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Our 2015 Festival of the Stone recap

With the sun slipping below the rooftops, turning the festoon lit sky above the brewery a purple pinkish red, children ducked and weaved below the shoulder to shoulder crowd who sipped their beers as they swayed to sweet guitar rifts and nostalgic bluesy tunes. A couple of weekends ago, we opened our brewery gates for […]

Wed 20/05/2015

With the sun slipping below the rooftops, turning the festoon lit sky above the brewery a purple pinkish red, children ducked and weaved below the shoulder to shoulder crowd who sipped their beers as they swayed to sweet guitar rifts and nostalgic bluesy tunes.

A couple of weekends ago, we opened our brewery gates for our annual Festival of the Stone. For us, it’s an excuse to throw a party and celebrate the release of our seasonal Stone Beer, but also an opportunity to raise money for the Northern Rivers Community Foundation, which from the income of their investments is used to fund community projects.

We put the word out and by the time Stone Beer was tapped, the people were packed in for the night. We were just so blown away by the awesome vibe and happy faces that filled the driveway and tasting room!

We’re stoked to announce that through gold coin donations taken on the door, the profits from the event and money put aside in Ingrained, our community initiative, we are able to donate almost $10,000 to the NRCF.

We’d like to thank everyone who came out to enjoy a beer and to the food stalls, bands and helpers that made it an unforgettable evening.

Festival of the Stone 2015

You just bring yourself, family and friends…We’ve got the rest sorted! As days become short, we release our seasonal Stone Beer to warm you on the cool clear nights of Winter. To kick it all off we’re holding our annual Festival of the Stone at our brewery in Byron on 9 May. A part from launching our […]

Fri 24/04/2015

You just bring yourself, family and friends…We’ve got the rest sorted!

As days become short, we release our seasonal Stone Beer to warm you on the cool clear nights of Winter.

To kick it all off we’re holding our annual Festival of the Stone at our brewery in Byron on 9 May.

A part from launching our limited release, it is an occasion for us to bring the community together and celebrate with beers, great food and awesome live, local music.

We’ve got JR Smokehouse coming down with his smoker to serve up hearty plates that are made for drinking beer and 100 Mile Table will be serving up there usual delicious locally sourced fare (yes, we’ve got vegos covered too).

Brisbane slide guitarist Pat Tierney will be putting up fresh folky tunes, followed by local psychedelic band The Babe Rainbow who’ve just been announced on the Splendour line up.

We’ll be holding screen printing workshops throughout the day, where you can come and print your own calico bag with one of our designs.

Like last year, it will be gold coin entry. These along with the profits from our beer will go through our Ingrained Community Program to the Northern Rivers Community Fund which directly helps local not-for-profit organisations. Last year with the help of the other stallholders we raised over $4000 and we would love to be able to do it again this year! For every dollar donated, you will receive a raffle ticket and go into the draw to win local prize packs kindly donated by Afends, McTavish, Thrills, Salumi, DHD and more!

So block out the date and drop into the brewery from 4-10pm and connect with like minded people and families. Mother’s Day’s the next day, so why don’t you bring her along too!

The Babe Rainbow

Pat Tierney

Flash back to Festival of the Stone 2014

Check out the latest Stone Beer

$4k Raised for Charity

Our Murwillumbah brewery is finally up and running and with Bonnie venturing south to Melbourne, bringing our Holidaze event to a back lane in Brunswick, then rolling on through the craziness of Good Beer Week into the following weekend at the mecca that is GABS, one minute it was May and next, Stone Beer (stockist […]

Tue 3/06/2014

Our Murwillumbah brewery is finally up and running and with Bonnie venturing south to Melbourne, bringing our Holidaze event to a back lane in Brunswick, then rolling on through the craziness of Good Beer Week into the following weekend at the mecca that is GABS, one minute it was May and next, Stone Beer (stockist list here) has welcomed Winter, signally June.

There was a lot to wrap up from the massive month of May and there was nothing better to finish on than working out what Festival of the Stone raised for the Northern Rivers Community Foundation.

Backtracking to that fateful night of Festival of the Stone in early May, as a part of our Ingrained Community Program, we pledged that the profits made from beer sales would go to the NRCF. Local businesses jumped on board with Jack the Snipper making a whole lot of gentlemen leave the event looking sharper than when they arrived, Art Park giving punters the opportunity to have a crack at screen printing and Salumi and 100 Mile Table making sure no one went hungry with their delicious fare and Element donating some epic giveaways!

Together we raised $2995 plus an additional $1,256 from the gold coin donations made by all those who came to the brewery to enjoy the night. Thank you again to everyone who made it such a great night! This donation will generate income that will fund the NRCF’s annual grants program.

May was a mammoth month, bring on June and Winter!

Melbourne

Holidaze Melbourne

GABS 2014

Handing over the cheque with Teresa Bassham (NRCF Marketing Committee Chair), Michelle Macnamara (Jack the Snipper), Phil Daly (NRCF Director), Jamie Revell (Stone & Wood), Paul McNeil (The Art Park Co-owner).

Opening the Brewery Doors

It was an earlier start than usual on Saturday morning, as Brad shared the spotlight with Weekend Sunrise’s James Tobin. It felt like the day was done when the camera’s were put away at nine thirty but that was just the beginning… We were ready for the afternoon to roll into the evening, when the […]

Thu 15/05/2014

It was an earlier start than usual on Saturday morning, as Brad shared the spotlight with Weekend Sunrise’s James Tobin. It felt like the day was done when the camera’s were put away at nine thirty but that was just the beginning… We were ready for the afternoon to roll into the evening, when the gates would open and the Stone Beer would flow for Festival of the Stone.

The dollar coin donations for the Northern Rivers Community Fund rattled in our half kegs before the 3pm kick off and as the sun set locals, friends, tourists, lycra wearing Byron Triathlon participants, customers and die hard Festival of the Stone devoted attendees – from Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and even Goodiwindi packed into our brewery.

Jack the Snipper barely stopped for a sip of beer, punters had a crack at Art Park’s screen printing stall and people filled their bellies with locally sourced produce by Salumi Australia and street food by 100 Mile Table.

As Andrea Soler got the crowd inside our brewery jamming, people gravitated toward our caravan and its flowing beer taps, especially when the call came that the first keg of 2014 Stone Beer had been tapped.

We couldn’t have been happier with the incredible turn out of people and support from the local community, we just hope you had as much fun as we did!

Stone Beer is now out and starting to hit taps along the East coast – for a full listing check here

Our caravan Bonnie, left the Bay enroute to Melbourne for Good Beer Week and GABS. She’ll be pouring all your faves plus Stone Beer on Saturday night at Holidaze from 4pm at Monster & Bear – if you’re in town, see you there!