Pint of Origin is back baby! Our favourite 10 days of the year.
15 May - 24 May 2026
Hey home skillet! We are back with our biggest event of the year! That’s right, Pint of Origin is right around the corner, and we have some events lined up that are gonna be DA BOMB!
From Friday 15 to Sunday 24, May dive headfirst into the world of American Craft Beer! We’re talkin’ 10 days of the most fly brews from across the Pacific, and honestly? It’s gonna be all that and a bag of chips.
Expect multiple events (including 2 ticketed food and beer ones), an international guest, a special 90s craft beer inspired collab pouring throughout this 10-day event, a full American food menu that will be hella tasty, and enough fresh hops and barrel-aged heavy hitters to make you say "Booyah!"
American Menu.
As always, our kitchen will be cranking out American food specials. Prepare your arteries folks!
Book a Table.
With so much great booze on tap during Pint of Origin, we get real busy real quick - lock down a table in our beer garden or side room. If we're booked out (or you don't love commitment and just like to stroll on in 😉), we've got plenty of room in the main bar and streetside.
Events.
We'll be pouring incredible US beers the entire week, but find some very special releases and exclusive ticketed events below.
FRI 15 MAY • Pints and Panels Pop Up / Fonta Flora Showcase
How: just roll on in!
FROM MIDDAY
From the second the doors swing open at noon, we’re handing over 11 of our taps to the masters of the 'Appalachian Wild Ale': Fonta Flora from North Carolina. Known for their obsession with local agriculture and foraging, these beers are rustic, refined, and rarely seen in these parts. Our showcase includes multiple Barrel Aged and Barrel Fermented beers, easy sippers and bold IPAs, so you can enjoy the whole spectrum of flavours that these brewers showcase. Come taste why they’re one of the most respected names in the States.
4PM-7:30PM
In the Beer Garden Bar, we’ll be hosting international guest and award-winning cartoonist, Em Sauter (Pints and Panels)! Em is an Advanced Cicerone, international beer educator, and the artist behind those visual beer info and pairing guides that have been all over the beerternet over the past decade. She was chosen as one of the “40 under 40 Tastemakers” in 2016 by Wine Enthusiast and she continuously collaborates with different beverage media around the world. Em will be bringing a full stash of books and prints available for purchase (the perfect addition to any home bar). Get the opportunity to talk about beer with this talented artist and educator, and have your merch signed by the legend herself!
SAT 16 MAY • Cycle Brewing BA Showcase & Boozy Brunch
How: just roll on in + Ticketed Brunch
Tickets: $99 (+BF)
For 12 years, Cycle was the gold standard for barrel-aged stouts and high-gravity heavy hitters in Florida. Founded in 2009 in Gulfport, FL where Doug Dozark brewed beer in his Mum’s restaurant kitchen on weekends, while working at the iconic Cigar City Brewing. This led to a taproom opening in 2013 in St. Petersburg and after over a decade of releases the brewery officially called it a day last year. We’ve managed to get our hands on a very special cellar stash (and some of the last remaining bottles & kegs) that we're keen to share while we celebrate this amazing brewery.
This is quite literally your one and only chance to taste these Florida legends on tap in Australia. Here is how we’re sending them off for Pint of Origin USA 2026:
FROM MIDDAY (Just roll on in!)
From midday, when bar doors open for the general public, we’ll be pouring a curated lineup of Cycle’s finest barrel aged creations, including some of their rich, viscous, and world-class "Days of the Week" Barrel Aged series on tap! When these kegs are gone, they are gone for good.
10AM-12:30PM (Tickets Required)
Before the doors open to the public, we’re hosting an intimate, big-ass brunch in the beer garden! We’re pairing a proper American breakfast buffet spread with the massive hitters by Cycle on tap.
Expect classic American breakfast staples accompanied by 5 different Barrel Aged Stouts & Barleywines, plus a welcome drink to start. Comfort in the form of rich beer and nourishing food! Sweet, savoury, heavy and delicious. The perfect way to start your inner-north PoO Crawl on Saturday!
TUES 19 MAY • Barleywine is Rad! Dinner & Cellar Showcase
How: Ticketed
Tickets: $165 (+BF)
This event is a celebration of perhaps the most lauded beer style of them all; barleywine. Complex, rich and luxurious, if there’s one beer style that can change your life, it might be this one!
As part of Pint of Origin USA 2026, we are dedicating an entire night to this "liquid gold" with a beer and food pairing dinner like no other. We’ve raided the deepest corners of our cellar and combined those dusty gems with a fresh-off-the-boat shipment from our friends at Forward Hops!
Lead by our Head Chef Steven Jap and our Beer Ambassador and Advance Cicerone Tito Orellana, this dinner is a sit-down, multi-course affair where the kitchen and the cellar work in perfect harmony. Expect a lineup of high-gravity US heavyweights, some fresh and adjunct-packed, others rich, aged, and barrel-heavy.
The food menu is designed to stand up to 12% ABV+ beasts, with all the adjuncts and barrel character that they might showcase.
Tickets are $165 (+ booking fee) and include a 4 Course dinner and 6 Barleywines to try with the different courses, paired to perfection by our in-house Beer Sommelier who will be there guiding you through this flavour journey.
THURS 21 MAY • Brewery Launch: Drekker
How: just roll on in!
Drekker Brewing from Fargo, North Dakota (yes, that Fargo!) is one of those breweries that keeps on challenging what "fruit in beer" actually means. After the huge success of breweries like RaR and 450 North on our taps, we know how much ya’ll crave that daily fruit fix in beer form and Drekker is one of the most hyped in delivering that in the whole of the US.
This isn't just a tap takeover, this is the Official Australian Launch of Drekker Brewing! For the first time ever, these midwest legends are landing on Australian soil, and we’ve got the motherlode babyyy.
We’re dedicating 8 taps to the very best of these Fargo vikings. Including some of their "Braaaaaaaains" Series (their iconic Smoothie Sours: thick and heavily fruited), and their "Chonk" Series (Sundae Sours that are basically dessert in a glass) plus some more fruity numbers including a Hazy IPA and a Seltzer!
FRI 22 MAY • Allday Brewing Presents: Collab-alooza!
How: just roll on in!
If you know Allday Brewing, you probably know it’s the passion project from Pete and Dave, the masterminds behind Forward Hops Imports and the heroes that help our Pint of Origin event come to fruition. These guys source some of the freshest, rarest, and most exciting liquid from the US, so when they decide to brew their own collaborations, they go all out!
We are officially launching two brand-new international collaborations from Allday. They've teamed up with two amazing breweries from the States (we’re keeping the specific names under wraps for now) and we'll be launching these at the Carwyn bar with Pete and Dave visiting us all the way from WA!
In true Carwyn and Allday/Forward Hops style, we'll be taking things to the next level. From 4pm sharp, the Allday legends are shouting a whole keg of collaboration beer for everyone in the bar! First in, best dressed. When the keg is kicked, the shout is over!
Alongside the Allday debuts, we’ll be loading the rest of the taps with a curated selection of Forward Hops’ most recent US arrivals. We're talking fresh drops that will knock your socks out and a few other (collaborative) surprises!
SAT 23 MAY • NYC Block Party: Evil Twin + Grimm
How: just roll on in!
We’re closing out Pint of Origin USA 2026 with a massive, 90s style street party blowout! For the final Saturday of the festival, we’re bringing the energy of a New York summer straight to High Street with two of the Big Apple’s most legendary heavyweights.
Evil Twin NYC (Queens) and Grimm Artisanal Ales (Brooklyn) are taking over the taps, and we’re turning the venue into a full-blown block party! As well as some street-art inspired activities and games (for all ages), here’s what to expect on the day:
15 TAP SHOWCASE
A lineup of 15 beers will be pouring on the day, 8 by Evil Twin NYC & 7 by Grimm Ales. Expect everything that makes these brewers special: big hoppy beers, fruited sours, barrel and oaked ales, adjuncted stouts and easy sippers. A wide spread of styles to satisfy all palates.
LOUD 90s HIP HOP VIBES
We’ll be blasting 2Pac, Biggie, Cypress Hill, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang and more through the street-side speakers all day long!
FREE THROW COMP
Remember our free-throw comp from last year? We’ll it’s back! We’ll have a hoop set up for a basketball free-throw showdown with some very beery prizes for the skilled shooters. Start practicing today! Nothing but net, right?
This is the last hurrah for PoO 2026. Let’s send the USA off in style. Wear your favourite sports jersey, bring your A-game to the free-throw line, and let’s drink some of the best beer NYC has to offer!
