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This week the team discuss BrewDogs new expansion plans and the disappointment over Colonials sponsorship loss. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Colonial ‘disappointed’ after sponsor deal loss BrewDog outlines ANZ expansion plans Alcohol Beverages Australia to drive jobs gro...

This week we catch up with brewer John Stallwood from Nail Brewing. This conversation is equal parts conversation and oral history about the craft beer movement, as John is one of the original figures in the current craft brewing scene, getting started in the late 1990s. As you’ll hear, it’s not been an easy road for John - not least trying to get started before a market for his beer really existe...

This week the team discuss concerns over inaccuracies in ABV and share how they'll celebrate National Local Day. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Concerns raised by ABV testing results Qld artisan legislation misses mark, say craft brewers Lion declares March 23 Australia’s...

This week we go to Bowral to chat with Cameron James from Southern Highlands Brewery. Southern Highlands hadn’t really featured on our radar apart from being a thriving little brewery in a regional centre. What put it on the map for us was an email from Cameron, the co-owner and brewer sharing his experiences going from working is hydrography to IT to brewing via homebrewng and going pro when some...

This week the team discuss the real challenge of recruitment post Covid and more losses as Broo extends ALM deal.  Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Sydney pilsner wins "Australia's best beer" at RQFWS Product Recall: Bright Brewing Pineapple Dream Nitro Milkshake Ale Blasta...

This week we have a postcard from Canada as we catch up with brewer Matt Hennessy who’s currently brewing with Collective Arts Brewing in Hamilton, Ontario. Matt is a podcast listener and sometimes correspondent, and so I was keen to catch up with him to find out how he came to be in Canada, but also to learn a little more about Canada’s brewing and drinking culture, which is a little hard to divi...

This week the team discuss the latest results for Mighty Craft and Good Drinks and a product recall for cider. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Revenue up, losses continue at acquisitive Mighty Craft Sales growth slows at Endeavour Drinks and Coles Liquor Record earnings for...

This week we meet Peter Howes who, for want of a better description, is the Patriarch of the Howes family that owns Brisbane’s Newstead Brewing. Newstead was one of the very early arrivals in the Brisbane good beer scene, and it was the first of those to really do the food and hospitality side of the business well in the city. While Peter's son Mark Howes was the face of the brewery and hugely act...

This week the team discuss BrewDog's equity crowd fund and the latest news in zero alcohol beer.  Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! BrewDog extends equity campaign after sluggish start BrewDog plans NZ bar with crowdfunding extension Divided views on COVID-19 alcohol sales As...

This conversation has been 15 years in the making, as we chat with Brennan and Peta Fielding, founders of Burleigh Brewing Company. Burleigh is a fascinating study into consistency in the ever changing brewing landscape. It was a pioneering brewery of the Queensland craft scene when it set up, but also much larger than some of the early start ups of its day. In many ways it was ahead of its time....

This week the team can't keep their chill as the discussion turns to exploding beer cans. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast!   Tasmanian brewery Boekamp closes, relaunches as The Albert Kegstar merged with US logistics giant Rocky Ridge diversifies and expands Government fundi...

This week on Beer is a Conversation we talk hops. But not hops in Tasmania, Victoria or Yakima...Hops in Brisbane as we speak with Andrew Carson from Hilltop Hops. The conventional narrative is that hops can’t grow in places like Brisbane and as you’ll hear from Andrew they can’t really be grown commercially, but they can be grown. The question is why and that’s what we delve into in this conversa...

This week the team discuss Mighty Craft's new customer rewards model as well as the latest on Broo and the other big stories of the week.  Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Broo announces Oz focus as losses continue Mighty Craft’s alternative reward model Good Drinks extends...

This week on Beer is a Conversation we cross the Tasman to talk beer - and the brewing industry - with Sabrina Kunz, the executive director of the Brewers Guild of New Zealand. There are so many similarities between the Australian and New Zealand industries, but many differences exist as well, not least of which is the approach that the respective brewers associations have taken to membership. Sab...

This week the team debrief from the Hottest 100 and discuss the issue of labelling local.  Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! BentSpoke rides to top of Hottest 100 Craft Beers Local love reignites labelling issue Good Drinks “overdelivers” in half year results Our Partners Rad...

This week's special edition is the podcast version of our GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers live countdown episode, recorded on 23 January 2021 at Brisbane's Easy Times Brewery.   Guests featured include Richard Watkins, from winning brewery BentSpoke, Stone & Wood's Nick Boots and Brick Lane's Paul Bowker, and Easy Time's Curran McCarthy.   This special edition was made possible with the support of Cr...

This week we meet BrewDogs new Australian General Manager Ed Bott. When BrewDog recently announced its Australian equity crowd fund we were surprised to see a new name in the media release - Eds. We then learned such a senior hire for the Scottish brewery was an Australian who had previously been General Manager of BrewDog Germany. With BrewDog being an endlessly fascinating case study on the evol...

This week the team try out a new format for the show. Let us know what you think by emailing producer@brewsnews.com.au. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Mountain Culture invests in new production facility Zero-alcohol beer adverts up against ABAC Alcohol packaging and hand s...

This week we feature Charlie Hodgson, head brewer at Brisbane’s Helios Brewing. Apart from having a long and varied career to discuss, Charlie also has some thought provoking insights about the role of beer’s four key ingredients and how they play in the rapidly emerging style pantheon of modern craft brewing. It’s a fascinating conversation that probes at where is the substance amidst rapid chang...

We're back for 2021 with a big news week as Fermentum snaps up Two Birds and Broo's China deal collapses. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Fermentum snaps up Two Birds Brewing Broo’s China deal collapses Brisbane Brew Partners closes ABAC considers VB Volleys complaint NZ Ho...

We start 2021 looking at brewery buy outs, in this case the purchase of Two Birds Brewery by Fermentum, the group of companies best known through its ownership of Stone & Wood. In this episode, we chat with Two Birds Co-founder Jayne Lewis and Stone & Wood co-founder Jamie Cook to hear about the background to the purchase, a little about the challenges breweries face in the current climate and als...

This is the recording of our live Christmas Eve eve show. We have some a great chat with Neil 'Pops' Whittorn who has just retired from Stone & Wood and we also hear from some of the brewers he has worked with and mentored over the years....and the usual beer chat you would expect. It's live so please take the audio and the cross-talk as you find it. Thanks to the team at Stone & Wood Brisbane for...

This week we catch up with Ben Kraus, currently in quarantine in Adelaide after recently returning with his family from Austria, much later than he'd hoped. We hear about the challenges he faced getting back to Australia as well as his experiences of Covid in Austria. Ben also spent the last 3 months fairly productively, commissioning and starting a new brewery in Austria and we take a look at the...

This week the team discuss BrewDogs equity fundraising, lockdown drinking habits and corporate taxes. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! BrewDog launches $10m Australian equity raise Asahi sells BoozeBud back to founders Study shows decrease in lockdown beer drinking Corporate...

This week, we revisit this important chat Pete and Matt had with Michael Bannenberg. Banners, as he’s better known, spent 28 years working with advertising agency George Patterson developing campaigns for many well known Carlton United Brewery brands during that time. He’s also a bit of a collector of brewery memorabilia and has compiled over 160 unique beer posters in his new book Australia’s Bee...