Radio Brews News

This week the team discuss the new Lord Howe Island Brewery, Corona shortages and are joined by a very special guest.  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! Lion to build Lord Howe Island brewery Timely labelling reminder after low-alc slip Broo receives first CUB order Corona be...

This week we speak with James Brindley, Managing Director of Lion Beer Australia. James started with Lion way back in 1994, just two years after the launch of XXXX Gold, which gives you some idea of the massive changes in the brewing scene which James has witnessed during his career. We wanted to look at how a large multi-national brewing business changes its business to adapt to the changing time...

This week the team discuss all the big news about Capital Brewing and some big industry appointments.  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! Treasury Brisbane teams up with RQFWS for brewery prizes Capital and BentSpoke bag cricket ground beer rights ‘Iconic’ Foster’s makes a com...

This week, what happens when your brewery is bought out as we catch up with Balter’s Scott Hargrave and Stirling Howland. This week marks the first anniversary since Balter’s sale to CUB. For some the announcement wasn’t a surprise. The prominence of the personalities behind the business seemed to create an expectation that an eventual sale was the obvious outcome. At the same time, with all of it...

This week the team delve deep into tap contracts and anti-competitive behaviour, as well as VB's partnership with Volley and an update from New Zealand. 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!   Lion targets 'big' Stone & Wood with contracts Victoria Bitter partners with sneaker br...

The week the team discuss the latest big moves for Mighty Craft and Moo Brew celebrates 15 years in the business.  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! Big moves for Mighty Craft  Moo Brew: Still learning at 15 GABS launches Summer Craft Beer Festival Call out for breweries to h...

This week on Beer is a conversation we hear about what happens when your dream of owning a brewery doesn't go to plan. Passionate homebrewer Adam Gibb opened White Brick Brewing in North Lakes north of Brisbane in November 2017 and closed it in July this year at the height of the COVID lockdowns. While COVID was the nail in the coffin, as Adam learned, things don’t always go to plan and running a...

This week the team discuss refermentation issues with big and small brewers, a new hop launch and much more.  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! New board members at IBA as Philip returns as chair Coffee Milk Stout recalled over refermentation fears HPA innovates hop launch wi...

This week we meet The Australian’s chief cricket writer Peter Lalor. Peter has been a reporter for more than 30 years and is an award winning journalist and author and he has covered Test cricket in all parts of the world for the newspaper. He also writes about beer. With a platform in Australia's national broadsheet, he has a broader platform than just about any specialist beer writer in the coun...

  This week the team discuss the results of the Beer Cartel survey, the worldwide growth of zero alcohol beer and much more. 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! Beer Cartel survey Endeavour Brewing founders replaced in board overhaul Urban Alley loses trademark appeal  “Near be...

This week we head across the ditch to visit Deep Creek Brewing in Auckland. Deep Creek recently launched a series of collaborations with Australian brewers called the Lockdown Local Series. For a brewery that took out the small international brewery at the 2017 Australian International Beer Awards, we knew very little about its background or its approach, so Beer is a Conversation arranged `to cat...

This week, the biggest brands in brewing are making waves.  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! Founders First signs national cold store distribution deal Heineken to acquire Asahi Beverages brands Liquor sales up at Coles even as lockdowns ease BrewDog and Ricky Gervais raise...

This week we head to the Great North and chat with Great Northern’s brand ambassador Antonia Ciorciari. October marks 10 years since the launch of CUB’s breakaway beer brand, Great Northern, and we take a deep dive to learn about the things that have made the brand such a success, including how a brand brewed in Brisbane still resonates with those in the great north of the state. Antonia has worke...

This week the team discuss where the gains in the U.S. seltzer market are coming from and who wins in BWS local listing campaign. 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! Black Hops buys Semi Pro Brewing The rise and fall of Brut IPA, as told by its creator Two-thirds of US seltzer...

This week we Drink Beer and Think Beer, as we chat with US beer writer and podcaster John Holl. Regular listeners will know that the Brews News team are avid listeners of John’s podcasts, followers of his writings. It’s always great to just talk beer with him. This conversation was loosely prompted by a recent chat John had with Kim Sturdavent, who is credited as being the creator of the Brut IPA,...

This week the team discuss the latest in hop news and a big craft brewery takes a stand on a controversial social issue.  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! Lion plans to close SA’s West End Brewery GABS events deferred to 2021 IBA slams Victoria brewers grant block Check. Che...

This week we chat with Luke Scott who has just announced that, after 13 years, he is leaving the Prickly Moses brewery in Victoria’s Otways. Luke leaves his current role to join start-up Sou’ West Brewing in the old Quicksilver building on Victoria’s Surf Coast. Luke is one of those brewers who has seen a lot of his change over his 13 years at the brewery, one that you may not even have heard of i...

In this special edition, we catch up with GABS Beer Festival and Spectacular Enterprises General Manager, Mike Bray, and Festival Director, Craig Williams. It’s no secret that 2020 has been a brutal year for events. We wanted to catch up with Mike and Craig for a while to find out how they were travelling and what the plans were for 2021, and to get Mike’s thoughts on acquiring the business just m...

How will the 2020 federal budget affect brewers? The team discuss this in detail along with the rest of the weeks news.  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! What does the 2020 Budget mean for brewers? Vic Brewers Excluded From Hospo Support Grants Hotels group that struck secre...

This week we chat with Danielle Allen - co-founder of Two Birds Brewing. We have spoken to Danielle’s business partner Jayne Lewis a number of times, but not Danielle. In preparation for their 10 year anniversary next year, Two Birds has launched a survey to get consumer feedback on the brand, the beers, the business and a whole lot of other things that Danielle hopes will inform the business as i...

This week the team discuss the latest in low alcohol beers and some cool ideas to come out of the Covid-19 crisis.  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! Beer club resurgence helps brewers grow communities New president for Pink Boots Australia Stone & Wood launch low alcohol bee...

This week Stone & Wood launched a new beer under its main brand, the first since Cloud Catcher in 2014, and we catch up with head brewer Caolan Vaughan to find out all about the beer. As you'll learn, there's a lot more to this beer than you'll read in the media release. Apart from the chat about the new beer, we learn about Caolan's career and inspirations and also take a look at the beer market...

This week the team discuss a big brewer falling foul of ABAC and a government PR fail. 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! Brewpubs’ duty of care in spotlight after keg explosion settlement 4 Pines moves into All Hands Brewing House  Gage Roads opens Sydney venue this week VB f...

This week we talk Fat Yaks, Big Helga’s and Barking Ducks as we speak with Jamie Fox who was CUB’s Marketing Manager for craft a decade ago as Australia’s dominant brewer struggled to make sense of the emerging craft scene. It was fun to record some of his reflections on these times, and we hope you’ll enjoy the origin stories of some of the big - and defunct - beers from Matilda Bay. Our partners...

This week the team ask; is it too early for beer advent calendars? And where will BrewDog pop up next? 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! 2020 Beer Advent Calendar Nort launched by Modus BrewDog hunts for Australian bar locations Thirst. A scent by VB confirmed as fastest-sell...