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Capital Brewing Company (also known as Capital Brewing Co.) is a
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-based brewery. It was founded in 2016 by brewers Tom Hertel and Laurence Kain, and has a brewpub in the Canberra suburb of
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. The company is one of the largest craft breweries in Australia. It was previously the beer sponsor of the Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants, which represent the Australian Capital Territory in the
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(AFL).


Awards and activism

In 2021, two of the brewery's beers (Capital XPA and Coast Ale) were voted in the top 10 craft beers in the annual ' GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers' competition. In April 2022, Capital Brewing Co. became the first Australian brewery to be certified as carbon-neutral by the Australian Government. In 2023, the company announced it would plant a native Australian tree for every goal scored by the Greater Western Sydney Giants, as part of its 'Kick a Goal, Plant a Tree' initiative.


See also

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List of breweries in Australia Beer production in Australia has traditionally been dominated by regional producers. Since the 1980s, there have been a steady stream of takeovers and amalgamations, and now the two major producers (who were once Australian-owned) are Carlton & U ...


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