Good Beer Wheaty is back for 2014, taking over The Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide during May. This year, the five day celebration of craft beer will be extra Yeastie. The pub’s co-owner, Jade Flavell, explains…

“We blame the Yeastie Boys. After several beer-fuelled conversations with Stu [McKinlay] and Sam [Possenniskie] atGood Beer Week 2011, we decided it would be an excellent idea to hold a Yeastie Boysconcept tasting at The Wheaty.

When, several months later the Boys invited themselvesto the Pub to make good our plan, we thought we may as well build a whole minibeer-fest around their visit – and so in 2012 Good Beer Wheaty was born.

With a nod toMelbourne’s very excellent Good Beer Week, we put together a collection of Craft Beerevents of the kind The Wheaty already hosts – but over a concentrated period and withsome very special bells and whistles.

In short Good Beer Wheaty is a very short, verycraft and very Wheaty celebration of good beer.

This year, the Yeasties are not only part of the family, they’re part of the furniture.

Yeastie Stu has adopted the role of co-curator of Good Beer Wheaty Yeastie in additionto that of House Spooner.

We’ll be brewing on the Wheaty Brewing Corps’ brandspanking new 600L Premier Stainless Brewery with Leo (Birra del Borgo), Stuart(Magic Rock), Shane (Sixpoint), Tobias (To Øl) and Darren (Doctor’s Orders). And Stuwill be there for each batch, making sure the buttons work, ideally while wearinghis Red Weyermann Overalls.

Come Winter, we’ll all get to sample the fruits of theseextraordinary collaborations.”

The week of events includes:

Thursday 15th:‘Rock Del Borgo’: Magic Rock and Birra Del Borgo Tap Takeover and Meet the Brewers

Friday 16th:SixPoint and To Øl Tap Takeover and Meet the Brewers

Saturday 17th:‘Skunkhour’: Beer Faults 101; ‘Is It Or Isn’t It?’: Faults v Character

Sunday 18th:‘The Art of Spooning’: Yeastie Boys Tap Takeover and Meet the Brewer

Monday 19th:Doctor’s Orders Prescribes

Some events are free while others require bookings. Download the full program here.

Event: Good Beer Wheaty Yeastie

Dates: Thursday 15th – Saturday 19th May, 2014

Venue: 39 George Street,Thebarton, South Australia

Tickets: all ticketsavailable from OZTIX. Call1300 762 545 or visitoztix.com.au

For more information: visit The Wheatsheaf Hotel website or call08 8443 4546.