Radio Brews News

This week we catch up with Brad Rogers, co-owner and head brewer at Stone & Wood, Chair of the Craft Beer Industry Association and recently named Chief Judge of the Australian International Beer Awards. We speak with We talk about Brad’s career and how he got into brewing, the Sanctuary Cove brewery, the evolution of Stone & Wood Brewing and how the changing market has made them reconsider their b...

As Mountain Goat's Cam & Dave prepare to launch their 15th anniversary tour, we catch up with co-founder Cam Hines to talk all thing Goat. We speak with Cam about the business of beer, upcoming Rare Breeds - including a possible sour - the return of Rapunzel, their Goat Island answer to XXXX Island. Cam reveals there have been attempts to buy Mountain Goat and how they have dealt with them, and th...

In this episode, we finally catch up with Jade Flavell from Adelaide's - and arguably one of the Australia's - best craft beer hotels, the Wheatsheaf. But first, Matt and Pete catch up on things beer and mull over Coopers Anniversary Ale, and Coopers announcement that they are looking to make it the first of a planned craft beer range. When you get to it, you will realise that Matt didn't get this...

In a special release Radio Brews News podcast Pete sides with VB while Matt puts on the tin foil hats and sees shadows on the grassy knoll as the thrash out the Great VB apology in far more detail than you ever probably wanted discussed, as well as contrast it with this week's media release announcing Crown Lager on tap. We will still be releasing our interview with Jade Flavell from The Wheatshea...

Matt and Pete get busy and line up three interviews for this week's show. First we catch up with New Zealand Brewer's Guild Beer Writer of the Year Phil Cook. Phil is the man who coined the phrases Kegtris and Brandwank on his blog, Beer Diary. Then we catch up with Todd Venning from Beermen.tv and the man behind Sydney Craft Beer Week for a run down of this year's festival. Then, keeping with the...

This week we catch up with Vincent Ruiu, General Manager, Global and Craft Brands, from Carlton and United Breweries to break the news that Crown Lager will be available on tap from 3 September.  Of course, we couldn't let the chance to speak with Vincent pass without getting an update on the history of Crown Lager and Matt continues to flog the dead horse that is the fifth ingredient. We also get...

And Radio Brews News rides again and in this instalment Pete takes over and catches up with Matt Bebe of the Craft Beer Industry Association. Between them they talk about the association, the craft beer industry and a variety of other beer related topics. The winners of last week's Southern Bay t-shirt giveaway were: Dan Summers, Brett Tyrrell and Dennis Stewart. Your shirts should be to you soon....

What can you say, two weeks in a row and all because you wanted to hear it. This week after we have a bit of a chat about stuff that wanders all over the beer map, we catch up with Steve 'Hendo' Henderson, brewer at Southern Bay Brewing. In a wide ranging chat we talk about Hendo's career, his plans for Southern Bay, contract brewing and even tap contracts, which sees Matt almost defend big brewer...

Matt and Pete put their differences and grievances aside and get the band back together and back to their roots in a Simon & Garfunkel sort of way and put together a new episode of Radio Brews News. As it's been a while since we recorded together, we just chat about the old times and what's been up, during which we mention Good Beer Week, Queensland Beer Week, every other beer week that's coming u...

This week we meet up with Dr Tim Cooper, Managing Director of Coopers Brewery, this year celebrating its 150th anniversary. But first we catch up with Prof's travels to Tasmania for the 2012 hop harvest and the brewing of the Cascade First Harvest, then he talks about his experiences at a cider blending workshop. Then we introduce a new segment, or at least a new name for Matt's apparently now reg...

This week we head to Port Melbourne to speak with Matilda Bay's Scott Vincent. But then we get serious about our beer, announcing the details for the Podcast from the Pub with Professor Charlie Bamforth. This will take place on 27 March from 6.30pm for 7pm at the Great Northern Hotel. You can book here. In our interview with Scott we look at a wide range of issues facing CUB's craft brewing arm, i...

This week we head down to Newcastle and meet up with Corey Crooks, publican of The Albion Hotel and the driving force behind last year's Newcastle Craft Beer Week. Newcastle isn't the first city that springs to mind when beer lovers talk about hot beer destnations, but over the past three years Corey has turned his pub into a mainstream-serving pub into a significant craft beer oasis. We talk to C...

The gremlins hit the recording this week and a great interview with Jade Flavell from the Wheatsheaf and Steve Jeffares from the Local Taphouse was ruined. Rather than go without a podcast, we have repackaged a 2010 interview with Greg Koch from Stone Brewing explaining why he is passionate in trying to stop the grey importing of his beer. This interview created quite a storm when we first played...

Another almost regular episode of your favourite beer podcast created by guys called Pete and Matt. Today we again catch up with Professor Charlie Bamforth, a truly engaging guest who is passionate about beer but very neutral and considered about some of the topics that inflame passions in the craft beer world. Coupled with his easy personality and simple explanations, it always makes for a though...

Well, we’ve started the year well with two podcasts in two weeks and it’s a great one…if we say so ourselves. This week we interrupt Pete’s holiday to get his thoughts on the Ballarat Beer Festival, before quickly speaking with Brent Wright, National Beer Systems Manager for XXXX and find out a little about their new beer. Regular listeners might be a little surprised that we are doing a segment o...

After a long break, Matt and Pete get their act together and get a new show out. The first show of 2012 just features the lads talking previewing the year and having a general chat about beer. Head over to Australian Brews News for relevant links and show notes for the show. Stay tuned next week when we catch up with Andrew 'AG' Gow, brewer at Mornington Brewer. If you subscribe to Radio Brews New...

Roll out the barrel and sit down, or have a long list of chores ready to do while you listen, it's a long one this week. First of all we catch up with Al Carragher, owner of Melbourne's Great Northern Hotel.  Al discusses the journey that has the Great Northern has been on from standard suburban pub with strong mainstream allegiance to suburban craft beer temple. He offers some tips to publicans w...

This week on Radio Brews News we have a quick catch up with Simon Coghlan, one of the team behind the Ballarat Beer Festival that is being held for the first time in January 2012. Then we catch up with Brendan Varis from Feral Brewing. Brendan was on the steering committee involved in setting up Craft Beer Limited, the new national association of craft brewers. Brendan talks about the association...

Today on Radio Brews News, we meet British beer writer and historian Martyn Cornell. Martyn is the creator of the Zythophile site through which he writes about beer and beer history and, along the way, debunks a few myths. Martyn has gained some attention recently for suggestion the new Oxford Companion to Beer may be "a dreadful disaster" for perpetuating myths and inaccuracies about beer. He dre...

This week Matt & Pete chat with parallel beer importer, Sean Neylon, who runs the website saveonliquor.com.au and have a robust discussion about the ins-and-outs of importing international beer through secondary channels. In the intro we talk about about Pete's visit to the Wheaty for the Beer Wars screening, Carlton Draught's 'The Publican' campaign, and discuss why there are always four blokes i...

Radio Brews News goes straight to the top of the hops…or at least the top of Hop Products Australia, speaking with Managing Director Tim Lord. In the intro, Pete and Matt have a little chat about the SABMiller takeover of Fosters then Tim tells us about what’s happening in the world of hops including the gradual decline of high alpha hops, what they’ve got lined up for us in the flavour and aroma...

On today’s episode of Radio Brews News Pete and Matt are joined by Steve Jeffares from the Local Taphouse and Beer Diva Kirrily Waldhorn to talk about Steve’s plans for the SpecTAPulars, Barley’s Angels, the Women of Beer brew and all sorts of other beer-related stuff. Head over to Australian Brrews News for show notes and links.

In this show we meet Professor Charles Bamforth. Professor Bamforth has been in the brewing industry for 32 years, including 13 years in research, 11 in academia and 8 with the famed brewing company Bass. After an international search, he was selected as UC Davis' first Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences. He is also the author of books and articles about beer and brew...

In a wide ranging discussion with Malt Shovel’s Dr Chuck Hahn, we take a stab at the thorny issues of tap contracts, some new Squire beers and the history of the James Squire brand. Portions of a discussion that took place after we finished the interview have been edited into the show as they were relevant to the discussions. These portions are those that relate to the Local Taphouse and the histo...

Radio Brews News Episode 4 is now available online here and on iTunes. It was recorded on 21 June 2011. Due to your feedback, Matt has learned how to mix the track down to mono. Please keep your feedback coming. This week there were no sound issues (at least not to my untrained ear) and we had a great chat to former Mountain Goat brewer Jayne Lewis who is about to launch her own beer brand, Two Bi...