPLE M DR DAN BAR The Triple M Dr Dan Bar will be showcasing 10 different styles of craft beer selected from The Local Taphouse’s hugely popular annual 'beers of the year' poll. The featured breweries include Feral (WA), 4 Pines (NSW), Two Birds (VIC), KAIJU! Beer (VIC), Modus Operandi (NSW), Holgate (VIC), Stone & Wood (NSW), Little Creatures (VIC), White Rabbit (VIC), Bridge Road (VIC) and Thirsty Crow (NSW). Drop by for a tasting paddle! FUN & GAMES There is so much more to GABS than beer so make sure you play some of the fun games around the venue with your friends… or complete strangers! This year the block-stacking, stackcrashing game of Giant Jenga is Giant Jenga back and will surely draw crowds. Or strike out at the new twin GABS ten pin bowling lanes. But certainly try Beer Twister, the GABS game that ties you up in knots and get you in a twist. Spin the spinner and make your move. Will it be Saison, Framboise, Brown Ale or Stout? The last person standing wins! FB*PROPAK BREWERY EXHIBIT For stainless steel fans, it doesn’t get much better than this gleaming display of the finest Italian-made brewing equipment along with a helpful explanation of the brewing process (Melbourne only). KEGSTAR KEGASEUM Table tennis is back but this year Kegstar wanted to raise the bar. So drop by the Kegaseum for a casual game or enter the fun Brewer vs. Beer Fan round robin competition each session. GABS is proudly part of Melbourne's Good Beer Week (GBW) which celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2015. It has grown from an idea conceived over beers at a Melbourne bar in February 2011 to a festival spanning 250 events across 180 venues that attracts brewers and beer lovers from near and far. Its aim from day one has been to entertain, inspire and educate people about the wonderful world of beer and shine a spotlight on the brewers, venues and individuals that make the colourful contemporary beer scene so exciting. The result has been four years of ever bigger, more creative and more diverse programming, always shot through with a sense of joyous celebration and community that spreads beyond the participating venues in Melbourne and Victoria. The Good Beer College at Little Creatures Dining Hall during last year’s Good Beer Week. Image credit Aaron Huang As in previous years, GBW has split its events into five ‘streams’ in 2015 to make it easier for attendees to plan their ideal adventure. They are Beer 101, Beer Lover, Beer Geek, Foodie and Good Times. Between them they offer chances for people to enjoy and learn about beer everywhere from Pentridge Prison to Vue de Monde with comedy, live music, warehouse parties and much more on the lineup too. This year the ‘Festival Hub’ moves to the heart of Melbourne to Beer DeLuxe to put good beer in front of an even wider audience. Like the conversation that sparked GBW, the very first GABS – when the A stood for Australian – also took place in February 2011. It’s quite remarkable how far both have come since. goodbeerweek.com.au 8 THE GREAT AUSTRALASIAN BEER SPECTAPULAR 2015 gabsfestival.com.au
BROUGHT TO YOU BY DAN MURPHY’S BEER NAVIGATOR Beers come in all shades, flavours, strengths and consistencies, from the light, floral notes of a wheat beer all the way to the ultra-hoppy flavours of an India pale ale. This chart is a guide to help you discover everything that beer has to offer. COL OUR Clean & L A G E R LAGER Cloudy & fruity P I L S N E R W H E A T B E E R P A L E A L E FLA V OUR MORE MALT M ORE HOPS FLA V OUR & fruity G O L D E N A L E and aromatic A M B E R A L E Dark & Dark & rich INDIA PALE ALE P O R T E R S T O U T COL OUR *Conditions apply, call 1300 72 33 88, visit danmurphys.com.au or see a team member for details. gabsfestival.com.au THE GREAT AUSTRALASIAN BEER SPECTAPULAR 2015 9
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