The Karma Keg Campaign

Drink the Beer. Fund the Fight.

Hops for Hope is back at Bright Brewery on Sunday 27 September, and it's the third year they've let me take over a few tables. All the prizes were donated and nobody's getting paid for their time, so every dollar raised goes to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

In June 2024, three weeks after my 53rd birthday, I was diagnosed with stage 3 locally advanced prostate cancer. I'd asked my GP for a PSA blood test at 50 and been told I was too young to worry about it. My oncologist has since told me I almost certainly already had it by then.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia. Around 79 men a day. That's why the Big Board at Bright has 79 squares. PCFA fund the research that's changing how the disease is detected and survived, and they've been a lifeline for my wife and me through the whole thing. Support when we couldn't see straight, and someone on the end of a phone at the moments that mattered most.

The donate button on this page sends your bit straight to PCFA from wherever you're reading this. No raffle ticket required. If you're anywhere near Bright on the 27th, come and say g'day at the Hops for Hope table.

My thanks to Mountain Monk Brewers, Mitta Mitta Brewing, Banks Brewing, Blackman's Brewery and Park Hotel Abbotsford, who each ran a Karma Keg earlier in September. Bright Brewery pour theirs on the day.

And if you're a bloke over age 45, ask your GP for a PSA blood test. If they hesitate, insist. 

Alan Blair