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This week the team discuss Mighty Crafts sale of Jetty Road and Foghorn, and a new battle over tap contracts looms. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved 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! Mighty Craft sells Jetty Road/ Foghorn, Be...

Today we meet Liam Pereira, recently appointed Head of Hospitality and Community at Sydney’s White Bay Beer Co. Liam has had an incredibly varied career in the brewing industry. From pulling pints in London to working in a hotel bar with early craft beer aspirations, to working in bottle shops, to being a co-owner of Dave's brewery tours and Sydney Beer Week to working at Batch brewing and now his...

This week the team discuss Epic Brewing in liquidation and FSANZ is looking for submissions on nutrition labelling. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved 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! Epic Brewing in Liquidation IBA calls for...

This week we meet Leanne White from social and market research firm Insightfully. Leanne, or Lenny to her friends, is a former journalist and media advisor whose career has seen her move into the field of data research, especially in the area of public opinion.  Her business, Insightfully, is an opinion and market research and strategy company. But, Lenny and her husband are also small investors i...

This week the team discuss the purpose of Beer Cartels partnership with First Choice and the real issues with container deposit schemes. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Beer Cartel partners...

This week we talk the science of beer with PhD Candidate Kelsey Picard, one of the founders of Science Made Beerable. Kelsey’s scientific background isn’t in beer, but she is a beer lover and her developing love for it as a consumer tickled her scientific curiosity, and in doing so she has become an enthusiastic advocate for sharing the science of making it. In this conversation we talk about what...

This week the team discuss Tribe's relaunch, Mighty Craft review and Aussie drinking habits. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Tribe announces relaunch with clean slate Mighty Craft review rec...

This week we meet we meet mechanical engineer turned publican, Aaron Rigg.  Aaron’s story is like many who have come to work in craft beer…fell in love with the products, become more and more interested with some mates and then, after a few beers, found himself as a part owner of a craft beer pub in Maitland. As you’ll hear there’s a little more to it than that, but there’s also a lot to the journ...

This week the team discuss further losses from Endeavour Beer and is the craft beer explosion over? 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Fury & Son to Close Endeavour Beer announces further losse...

This week we meet Christopher Shepard Senior Editor of US publication, Beer Marketer's Insights, which has the tag line that it’s the leading source of beer industry information since 1970. In this conversation, we look at the challenges the brewing industry faces and what it means for breweries. We discuss the differences between the US and Australian markets, which is important when Australian b...

This week the team discuss the award for the beer awards, beer equipment bargains, and flaws in the tax system. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Peer Nominations Open for Indies Beer awards w...

This week we return to beer labels and branding trends as we again chat with Isaac Arthur from US design consultancy Codo Design.  We last spoke with Isaac in 2021, and wanted to go back to speak with Isaac as Codo has released its annual Beer Branding Trends Review, which is an incredibly rich resource for the brewing industry. I don’t think I am overstating it to say that in the incredibly compe...

This week the team discuss the current economic challenges facing the industry and recent brewery closures. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Lion to close Two Birds Brewing  Wicked Elf Beer t...

This week the team discuss the Perth Royal Beer Awards and the latest ABAC adjudications. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Latest ABAC Adjudications Perth Royal Beer Awards IBD launches Beer...

This week we meet Thomas Vandelanotte, head brewer at John Martin Brewery in Belgium, and makers of Timmerman’s beers and also Bourgogne Des Flandres. I will always have a fondness for Belgian beers. To some extent, that’s because they were among the first to show me that not all beers were lagers, but also as my career has developed and I have watched the evolution of the craft beer industry, bec...

This week the team discuss the sustainability of packaging, breweries capturing CO2 and why craft beer needs constraints. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved PakTech partners with Visy to manufa...

This week we have a really fun conversation with Revel Brewing’s national sales manager, Hugh Doyle.  Hugh has only recently started this position, joining Revel after finishing with Stone & Wood where he spend more than 11 years in sales roles. Prior to that Hugh had a career in hospitality, managing and co-owning pub venues - including time running a Vodka bar - where he gained a wealth of knowl...

This week the team discuss the focus on pokies and suggest a rebrand for the beer industry. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Matso’s sells pokies to focus on beer Hairydog acquires Boozebud M...

This one is rustic ...Sabrina and Matt catch up in Melbourne the morning after the Australian International Beer Awards to discuss the news of the week...but our producer Jo is away, so we have uploaded it unedited and raw. Apologies for the quality! We discuss the 30th AIBA's, Mighty Craft and the increasing focus on alcohol warnings.

This week we have a slightly different conversation as we meet Tim Maxwell and Alastair Gillespie from the Lord Howe Island Brewery. The brewery was announced in 2020, when I spoke with then Lion Managing Director James Brindley who, together with Chuck Hahn, told how Lion was working with the Maxwell family to build a brewery on the island. That caused a bit of a kerfuffle on the Island, as many...

This week the team share their disgust over Blackflags Barely Legal brew and share the other news of the week. Content warning: This episode contains some swearing and some topics that might not be suitable for young ears. 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! Leave us a voicemai...

This week we have a special panel discussion recorded live at the recent Craft Brewer Conference in Nashville. 2023 has been a pivotal year for the brewing industry here, and the current state of the market was a significant topic of discussion at this year’s Craft Brewers Conference. A strong Australian contingent was in Nashville attending the event and immediately after the conference closed, I...

This week the team discuss the fact that no growth could be the new normal for craft and where new growth could come from. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved No growth the ‘new normal’ for craf...

This week the team discuss Endeavours Q3 results, the toughest ever alcohol marketing code and whether AI is coming for the brewing industry. 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! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Lion ends Bevy,...

This week’s conversation is so wide ranging and interesting that we didn’t even end up touching on the topic that we planned to. The guest today is Brand Manager of MoonDog, which I probably should note up front as in the hour long conversation, we don’t touch once on his current paid job or his employer. But my guest, Miro Bellini, is arguably Australia’s most passionate, thoughtful and pragmatic...