Aussie drinkers will be forking out more for grog from February 5.
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Punters will be slugged an extra 30 cents for a schooner.
Australia's tax on alcohol is the third-highest in the world and is indexed twice a year based on rising household inflation, measured with the consumer price index (CPI).
For independent brewers the added cost combined with recent economic challenges - a jump in prices of CO2 and raw materials - is becoming too much to bear.
"It's not a very healthy situation for our industry at the moment," Independent Brewers Association chairman Richard Watkins told ACM.
Mr Watkins is also the owner and founder of BentSpoke Brewing in Braddon, ACT and said the beer tax had jumped by nearly 8 per cent in the past three to five years.
He said local brewers were unable to match the prices of overseas-owned producers.
"We're worried the cost of craft beer from a local Australian brewery that has employees in Australia, pays tax in Australia, will start to be out of reach for many Australian consumers," Mr Watkins said.
"The cost of living is a real thing for every family and it's drastically reducing expenditure on independent craft beer."
The IBA is calling on the Federal Government to review the tax and provide more support for independent brewers, who employ 50 per cent of workers in brewing nationally, Mr Watkins said.
"All breweries get an excise remission of $350,000... what we're asking is that as the rates go up every year that the excise remission also goes up," he said.
Spirits manufactures call for freeze to 'unbearable tax'
Spirits & Cocktails Australia chief executive Greg Holland said February 5 would mark the 74th tax hike to be levelled at Australian spirits manufacturers.
The tax on spirits will rise to $101.85 per litre of alcohol, up from $100.05 in the previous six months.
"We call on the Federal Government to freeze this unbearable tax at the current rate for two years so that we can all sit down at the table and discuss a workable solution," Mr Holland said.
Sunshine Coast rum distillery Cavu co-founder Matt Hobson said they would focus on exports to limit their exposure to the spirits tax.
"We can't continue to pass these costs onto consumers in the current economic environment," he said.
