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This week the team discuss 14 day payment terms for small suppliers and how healthy is alcohol really? 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 Endeavour Group makes 14-day payment terms permanent fo...

And this week we don’t just learn about beer, we learn about potato crisps as we meet brewing quality consultant Clare Clouting. Until recently Clare was with Good Drinks Australia where she had worked as Quality Assurance Manager and Operations Systems Manager. Recently she founded Athena Business Solutions with the aim of assisting food and beverage businesses produce safe, high quality and comp...

This week the team discuss ABACs quarterly report and VicReturn appointed as scheme co-ordinator for the Victorian CDS Scheme. 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 ABAC quarterly report shows inc...

This week we meet Dylan Firth, Executive Director of the Brewers Association of New Zealand. There is always a lot of discussion amongst brewers at the smaller end of the market about things like independence and the market dominance of the large brewers, but at the same time, there are a great many issues that affect all brewers. As we have discussed on this podcast recently, policy development a...

This week the team discuss online liquor sales review and calls for real teeth in regulating large retailers. 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 Calls for ‘real teeth’ in regulating large retai...

This week we meet Nick Boots, who we last spoke with in early 2020 after his appointment as General Manager at Stone & Wood. Nick recently moved on from Stone & Wood having fulfilled his commitment following the sale to Lion and, after a break, he has recently set up a business consulting to breweries called The Business of Beer. It’s an interesting beer podcast when you’re quoting the from the Wi...

This week the team discuss Black Hops loss post crowdfund and what was the real impact of Covid. 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 Creditors approve Tribe DOCA Black Hops reveals large loss po...

This week we continue our accidental series on construction professionals who started a brewery as we meet Sonia and Guy Schweitzer from Scarborough Harbour Brewing Co. Scarborough Harbour made a bit of a splash recently at the The Royal Queensland Beer Awards, winning best new brewery and champion brewpub in addition to a number of gold medals. It was a strong result for a new brewery, especially...

This week the team discuss how to spot an independent craft beer and updates to the recommended pregnancy label. 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 Asashi to close Green Beacon production brewe...

This week we meet Cheyne Meehan, who opened Happy Valley brewery in Brisbane three years ago.  Cheyne, who was making a pretty good living as a crane driver, was bitten hard by the homebrew bug and, like many before him, decided it would be a great idea to open a brewery. As you’ll hear, underfunded, underplanned, and with COVID swirling, he went ahead. It was hard, and mistakes were made, as they...

This week the team discuss lactose labelling requirements, Lion to close Tiny Mountain and we say goodbye to Neil 'Pops' Whittorn. 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 Vale: Neil ‘Pops’ Whittorn...

This week on Beer is a Conversation we meet Dr Ron Beatson. It’s not many people who get to have the impact on a country’s industry that Ron has had on the hops industry in New Zealand. His research has been credited as having transformed NZ Hops from a cottage industry supplying hops to NZ-based brewers to a sophisticated export product with more than 85% of production now exported to the some of...

This week the team have an update on the Ballistic Beer situation, Better Beer are seeking capital and there's a confusing recall. 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 Ballistic Beer avoid liquid...

This week we have something a little different as we meet Bede Durbidge, one of the founders of Balter Brewing Company. Balter is sometimes - and I think unfairly - referred to as the surfers brewery, on account of the four very visible faces who were behind the business. While the profile of the surfers behind Balter undoubtedly helped garner some attention and stand out in an increasingly crowde...

This week the team discuss Asahi's deal with Live Nation, VBs high ABV play and one brewpub raises the drinking age. 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 Asahi signs exclusive Live Nation deal AS...

This week we have a great conversation with brewer Matt Brynildson.  Matt is Brewmaster at California’s Firestone Walker Brewery. He is one of those brewers that is quietly revered by other brewers and we were lucky to get to catch up with him advance of his upcoming visit to Australia. He will here for HPA’s hop harvest and, of interest to Australian brewers, speaking at the High Country Hop Tech...

This week the team discuss growth up but profits down for Good Drinks, Tribe enters administration and how you can leave us a voicemail for the podcast. 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! Moffat Beach wins best beer at Royal Queensland Beer Awards Growth up, profit down for Go...

English beer writer Pete Brown probably needs no introduction to our listeners. Apart from having been a guest on the podcast a number of times, his many books would be well known to anyone with an interest in beer.  Earlier this year, Pete tweeted about the dire state of craft brewing in the UK and the number of breweries closing. I wanted to hear more about the challenges being faced there to se...

This week the team discuss how container deposit schemes could be better and a great new ad for the 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! Lager recall commences Liquor ‘cycles’ down for Coles Group despite 3 year growth Australian International Beer Awards Entries Open...

This week we catch up with Paul Daley, Craft Beer Ambassador Leader, Education & Experiences at Lion. Paul recently travelled to the US where he passed his Advanced Cicerone exam, making him one of the handful of advanced Cicerones in Australia.  As you’ll hear, Paul has had a lengthy career in hospitality and liquor, but he is one of those people that has found a passion for beer and craft beer i...

This week is a big one for news including Konvoy's equity raise, and market fears end the Stomping Ground, Good Drinks 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! Konvoy announces equity raise and GABS partnership GDA & Stomping Ground pull out of planned acquisition Market fears...

Mountain Culture rocketed to the top of the GABS Hottest 100 just a few weeks ago, but that was the latest achievement for a brewery that has been exceeding expectations ever since it launched in late 2019, just before the world felt the grip of COVID. COVID put a huge dent in what were initially outlined as modest plans for a humble Blue Mountains brewpub. Their covid pivot seems to have paid off...

This week the team discuss the Better Beer v Brick Lane court battle, the downside of Dan Murphy's price promise and the latest update in the Ballistic Beer situation. 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! Better Beer wins Federal Court battle Brewers bear brunt of Dan Murphy’s p...

Just about everywhere we go, we hear opinions on the IBA. How it’s doing, what it should be doing, what it shouldn’t be doing and what it should be doing differently.  We have opined on this ourselves. But we also hear a lot about why breweries consider it’s not worth joining or why they are leaving, and this often involves suggestions that the association isn’t doing enough in some areas, or is f...

This week the team discuss the grant to keep Boags alive, growth for Mighty Craft and the Brewing in New Zealand report. 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! GABS Hottest 100 results announced Government grant sees Lion reverse Boag’s closure Growth for Mighty Craft despite decl...