On January 21, the  Victorian regional city Ballarat will be the place to sample craft beers.

The one-day Ballarat Beer Festival  extravaganza will showcase a multitude of craft beers from some of Victoria’s  world-class microbreweries. Amongst them will be beers from :
Bridge Road Brewers; Broo Lager; Buckleys Beer; Coldwater Creek; The Good Brew Co; Hawthorn Brewing; Holgate Brew House; King Street Brewhouse; Kooinda Boutique Brewery; Matilda Bay; Mornington Brewery; Mountain Goat; Old Mout; Pipsqueak; Prickly Moses; Rebellion Brewery; Red Duck;Three Troupers; Tooborac; True South; White Rabbit.

Ballarat has a long rich history of brewing beer that goes well back to its origins as the centre of what became  known as the Victorian goldrush of the 1850s, when Australia experienced its first major mining boom.
Now local microbreweries  in Ballarat believe that Australian drinkers are going to return to their roots by switching to the local brews.