Come celebrate the beginning of Good Beer Week at the Festival Hub! Stellar tap list including the official Festival Beers, special guests from local and international breweries, and amazing DJ’s – it’s the perfect start to your Good Beer Week!

Join us to round off GBW in style. Join the beer community to wind down after a week of good times and great beer! Thank our fellow hospo staff who work their butts off to make this an incredible week!

We’re bringing the finest craft beers and tunes from the UK to Forester’s Hall this Good Beer Week for a tap takeover and craft beer party on a grand scale.

Beer Diva, Yarra Valley Dairy and Heron Tower Beverages present a breathtaking live opera performance enhanced by exclusive Rodenbach ales and one-off handcrafted cheeses beneath the stained glass windows of St. Stephen’s Church.

The annual scavenger hunt is bigger, better and more ridiculous than ever. Get your teams together for the most fun event of GBW with lots of prizes, giveaways and beer to be drunk.

The Fox’s taps will be taken over by the best female brewers have to offer, with our annual kick ass party featuring local music talent, awesome beers on tap, great conversation, and some questionable antics.

Brewers Brains, the ultimate pub quiz where you get a beer with every round! The Fox & Panhead Brewery host an evening of brain teasers, games and debauched fun!

We’ve partnered with Moon Dog, 3 Ravens, and Mash Brewery to showcase three sour/wild beers for the whole of Good Beer Week to provide an introduction to craft beer’s tart side, balancing it out with some sweet live music!

Premium Beverages present the Brooklyn Block Party; the most fun you’ll have this Good Beer Week with your pants on. Come and join the party for American BBQ and a Brooklyn beers. *Please note the location has changed from the print program.

Start your GBW with the finest Californian tap takeover, featuring special and limited releases from Eel River Brewery, and a BBQ in Dr Morse’s beer garden.

Meet, eat and drink with the Venom Brewing crew! New Venom beers on tap, giveaways and great food from the Fitzroy Beer Garden team. Venom’s amazing artwork designer and local tattoo artist Hal showcases special release Venom artwork.

To celebrate our new Stomping Ground Brewery and Taphouse in Collingwood we thought it was only right that we invited some friends from around Australia and NZ to come help warm the brewery, and collaborate with us on a series of beers specially for this event.

The official after party venue for the Australian International Beer Awards. After toasting the best in brewing, industry guests are invited to the Hub to celebrate. You too can celebrate with the winners at this fantastic night of industry excellence.

A New York City style block party at 5 Points Deli! Taking on the Six Point brewery range, we will be serving beer and sandwiches all day with 90’s hip hop blasting out of the speakers.

Get down to the Peacock all through GBW for exclusive Mountain Goat seasonals on tap, tinnies at takeaway prices & 12 pinball machines to test your skills. Events running Thursday - Saturday hosted by Jimmy Nails & LCM.

Mister Fox, the eastern suburbs’ premier craft beer venue -invites you to play in the Mister Fox Craft Beer Open. Play nine holes of golf at while sampling craft beers along the way!

Some of the best in beer can-spiration by the clever team at Beavertown is up for grabs with all proceeds going to charity.

Sunday Summer soiree in May: tropical Sunday session with booze, beach, & BBQ. Little Smith Brewing, Custard & Co Cider and Burn City Smokers are teaming up to provide your favorite combination of tasty booze and smokey meats.

There's rumours of a secret show and more when a new brewery space is unveiled at Bodriggy Brewery’s special do, hosted at the new brewery location.

An event highlighting life’s great food and fermentations. A farmers market festival celebrating rare breed and artisan meats as a visiting brewery challenges the resident brewery, Colonial Brewing Co.

Melbourne’s finest poets wax lyrical on the one topic upon all our minds, beer. Open stage entrants most welcome, with the crowd favourite walking away with a hamper of craft beer goodness.

Your Sunday session is sorted. We taste ten towering sours, including Rodenbach, Boon, Hargreaves Hill & 3 Ravens, alongside plentiful seafood treats with sweet soul jams from DJ Manchild.

Six Australian Beers, six Australian whiskies, six Atticus Finch tapas, all to the raucous beat of ol’ timey jump blues.

Over five days, Forgotten Worlds Arcade will lock their doors, turn all arcade machines to free play and host five tap takeovers from five different breweries, featuring Dainton, Moon Dog, Mornington, Six String, and Brewcult. See online for session details.

Lulie will have the brews of Thunder Road flowing through the taps and tins, Thunder Road will set up in the newly opened (and directly above Lulie St) Marfa Art Gallery. Marfa will host a slew of local bands playing the hits of Springsteen, whilst Lulie will keep the hits spinning downstairs!

Bikes and Beer: Join Bridge Road Brewers, and Rockwell and Sons as they hijack the Cycling Tips monthly Friday Sickie ride. A decent morning’s loop finishing at Rockwell for a beer provided by Bridge Road Brewers and a ticketed lunch at Rockwell.

Celebrate good beer and live music at the Coopers Malthouse. With local bands, guest artists and a selection of Cooper’s finest, be a part of the on-stage action as Melbourne’s hottest contemporary arts venue turns up the volume.

Cavalier Brewing present 40+ local and international beers at this years open day event held at the Cavalier brewery. Live music, food, prizes, and more craft beer than you can poke a stick at.

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS WEDNESDAY 18th MAY

Chef Nick Bennett from the Arbory Double Cheese Burger fame will create two speciality burgers to be enjoyed alongside gold medal winning beers from Thunder Road Brewing.

Monkey King and Dainton are throwing down the gauntlet to Melbourne’s cocktail masters. A one night beer based industry cocktail competition where the winner will be crowned King and will design a commercial release beer with Dainton.

Burgers concocted by, dedicated to and named after legendary Melbourne beer folk and breweries. We’ll stock the taps with their finest beers too and throw on some live music to start the party.

Join the team for a Coenfest viewing of Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski, complimented by delicious local beer.

Is your beard the best? Stray Neighbour will be holding a best beard/moustache competition with the help of Lords of the North Barber Shop and several brewing companies including Barrow Boys, Holgate, Kaiju and more!

Put on your furs, your battle helmet and sharpen your axe! Pigs and sheep on the spit, steins of beer and mead - this is how viking men eat! For on this eve we shall dine and drink like those who long since gone, that once worshiped the Norse gods.

Young Henrys/The B.East present the best Burger & Beer Fest in Melbourne! YH beer, DJs, and burger specials with a one night only B.East burger. Fastest to finish it wins some goodies!

The Cambrian Hotel with Tooborac Hotel and Brewery present an outdoor party featuring DJ Kodiak Kid (Melbourne), local boy Tonky, plus beer-matched street food from three of Bendigo’s edgiest chefs!

This year we bring you a Pirate Party! Come dressed in your best pirate attire and be ready to dig into some pirate themed food and games as SA’s Pirate Life Brewing take over the taps!

Pick your best pub-fit mates for a round-robin tournament between two local Fitzroy pubs, umpired by Murray’s Brewery. Who will take the glory? Play darts, hooky, pong and golf as you keep one armed cocked with a Murray’s beer.

This year KAIJU! is partnering with Nieuw Amsterdam to bring you the inaugural Beer and Boardgames night. Drink KAIJU!’s award winning beers while beating the brewers at their favourite boardgames.

Stone Brewing tap takeover including limited and brand new releases. We’ll be joined by a special guest from Stone to talk us through their beers, their journey and the art of brewing.

Join Hendo from BrewCult, and brewers from Chur from NZ in their first outing in Australia, Kooinda, Prickly Moses, Blue Elephant Cider (all Victorian) and Riverside (NSW), and a representative of Funk Estate (NZ). There'll be a food truck too.

Love trivia? Love drinking beer? Engage the grey matter. Bone up on your general knowledge, gather your team and head down to the Dan. Six rounds, six Australian breweries, six cases to be won. Bookings essential via GBW website.

A fashion parade inspired by Moo Brew’s brand - curated by renowned stylist Lara Reynolds - hosted by The Beer Diva at Madame Brussels. Plus canapes, Moo Brew beers and a gift bag full of pressies you’ll just love!

The ultimate arcade bar experience! Bartronica, Melbourne's fabulous arcade bar is opening it's doors for a special Good Beer Week event. Selected games will be on freeplay, you will have a chance to taste some of the latest Little Creatures brews and there will even be a Mario Kart Tournament!

On the final Sunday of GBW, we host a guided mountain bike ride around the trails of Red Hill with the Red Hill Riders mountain bike club. Followed by a social session of beer, barbecue and tales of extreme achievement.

Join us as we raise a glass to all things that make Melbourne pubs great, from the old to the new and everything in between. Good food, good drinks and good times.

Catfish and Cavalier have got the band back together, and present a Blues Brother’s tribute. Featuring event only beers and a blues ensemble of some of Australia’s best loved musicians for a night of blues, beer and good times

Learn the dizzying highs Bridge Rd Brewers experience with four pots, Trunk’s Wagyu Burger and classic trivia in the city’s biggest beer garden. Crazy! Trunk Garden Party II: Dig It!

Craft beer and cult music come together to showcase the latest local drops backed by the best local distortion fiends. Beers by Two Birds, Parrot Dog, Mountain Goat and Moon Dog. Excite your palate and your ears!

Brewmanity and Balter Brewing Co invite you Good Beer Week’s biggest ever fundraising event, as they unleash their collab brew ‘The Beast Tamer’. Get along to an epic Sunday session of great beers, music, & story telling, and raise funds to help cure MND

This year Killer Sprocket Comedy brings the best in local Melbourne comedy while pouring beers from Queensland’s Croft Brewing, including a special collaboration beer. Each ticket gets you two free pints!

Cult cinema in the Brewery. Back to back screenings of Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction & Reservoir Dogs. Wood fired pizza, four Hawkers beers, and two movies!

ft. Sunbeam Sound Machine & Dreamin' Wild plus Petty Crimes DJs on the deck.

Bring your fixies along for a tour of the iconic Temple Brewing Company followed by a ride to High street’s favourite live music venue for free live music, beer-inspired food & drink specials and rockin’ good times!

Seafood, see beer, see your fine faces here! Four delicious Young Henrys brews and four rounds of tasty food from Katie’s Crab Shack. Each round will involve a competition with prizes! Rock ‘n’ roll tunes spinning all afternoon with the party rockin’ late.

AC/DC Lane GBW party! Young Henrys party with The Ugly Kings and Atomic Riot. It will leave your ears ringing and thirsty for more! Young Henrys specials, live Rock ‘n’ Roll and a secret raffle!

Rock and roll and IPA at The Old Bar. The Oldie is an institution in Melbourne’s music scene. Fixation Brewing Co. seriously love hops. They’ve come together. First keg is free, so come along, rock out and enjoy fresh IPA.

Join Platinum & Shenanigans Brewing Co for a one off beer, to be presented with and collaborating in the screening of classic film The Big Lebowski. The Dude abides.