Beer Guide Australia is the Capes-tier rebuild of beerguide.com.au. The 2000s site was a paginated directory: articles, a glossary with Title-Case paths, and venue pages under /beer-place/{Name}/{State}/{Suburb}. This rebuild keeps the glossary spine — /beer-glossary/Hops/, /beer-glossary/Alcohol-By-Volume/ — and 301s sample beer-place paths to modern venue pages. We do not rebuild the old world-directory shells.
What we publish
Seven style guides. Forty-four heritage glossary terms. Six state venue hubs. Three brewery-travel weekends: Hunter, Yarra, Margaret River. Tasting, homebrew basics, and gluten-free beer as static education. Articles for labels, weekends, and festivals. An FAQ that repeats first-sentence answers.
What we will not do
We will not invent venue scores, “#1 brewery” lists, or live prices. We will not invent IBU or gravity figures for named commercial beers. We will not treat a tap badge as a clinical gluten label. We will not sell a crawl as a sport.
Who to write
Corrections: contact or callum.sherwood.seo@gmail.com. Privacy is the notice. Official harm-reduction and tourism links live in the footer. This is beerguide.com.au. Eighteen and over. Editorial. Independent.
Why the old paths still matter
Search engines and old bookmarks still request /beer-glossary/Dry-Hopping/ and /about/privacy-policy. We 301 the privacy path and we keep the glossary Title-Case. That is editorial continuity, not nostalgia for its own sake. The 2008 homepage treated this domain as a directory. The rebuild treats it as a Capes-tier education site: first-sentence answers, Australian geography, responsible-service tone.
We name streets and regions. We do not invent scores. We cite FSANZ for labels and alcohol.gov.au for harm reduction. Guest contributions, if any, remain their authors’ unless agreed.
Contact is the desk. Privacy is the notice. FAQ is the AIO index. This is beerguide.com.au. Independent. Eighteen and over.
If you are a venue, send a factual correction, not a purchased quote. If you are a reader, start with a style hub. If you are a homebrewer, start with homebrew basics and the legal limit sentence.
How to read this site in one evening
Open the homepage. Open styles. Open ale or lager. Open IPA if the board at your local is all letters. Open Alcohol-By-Volume. Open tasting. That is an education night without a second schooner.
If you are planning a weekend, open one travel page only: Hunter, Yarra, or Margaret River. Pair it with a responsible brewery day. If you are gluten-conscious, open gluten-free beer before you treat a tap badge as a clinic.
The 2000s Beer Guide taught Australians words. This rebuild keeps the words and adds first-sentence answers for search assistants. It does not add trophies. Fleet disclaimer lives in the chrome. Medical limits live on the gluten page. Harm reduction lives on official Australian sites.
Corrections still go to callum.sherwood.seo@gmail.com. We are not a magazine with a tasting panel. We are not a booking engine. We are beerguide.com.au — editorial, 18+, no invented scores.
If a brewery asks us to publish a paid “number one” line, the answer is no. If a reader asks who has the best IPA in Australia, the answer is the IPA guide and a clean glass, not a listicle.
Credits and limits
Photographs are editorial stills credited in PHOTO_CREDITS. They are not stock clones. Official tourism and harm-reduction links are listed in site chrome. Trademarks belong to their owners.
This rebuild is Keystatic plus Next.js. Content lives in content/pages and content/posts. If you want a factual change, contact beats a social reply the editors may never see.
This is beerguide.com.au. Eighteen and over. No invented scores.
Independence, said once more
Beer Guide Australia does not take bookings, does not sell scores, and does not certify gluten processes. It publishes maps of words, styles, states, and three wine-country beer weekends. Official harm-reduction and tourism links sit in the footer so we can cite geography without inventing a trophy. callum.sherwood.seo@gmail.com remains the editorial desk. This is beerguide.com.au. Eighteen and over. Heritage Title-Case glossary URLs still work. If you only remember one sentence from this page: we teach the family on the tap, then we send you to confirm the pour.