Radio Brews News

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 existed - but an assault in 2004 set him back personally and professionally and required an extended period of recovery before he could get back to brewing. With so much to cover, this is a longer conversation than usual, but it’s a good one. John’s story is one of friendship, persistence, adaptation and some really good beer. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations

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 National Local Day Gluten-free takeover a surprise success Consolidations continue as Ballistic buys two Dainton set to grow capacity ‘Time will tell’ on Moa’s value Our Partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage. Rumoured as the new Queen of Hops, Talus™ is available through your mates at Cryer

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 someone who enjoyed his beers stumped up the money to get started. Cameron and Ben support brain cancer research through www.curebraincancer.org.au. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner - and our premium podcasting partner - Cryer Malt is proud sponsor of this conversion and the Radio Brews News channel.

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 Brewing founder in 40 under 40 The real challenge of recruitment post COVID More losses as Broo extends ALM deal nationwide Binge drinking and streaming adverts in front of ABAC Brewers Guild achieves international recognition for NZ styles Covid-19 hits NZ beer industry hardest Our Partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine

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 divine from a distance. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner - and our premium podcasting partner - Cryer Malt is proud sponsor of this conversion and the Radio Brews News channel. Every guest on Beer is a Conversation receives a new piece of exclusive merch - a branded Yeti Rambler mug, thanks to our good

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 Gage Roads owner Good Drinks Performance ‘stabilises’ at can supplier Orora Product recall for apple cider Bucketty’s opens in Brookvale Entries now open for 2021 AIBAs Our Partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage. Rumoured as the new Queen of Hops, Talus™ is available through your mates at C

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 active in the craft beer scene as a prolific collaborator with other breweries, the business has always been described as a family-owned enterprise. An important part of the Newstead story was that the funding for it came from from the sale of very successful workforce analytics and workforce planning business that Peter started in the 1980s. Over the last 8 years the business has grown, and expanded to a second production brewery, and faced a lot of the challenges that expanding pioneering breweries have also faced. There has recently been some changes in senior staff, and Peter joined the business in a more hands-o

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 Asahi Group bullish as it focuses on lower alcohol Mighty Craft renegotiates Sparkke deal Investment an brewpub for Sobah Madocke to launch Gold Coast brewpub Our Partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage. Rumoured as the new Queen of Hops, Talus™ is available through your mates at Cryer Malt, so

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. Brennan was already an experienced brewer and together they were experienced brewery owners when they set up Burleigh in 2006, and both through their comparative size and considered approach to the craft beer ‘revolution’ exploding around them, Burleigh stood apart from the sometimes noisy and attention seeking side of the market, but was also a distinct point of difference to large corporate breweries at the other end of the scale. None of that is to say they haven’t been trail blazers, or fundamental to the growth of craft beer in the state, they have just gone about their thing standing a little apart from the

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 funding for Cheeky Monkey expansion Micro-scale mash brewing could lead to new beer styles Lion parent company Kirin cuts ties with Myanmar Donation page Linguistics of craft beer Our Partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage. Rumoured as the new Queen of Hops, Talus™ is available through your ma

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 conversation as we hear Andrew’s story of finding a way to get involved in an industry that you love doing something that you enjoy as what we might term an ambitious hobby. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner - and our premium podcasting partner - Cryer Malt is proud sponsor of this conversion and the Radio Br

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 Optus Stadium contract Mornington Peninsula founder supports NSW startup New owners for gluten-reduced brand Sick Puppy Our Partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage. Rumoured as the new Queen of Hops, Talus™ is available through your mates at Cryer Malt, so contact them to start taking your brews

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. Sabrina talks about this and a whole lot more in this interesting conversation about the role of industry associations and the future if the industry. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner - and our premium podcasting partner - Cryer Malt is proud sponsor of this conversion and the Radio Brews News channel.

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 Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops’ new proprietary hop Talus™ is bursting with big aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage. Rumoured as the new Queen of Hops, Talus™ is available through your mates at Cryer Malt, so contact them to start taking your brews to the next level. The 36th IBD Virtual Convention - Virtual Platform is on 23-24 Feb 2021. Visit ibdconvention2021.vfairs.com for more inf

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 Cryer Malt, Yakima Chief Hops and Barrett Burston. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops strives for innovation, quality and transparency through their 100% grower-owned network of family hop farms. Their hops are available through your mates at Cryer Malt. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Brewers, if you are still applying self-adhesive labels to your bottles and cans, and believe that this is a sust

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 evolution and state of the beer market we wanted to find out more about this mystery man. It's a great chat about a wide variety of BrewDog topics and also about craft beer in Germany. Enjoy. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner - and our premium podcasting partner - Cryer Malt is proud sponsor of this conve

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 sanitiser measures rescinded by ATO     Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops strives for innovation, quality and transparency through their 100% grower-owned network of family hop farms. Their hops are available through your mates at Cryer Malt. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Brewers, if you are still applying self-adhesive labels to your bottles and cans, and believe that this is a sustainabl

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 change and the consumer hype that drives much that we’re seeing in the industry at the moment. No doubt it’s a chat that will provoke quite a few thoughts, and as always, we’d love to hear what you think. Enjoy this conversation with Charlie Hodgson from Helios Brewing. In the podcast we mentioned this chat with John Hoedemaker and Aaron Heary from Gage Roads.  Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients

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 Hops assessing hail impact on crop Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. Hop in with your malt mates. Cryer Malt is proud to team up with Yakima Chief Hops to bring the very best Pacific Northwest hops to Australian and Kiwi brewers. Yakima Chief Hops is a 100% grower-owned global hop supplier based in the Pacific Northwest. Their mission is to connect family hop farms to the world’s finest brewers. Their hop products are available through your mates at Cryer Malt. Support for this episode comes from Ska Fabricating. Ska Fabricating builds reliable, automated packaging line e

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 also Stone & Woods plans to build a new brewery...potentially funded by an IPO. Enjoy the conversation. Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt, who we are thrilled to announce are back supporting us for another year of conversations. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner - and our premium podcasting partner - Cryer Malt is proud sponsor of this conversion and the Radio Brews News channel. Every guest on Beer is a Conversation receive