Radio Brews News

Pete and Matt catch up to debate the hard news over a hard iced tea and find out if ice in your pacific ale is "a thing". Shopping centres provide a new home for craft beer Bottle shops and venues in the ABAC firing line CUB snaps up canned wine company Riot Shock revelation - Queenslanders put ice in their ‘Pak’Ales. Will hard iced teas take off in Australia? No beer on a dead planet Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts A

This week we chat with Paul Halsey CEO of UK's Purity Brewing. Regular listeners will know that we tend to have a preference for local beer on radio Brews News. As a rule, beer doesn't travel well. And as we become more environmentally aware it seems inconsistent to seek out beers that have travelled thousands of kms when local versions exist. Purity and Prancing Pony have entered an agreement to brew their beers reciprocally to ensure a reduced carbon footprint and to support and encourage sustainable beer production. Paul is currently in Australia to brew the initial batch of Purity's Session IPA with Prancing Pony. In a week that many in the brewing industry are sending the message that there are no beers on a dead planet, we thought it worth sitting down with Paul to find out more about Purity and its arrangement with Prancing Pony. Enjoy the conversation. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and

Our coverage of BrewCon19 was made possible by Bintani, who are not only providing brewers with the finest ingredients, they gave us the opportunity to bring you the finest guests live. This week, Rodenbach’s Rudi Ghequire. His BrewCon bio reads thus. "Born in the shadow of the historic Rodenbach Brewery in Belgium, Rudi Ghequire has spent the last 37 years advancing the legacy of the region’s distinctive sour beer, brewing with a combination of old-world and new-world technologies. Rodenbach has long been the darling of beer enthusiasts with Rudi at the helm as the modern day father of sour beer." He was promoted to Brewmaster in 1994 the post he holds today 25 years later. A lover of tradition but never its slave and a passionate advocate for good beer. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Rudi Ghequire. BrewCon 2020 will take place on September 21 and 22 next year. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite po

Brews News Week is our look back on the beer news of the week. This week we look at: CUB’s viral marketing win with VB Great Northern’s Father’s Day Campaign Byron Bay Brewery’s lager’s bottle is clearer than its orgin  Deschutes Unveils New FMB Brand Modified Theory at Distributor Summit Are alcohol companies using digital marketing to target minors Colorado football eliminating plastic beer cups at home games   Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. Lastly we thank Unleashed Software for supporting the show. Unleashed is more than inventory management software. It’s a system that runs your whole business operations and gives you an un

This week we hear from Sam Hambour, co-founder with friend Duncan Gibson, of Hop Nation. Sam is a straight shooter and we chat about his move from the wine industry to creating a contract brand and growing it to opening their own brewery. We hear a little about about their philosophy and approach to brewing, what they have learned about running a business from running a business and how, while they were anticipating potential legal issues about Jedi Juice, they were a little blind sided by their run in with ABAC. Enjoy the conversation. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Spons

This is the first of our special editions of Radio Brews Brews recorded live at BrewCon 19. Our coverage of BrewCon19 was made possible by Bintani, who are not only providing brewers with the finest ingredients, they gave us the opportunity to bring you the finest guests live. We were grateful to the IBA that they engaged with us as their official media partner and we had a studio to record some great chats that you will get to enjoy over coming weeks. Anyone who thinks and reads about beer should know Pete Brown. He’s been named British Beer Writer of the Year multiple times, as well as publishing books on beer, beer culture and beer history including Man Walks into a Pub, Three Sheets to the Wine and Hops and Glory. Pete gave the keynote presentation at BrewCon and gave his audience plenty to think about. If you’re an IBA member, you will have access to his presentation in coming weeks and it is a good reason to join if you’re not. We pick up on a couple of the themes he raised in his keynote, as well

Pete and Matt record live from BrewCon 2019 to discuss the news of the week.  IBA launches Indie Beer Day Shakeup as Cryer Malt and Bintani swap malt suppliers No shit: This beer was made from Berlin's recycled wastewater Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts All letter writers will receive a brews news bottle opener and go into the draw to win a mixed six-pack thanks to our good friends at Beer Cartel who sponsor our letter for

This week we chat with Mike Bennie, a drinks writer and one of the Founders of the Drink Easy Awards. The Drink Easy Awards promises beers will be judged, not against style, but in an egalitarian system aimed at elevating collections of drinks that represent not only the notion of high quality but the development and creativity found within their community. Topher Boehm even wrote in to say that this was not just another drinks awards. He said the awards were born out of frustration of style based competitions where more creative drinks can sometimes miss out. Hope you enjoy Matt's chat with Mike Bennie. You can enter the Drink Easy Awards here. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get you

As millennials shun beer because of its carbs, Pete and Matt discuss the origins of the beer gut. And of course the big news stories of the week: Green Beacon ineligible for Indies Independent Brands Australia becomes a signatory to Alcohol Marketing Regulator Lion microbrewery scaled back after Townsville objections Spanish brewer Mahou to acquire Founders Brewing Millennials are shunning beer because they say it makes them 'fat' Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. Lastly we thank Unleashed Software for supporting the show. Unleashed is more than inventory management software. It’s a system that runs your whole business operations and

Beer is a Conversation is our weekly sit down with some of the people who make the beer industry the interesting and dynamic industry it is and through these conversations we dig a little deeper into the stories behind the business of beer and brewing. And this week’s conversation is a deeper dive on steroids as we chat with Stone & Wood’s Jamie Cook. Jamie is no stranger to Radio Brews News, if just as the namesake for the Cook limit. But more importantly he has been a frequent guest through his roles as a founder of Stone & Wood, and of the Craft Beer Industry Association and now Chair of the Independent Brewers Association board. For all of those conversations, we haven’t talked much about Jamie himself. Last week Jamie turned sixty and this week he has issued a statement saying that many years ago he made a promise to himself that he would use that milestone to reset his priorities to give more time to himself, his family and adventure whilst winding back from a day to day working life. As such he has a

Details emerge around the sale of Green Beacon as Matt and Pete discuss the brews news of the week. Green Beacon sale rumours finally true Is this beer name ok Countdown is on for BrewCon 2019 ‘Miscommunication’ behind Swan Valley exclusion Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts All letter writers will receive a brews news bottle opener and go into the draw to win a mixed six-pack thanks to our good friends at Beer Cartel who s

Thanks to our Malt Mates at Cryer Malt, welcome to a special breaking news edition of Beer is a Conversation. Well, it’s Australian craft brewing’s longest running rumour finally proved true today when Brisbane’s Green Beacon announced the full sale of the business to Asahi. There will be a million views on the sale, but we decided to go straight to co-founder Adrian Slaughter and get his story on the rumours, the sale and the future of Green Beacon.  As you would expect there is a lot of “nothing will change and this is good for the business” but I try to dig a little deeper into that and there is a lot more besides platitudes in this chat. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your

Thanks to Bintani this is a special edition of Radio Brews News, live from the West Australian Brewers Association Craft Brewers Conference. Today we have two conversations. Firstly Rhys Lopez, Head Brewer from Otherside Brewing and then Dylan Hunter from Cheeky Monkey. Both are brewers who, on their way to other places, fell into craft beer and then into brewing. Rhys was a young journalism student who 14 years ago was saved from taking a part time job as a supermarket night filler by a friend who instead got him a job as a glassy at Little Creatures and changed his life forever. Then we have Cheeky Monkey's Dylan Hunter who started working in wine packaging before discovering home brewing and moving to the packaging line at Gage Roads, which saw him move into brewing. Enjoy the conversations. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. Lastly we thank Unleashed Software for

Matt and Pete are running Craft Beer Ally at the Brisbane Ekka this week and stopped to chat about the news of the week.  Boston Beer Launches Truly Hard Seltzer Ads Featuring Comedian Keegan-Michael Key Government set to audit venues over glass measures Why Craft Beer Is Dying A brewery called ‘Manhattan Project’ decides to release a beer called ‘Bikini Atoll’. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. Lastly we thank Unleashed Software for supporting the show. Unleashed is more than inventory management software. It’s a system that runs your whole business operations and gives you an unfair brewing advantage. Learn how Unleashed can help you

This week, we meet Richard Jeffares from Two Bays Brewing in Victoria. Imagine being a beer lover - and the brother of the owner of one of the best beer pubs in the country - and then finding out that you can’t drink beer. That was the predicament that Richard found himself in, but as they say - when life gives you lemons you make lemonade...or in his case he went and found some ancient grains and made beer that he could drink...and others would want to even if they had the choice of drinking beer with gluten or not. It’s a great chat about how a life circumstance can create new challenges and interesting opportunities. Enjoy the conversation. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get you

Pete joins Matt up in Brissie ahead of the EKKA and to discuss the news of the week. This episode also features bonus chats with Stephen Beaumont on why we should stop following trends from the USA and Paul Holgate on equity crowd funding. Investigation reveals alcohol content of fermented ‘soft drinks’ Venues face fines for selling growlers without manufacturer licence Brewers Association Reports Continued Growth for Small and Independent Brewers A taxing double standard Illawarra Brewing Co apologise for offensive meme Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring

The month of July, traditionally a quieter time for brewers as sales slow and the opportunity arises for brewers to update equipment, prepare brew schedules for summer stocks and to take some well-earned R & R. for veteran (but still young and sprightly) brewer Jayne Lewis, July was a time to take a step back, to take stock and to reflect. Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. Lastly we thank Unleashed Software for supporting the show. Unleashed is more than inventory management software. It’s a system that runs your whole business operations and gives you an unfair brewing advantage. Learn how Unleashed can help you run and grow your brewery.  If

Could VB join the list of worst beer trends with their new tea? And why government red tape is hindering smaller brewers. Matt and Pete discuss Brews News Week.  The Worst Trends in Beer Right Now, According to Brewers Qld Craft Brewing Strategy fails first test. Brewers face impact of Sydney lockout laws Victoria Bitter launches VB Tea Brewbound Editor Leaves Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. Lastly we thank Unleashed Software for supporting the show. Unleashed is more than inventory management software. It’s a system that runs your whole business operations and gives you an unfair brewing advantage. Learn how Unleashed can help yo

This week we catch up with Jaz and Grant Wearin from Modus Operandi. We caught up with Grant around 12 months ago after Modus was named Champion Large Brewery at the Indies and we had a wide ranging chat about that award, beer quality and date coding. This conversation was recorded last week as the pair were gearing up for their fifth birthday celebrations and I was interested in hearing from the couple about the realities of running a family brewery. When I last spoke with Grant, the pair were expecting their first child and I was interested to hear how, with baby Arch about to celebrate his first birthday, they are managing the demands of an expanding brewery and finding balance in an industry - often with unsocial hours - with their expanding family. As happens in a dynamic business, the interview was cut short and when we reconvened a few days later Jaz had been struck down with the flu, but the second half of the conversation features Grant discussing the special celebration beers the brewery is releas

Matt and Pete take a dive into the biggest beer news story for quite some time - the sale of CUB, as well as some breaking local stories.  QLD fire levy “case-by-case” says government Is Coopers the Dunlop Volleys of beer? Launches XPA. Or does it need some star power? CUB snapped up by Asahi in $16bn deal ACCC takes note and craft brands remain in wake of CUB sale Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt has been bringing you the world’s best local and imported malts. Your premium brewing partner and proud supporters of Brews News. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Call Rallings on 1300 852 235 to discover a more efficient way to get your small batch canning labels done. And we welcome Unleashed Software as a supporter of the show. Unleashed is more than inventory management software. It’s a system that runs your whole business operations and gives you an unfair brewing advantage. Learn how Unleashed can he