Brewpub culture in the Pacific Northwest is, by and large, a totally awesome thing. The McMenamins have clued in to the fact that there are a lot of different overlapping subcultures that want a place to hang our and have a good time. They have family pubs, Deadhead pubs, punk pubs, rocker pubs, business people pubs, film pubs and a lot of just fuckin good time pubs.
It looks like there's some similar pub culture in QLD, but I'm not sure as I haven't been there. I really want to do everything I can to make sure brewpub culture has a chance to thrive here in Melbourne and Oz as a whole. I'm not sure whether or not the US stuff would or should translate, but I am sure we can do it just as awesomely. Oz has the pub as part of the community much closer in its history than the US so it should be a natural.