BrewDog Australia Collabfest, Brisbane | Concrete Playground Brisbane

For the past year, BrewDog has been serving Brisbanites plenty of cold ones, with the Scottish beer behemoth making this sunny city of ours its Australian home. Over that time, you’ve probably sat by the river and knocked back the company’s brews — but at its new festival, you’ll be encouraged to try yeasty bevvies from other breweries.

Called Collabfest, the weekend-long event will celebrate brews from four other beer-making outfits from across southeast Queensland: Currumbin Valley Brewing, Black Hops, Brouhaha and FICK. They’ll be brewing brand new (and unique) beers for the occasion, too, so expect to taste something that you haven’t sipped before.

There are two parts to the shindig. First, it all kicks off with a…