Beer O'Clock Australia

Show Notes Welcome back to the Beer O'Clock Australia Podcast! This episode is basically an audio version of our Golden Pints Awards, which we aim to do every year. Basically we run relatively quickly through 9 awards & then spend the best part of an hour discussing the main award; Australian Brewery of the Year. Hope you enjoy! Best COVID Pivot (1:48) Best Media (5:37) Best Retailer (9:06) Best N...

If this is your first time listening to a Beer O'Clock Australia podcast, welcome! We change the segments up a little each month, however most months we'll discuss some of the latest news from the beer world, we'll talk about some beers that we've been enjoying over the last month & we'll crack something interesting from my cellar, although recent restrictions are making this difficult... This epi...

Show Notes Intro Ben Duval - Collaborational (0:36) Inspiration Pairing the Breweries/Curating the Beers COVID - Challenges Plans for next year Collaborational Beers Discussion (14:00) We chose to approach this by looking at the brewery pairings, what we thought they would produce & what they ended up producing - rather than just providing tasting notes for every beer. Sailors Grave - Arizona Wild...

Show Notes Intro VB Perfume Update Congratulations to The Beer Healer on winning Aussie Beer Pods News (2:45) Victoria has a path out of lockdown! Vic Brewers excluded from Hospitality Grants Lion to close the West End Brewery Behemoth to Expand Again GABS officially deferred to 2021 New Venue Round Up Mountain Goat launch in Newtown (Sydney) Lost Palms opening in Sherwood (Brisbane) Semi Pro sold...

Show Notes Intro Thanks again Clare! Wayne's Website: https://pijiu.wombathole.com News (3:05) Carwyn Collaborational Goes Virtual Little Bang Wins Inaugural GABS Can Design Award Cavalier For Sale Black Arts Brewing New Home New Openings Galore1 Modus Operandi Opening a Second Brewery in Newcastle Philter Open In Marrickville Gage Roads Open Their First Hospitality Offering at Victoria Quay Mains...

  Show Notes   News (1:45)   ABAC Strikes Again Dainton Bounty Hunter Amazon becomes an ABAC signatory Coopers Launch a Hazy IPA IBA postpone BrewCon to 2021 Announce two key staff rendundancies WABA launch Drink West Drink Best campaign Australian Alcohol Excise Paused BWS Launch "Local Luvva" Tasting Paddle (15:15) Deeds Brewing Kill Off Quiet Deeds Australian Cider Awards Cancelled Michelle Col...

Episode 18 - Show Notes  Melbourne is back in COVID-19 lockdown & so is the Beer O'Clock Australia Podcast. Hopefully the podcast brings you more joy than lockdown... Hope everyone out there is coping with the constantly evolving situation we all find ourselves in. We've got a bumper episode for you all this week! If this is your first time listening to a Beer O'Clock Australia podcast, welcome! W...

 Show Notes News Items (4:00) Pubs & breweries can open again! Limited to 20, must have a meal, some not allowed to open Lion to import White Claw Where will Seltzer fit in the Australian craft beer scene? Isolation AIBA results Coles vs Beer Drop trademark dispute Hype brewery beers selling out Range, Mountain Culture, Mr Banks Bonsai Brewhouse make Worst Beer Blog Frenchies not far behind... C02...

Show Notes News Items (0:30) General COVID-19 discussion QLD good, SA bad Prancing Pony's Run In with SA Police More Awareness for Local Breweries Dans & Coles Both Pass Measures to Assist Small Producers CO2 Shortages in the US ACCC Approve Asahi Takeover of CUB ABAC Complaints Down in Quarter 1 Founders First Increase Their Stake in Jetty Road What We're Drinking (20:46) 3 Ravens Black  Lockdown...

Welcome to another episode of the Beer O'Clock Australia podcast. It's our first podcast that we've done remotely, so apologies if there are a few teething issues- although Dylan's done a really good job of editing as usual & we're happy with the results. We'll fine tune the process over the next couple of episodes while we keep trying to bring you content whilst still confined to our respective h...

What a difference a month makes! We recorded this episode in late February when the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was just starting to enter the consciousness. It's amazing how much our world has changed... In any case, I hope all of you out there are looking after yourselves & isolating appropriately.  If this is your first time listening to a Beer O'Clock Australia podcast, welcome! We change the s...

 Show Notes If you're listening to this somewhere with access to a screen, I'd highly recommend having some of these links open: Hottest 100:  https://www.gabsfestival.com/h100-2019-aus-main-list 100-200:  https://www.gabsfestival.com/h100-2019-aus-next-list Indie List:  https://www.gabsfestival.com/h100-2019-aus-indie-list 2019 Beers:  https://www.gabsfestival.com/h100-2019-aus-new-list Our Predi...

 Show Notes News Items (0:15) Balter Sale Discussion Investors, Independence, Hottest 100, CUB Portfolio Ballast Point Sale to Kings & Convicts Little World Beverages Buy New Belgium Anderson Valley Becomes Craftier? The Year of Local (18:20) 3 Breweries To Visit (At time of recording) Contract Breweries All Completed I did manage to finish despite Alchemy opening! Geelong & Surrounds Overview The...

Show Notes   News Items (1:16) Green Beacon sell to Asahi Independent Brands Australia become an ABAC Signatory Beer Cartel Survey results Phil Sexton returns to Matilda Bay - new brewery to open in Healesville Lion to launch a Hard Seltzer Aether Brewery founders to split The Tasting Paddle - Quick News Segment MoonDog World Sailors Grave @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration Tokyo Tinnies win World Beer...

 Show Notes   News Items (0:30) CUB sold to Asahi - $16bn Little Creatures Geelong Expansion ABAC Jedi Juice Ruling Royal Adelaide Beer & Cider Award Results Stomping Ground 3! Opening a Brewery at Melbourne Airport Capital Brewing Opening a Bar at Canberra Airport Zwanze Day Locations Announced Alcohol Free Beers (18:35) Heineken 0, Hollandia 0.0, Weihenstephaner Alkoholfrei Hefeweizen, Adnams Gh...

Show Notes News Items (00:30) Westvleteren begin selling beer online Omnipolloscope waxed can Perth Royal Beer Awards - notable results Southern Bay social media issues Ballast Point barrel program being scaled back Stomping Ground Moorabbin to open Scouting Report (12:45) The Year of Local wrap up 115 Grill & Brewhouse - not open for lunch on weekends... Moon Dog, Fixation, Molly Rose, Bonehead,...

 Show Notes   News Items (0:45) Dogfish Head & Boston Beer Co Merger Untappd Festival Quiet Deeds Transparency  Rochefort Abbey - Lhoist Berghman dispute More  information here BrewDog Update Marketing job interview issues Brisbane brewery Independent Brewery Association Seal - 12 months since launch Coopers launch an XPA AIBA Results 4 Pines Schwarzbier takes out Champion Beer! Find all the resul...

 Show Notes   News Items (1:00) Coopers win Maltser of the Year @ Global Brewing & Supply Awards First GABS Brisbane Gage Road's Atomic Project finally launching at GABS Brisbane BrewDog's Brisbane brewery scaled back Gage Road raised $6m for a new canning line Malt Shed & Malt Shovel settle their IP dispute Bucket Boys Crowd Funding Boatrocker turns 10, Exit turns 5   What We're Drinking (11:55)...

This month we had a heap of news to discuss, given how long we'd been away this was hardly surprising. There is also a a good discussion of our trip to Brunswick to visit Foreigner & Inner North. We chat about Dylan's recent trip to South Korea & about some of the local beers that we've been enjoying recently. Our 6-pack this month is Goses, which turned out to all be fruited, and we finished off...

 Show Notes News Items (00:20) Trillium HR & Quality Issues Wig & Pen Is Up For Sale Vale Marco Bona - SA Brewers Pull Together Bad Shepherd Victorian Pale Ale - Melbourne Ale Yeast Good Beer Week & Independent Brewers Association Merger Little Creature Open Furphy Hall in Geelong Panhead Opening a Taproom in London Slowbeer Close Richmond Store Scouting Report (17:50) Beer 360 - Craft Beer Shop a...

 Show Notes   News Items (0:30) Boatrocker's New Can Releases Molly Rose's new home in Collingwood Fermentum's new venture: Forest For The Trees Flagged shortfall in Malt Great Barrier Beer 2.0 Stomping Ground Movember Donation Garage Project - New Hop Development Scouting Report (8:36) Brendale Brewing Co. 2/62 Kremzow Rd, Brendale, QLD, 4500 What We're Brewing (11:37) ESB  Maris Otter, Two-Row,...

Show Notes News Items New Zealand Brewers Guild Awards - A Downturn in Results The Downfall of Australian Wheat Beer - An Equipment Issue? The Black Hops "Incident" Willie Smith wins Awards Rocks Brewery has bought & re-branded Scouting Report The Incubator - Fixation's Collingwood Taproom 414 Smith St, Collingwood, VIC, 3066 What We're Drinking Cantillon Zwanze Day Carwyn Cellars Manneken Pisse +...

Show Notes News Items Barrow Boys Closure Grand Ridge relaunching West City Stone & Wood's new brewpub in Brisbane The Pacific Ale trademark dispute is over! Matso's purchased by Gage Roads Mornington purchased by Tribe Boozebud purchased by AB-Inbev Sydney Royal Beer & Cider Show Awards Holgate's New Brewery & Visitors Centre.  Brewers Association of the United States Report Garage Project's Mont...

The new venture I was being very vague about in my post a few days ago was Beer O'Clock Australia's first foray into a new medium; audio. Dylan & I are going to give this podcast a go for a while and see how it goes. It's going to give us the opportunity to discuss beer in a way that the blog doesn't really allow us to.   We're going to rotate some segments in and out, especially early on while we...