Labor’s Anthony Albanese to take craft brewers’ concerns to parliament as new brewery association asks for level playing field

A range of craft brewers from Sydney’s booming inner west have banded together to make their voices heard by government, forming the Inner West Brewery Association.

The association is backed by Labor frontbencher and craft beer enthusiast Anthony Albanese, who has long been an advocate for Australian craft brewers and has taken up the mantle for the multiple breweries in his electorate of Grayndler.

Albanese’s support comes as he plans to introduce a motion into the House of Representatives to pressure the government to change unfair tax arrangements for smaller brewers.

Launched today, Inner West Brewery Association’s founding members include five small breweries: Wayward Brewing Company, Grifter Brewing Company, Willie the Boatman, Young Henry’s, and Batch Brewing Company.