Craft beer in Australia
Small-scale commercial breweries, now numbering about 240 in Australia and spread widely across all six states of the federation and the capital and northern territories, are commonly regarded these days as a regular part of the country’s brewing scene. During much of the twentieth century, however, beer making was exclusively the domain of one or two large corporations in each of the states, so the relatively recent reappearance of small-scale producers here, as elsewhere in the world, has been contrary to a long-term historical trend.