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When news broke that CUB has been purchased by Asahi for $16 Billion the comments and questions came thick and fast. Some things were clear, if the sale went ahead Asahi would become the worlds third largest brewing company. What was not so clear was the fate of the various company layers within the CUB network. Questions and opinions soon began circulating as to the future of CUB's craft brands like 4 Pines and Pirate Life as well as online services such as Booze Bud and Rate Beer. We turn to Mazen Hajjar, co founder of Hawkers Beer, who is very forthright in his opinions on all things business. He shares what the sale might mean for the Australian beer landscape as well as his views on tap contracts, anti competitive behaviour and the role of the IBA and ACCC. 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 Lab

Radical changes to ice cold beers and second hand drinking catch the boys attention this week as Matt and Pete discuss Brews News Week. Radical change to the iconic VB can Pilsners Are an Elegant Outlier to the Craft Beer Hype Machine 'Second-hand drinking' damage is more common than you may think Better margins see publicans invest in craft beer despite lure of pokies Rules tightened on alcohol home delivery ABAC rules against Star Wars-themed beer 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

This week we have a very timely conversation with Harry Jenkins, independent chair of the Alcoholic Beverages Advertising Code scheme (ABAC). This conversation had been booked for some weeks but happened to be recorded the day before the news come out about ABAC’s Jedi Juice ruling so we weren't able to canvas that specifically. We did discuss the ABAC code generally, its aims and objectives, and also the criticism it has faced from both sides of the industry. It’s an interesting conversation about an important topic that is very timely for the whole industry, but especially for smaller and independent brewers. 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.

Thanks to Bintani this is a special edition of Radio Brews News, live from the West Australian Brewers Association Craft Brewers Conference. Two Birds co-founder, Jayne Lewis, opened the conference with her keynote. Jayne eschewed the usual keynote update and platitudes by addressing some of the important issues the industry has been tackling and she address them head on, but in a very supportive way. We didn’t initially plan to podcast the keynote, but it was a message that we think everyone should hear. Matt followed up with Jayne after for a bit more of a chat about what she said and why it was important right now. We thank Bintani for working with us to provide you with the best industry event coverage – let them work for you by providing the best ingredient for your beer. 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

This week Matt and Pete discuss the big ideas. Have we reached peak beer here in Australia and why is ABAC copping so much hate? Have We Reached Peak Beer? Happy 21st birthday ABAC: Here’s twenty-one times you’ve been labelled a failure Growth plans in the works as FogHorn invests in wholesale Stomping Ground to open airport brewery Beer is a Conversation: Shawn Sherlock Beer is a Conversation: Mark Haysman 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

A Baltimore-born, Brooklyn raised, Israeli soldier/homebrewer marries and settles in Melbourne and finds himself the Head Brewer in his friend’s business venture – a revamped Docklands pub tucked quite literally beneath the Melbourne Star Ferris wheel. Whilst it sounds like the opening to a convoluted Hollywood movie plot, it is, in fact, the story of Shaya Rubenstein from Urban Alley Brewing. The business itself began life as Collins St Brewing when Shaya’s friend Ze’ev Meltzer conceived a plan to open an inner city brewhouse. The difficulties that presented led to a Plan B where the business contract brewed core beers to enter the market and establish the brand while a suitable site could be sourced close to the city. The Harbour Town Hotel became that site, a large scale pub on the outer reaches of the Docklands precinct to the north west of the city. A chunk of the existing restaurant area was given over to the brewhouse and Pete says that a better example of ‘Brewhouse Tetris’ would be hard to find as

Which brewer is taking part in Dry July? Find out as Matt and Pete discuss Brews News Week. Bintani launches 2019 vintage Signature Malt NE-IPA’s Quest for “Juicy” Has Led Us Toward Increasingly Undrinkable Beer, and “Hop Burn” is the Culprit AB InBev launches RateBeer marketplace Woolies set to offload Endeavour Drinks Brewers give their verdict on excise changes Dry July Australian Craft Beer Survey 2019 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

This week on Beer is a Conversation we visit Gage Roads Brewing and meet co-founder John Hoedemaker and Chief Strategy Officer Aaron Heary. As a publicly listed brewery, we probably know more about Gage’s business than almost any other brewery but at the same time John and Aaron keep a low profile personally and we have long wanted to talk to them to hear the Gage story of its evolution. Gage Roads has been brewing for 15 years and it is a unique brewery in the Australia landscape. Its journey has been unlike any other and has included launching, publicly listing, struggling, partnering with Woolworths, buying back from Woolworths, and relaunching seemingly stronger than ever. 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 o

Bintani has launched the 2019 vintage of its premium Signature Malt produced with Joe White Maltings.   We wanted to dig a little bit deeper into all things malt and learn the reasons behind the creation of Signature malt and why this year was such a good year for Tasmanian malting barley. A product such as Signature Malt has implications right along the supply chain from the farmer, to the maltster, the brewer and also to the communities that support these businesses and we wanted to find out more about all of these elements. Joining us was barley grower Dave Skipper, maltster Dave Bauld, brewer Dave Magill, Brand Tasmania’s Pip Dawson and Bintani's Justin Fox talk about Signature Malt. This is sponsored content produced in partnership with Bintani but, as with anything that we produce under our name, we think its good content and were pleased to help tell the story.

Today we learn that listening to Brews News Week is great for your fitness. So jog along as Matt and Pete discuss the news of the week. Board changes at the IBA Beer excise changes set to come into effect Is market concentration actually good for craft brewers? North of Nowhere Pale Ale 'Completely wrong': alcohol retailer BWS partners with Dry July Bintani launches hops selection trial Real Men of Genius commercial Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists Pre-hop harvest planning at Bushy Park 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

This is a special edition of Brews News, live from GABS in Melbourne. Thanks to Bintani, Brews News was able to take our mobile studio to GABS and capture some great discussions with a wide range of people in the beer industry. Today we have a couple of shorter interviews with some of the unsung members of the brewing industry. People who generally let their beers do the talking and are quite reluctant in front of a microphone. First we have Grum from Exit Brewing. We weren’t able to tease Grum’s real name out of him but we were able to learn the background to Exit Brewing, his approach to brewing and his reaction to picking up a couple of gold medals at the Australian International Beer Awards the night before. We also get his thoughts on why brewing is so attractive to refugees from the IT industry. We also then got to chat with Pia Poynton and Eddie Still from Nowhereman Brewing Co. Pia talks us through the story of Nowhereman while Eddie very reluctantly takes the mic and takes us through the process

This is a special edition of Brews News, live from GABS in Melbourne. Thanks to Bintani, Brews News was able to take our mobile studio to GABS and capture some great discussions with a wide range of people in the beer industry. GABS offered a great opportunity to be more candid with our guests and discuss a wide range of issues affecting the brewing industry. Today we have a series of shorter interviews, firstly Sam Fuss from Philter Brewing, who talks about her career, making the AIBA trophy winning beer for the awards night this year, what it meant to win the gypsy brewer trophy last year and also her possibly disappointing results this year on the back of that. We discuss the name gypsy brewer and its appropriateness as a label in this day and age and Sam also announces that she’s just put a deposit on her very own stainless steel so she won’t be fitting that description much longer. We also manage to catch up with Justin Fox and Ash Hazel, the former and current head brewers at Colonial Brewing. We he

Matt finally backs BrewDog! And some sage words of warning for those wanting to rip off Belgium Monks. Plus all the big Aussie beer stories of the week. Coopers Brews XPA Belgium monks forced to sell prized beer online to beat resellers Share sale at non alcoholic Sobah boosts expansion plans Hop-on, hop-off brewery tour service launches in Sydney WA bus route revives ailing beer tourism Hear marketing expert Zoe Ottaway's tips for Coopers  More of the discussion on trademark and copyright. Listen from 1hr 30 mins.  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

This is a special edition of Brews News, live from GABS in Melbourne. Thanks to Bintani, Brews News was able to take our mobile studio to GABS and capture some great discussions with a wide range of people in the beer industry. GABS offered a great opportunity to be more candid with our guests and discuss a wide range of issues affecting the brewing industry. Today’s guests are very senior members of the craft brewing industry, and very forthright. Feral Brewing Founder Brendan Varis and Richard Watkins Co-Founder of BentSpoke Brewing. Enjoy the conversation. 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

This is a special edition of Brews News, live from GABS in Melbourne. Thanks to Bintani, Brews News was able to take our mobile studio to GABS and capture some great discussions with a wide range of people in the beer industry. In just a few weeks changes will come into force that will see brewers able to use much smaller keg sizes without an excise penalty. There has been much discussion about what that means for brewers and how many will be taking up the opportunity. I sat down with two people who I thought would have a handle on all things kegs, Andrew Higginbotham, General Manager Australia New Zealand for Kegstar Kegs and Lincoln Kelly, General Manager Keg Services. We look at the changes that will take place and what brewers have been asking them, what they predict will change and how they are gearing up to cater to their projections. If you think what goes in a keg is interesting, this will show you that the business of stainless is worth some attention too. Enjoy the chat with Andrew Higginbotha

A fun chat this week as Pete and Matt debate whether a stamp collection counts if it has not been "licked and sticked" as well as the big news stories of the week: Australia’s Glen Fox new Charlie Bamforth ABAC finds against another craft brewery Craft contributes ‘disproportionate’ number of jobs to Aussie brewing industry FARE takes aim at "Ethical Vodka" 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

This is a special edition of Brews News, live from GABS in Melbourne. Thanks to Bintani, Brews News was able to take our mobile studio to GABS and capture some great discussions with a wide range of people in the beer industry. We do a lot of conversations, but there’s something about having a live studio at GABS that just saw the guests relax and talk in a way that they don’t always do when a microphone is in front of them. As a result we will be serving you up some terrific bonus content over the next few weeks that will offer some interesting and forthright observations. In this episode we kick off with a conversation with Phil and Dale Meddings from Bintani. A lot has happened with Bintani over the last twelve months, from the partial sale of their business to their US counterpart Rahr Corporation. This led to the end of their agreement with Yakima Chief Hops that in turn led to a lawsuit in the US relating to the termination of that contract. We discuss the events of the last year, what it means for

This week we meet Dr Glen Fox, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at the University of Queensland. We often overlook what we have in our own backyard and Dr Fox is a great example. While we have regularly had international experts on the podcast, I was unaware of the research that was going on here in Australia until I met Glen at a function recently. Dr Fox has just been named Charlie Bamforth’s successor as Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences at University of California, Davis. Today we meet Glen and learn about his research in the ingredients side of the industry and what his role will be at UC Davis. Along the way we also get a little tease into some research being done into Australian plants that may be able to assume the role of hops in brewing, learn that Toowoomba once had a hop industry of sorts, the concern about the effect climate change will have on barley and brewing and also that

During the recent Good Beer Week in Melbourne, the Cryer Malt trade hub at BeerDeluxe was once again a focus for the brewing industry with a number of important trade discussions taking place. Thanks to Kegstar, Brews News was able to be there to record some of these panels and we are proud to present these discussions. This panel hosted by co-founder of Totem Marketing Zoe Ottaway, was an informative discussion on product labelling, the legal requirements, the importance of adhering to these standards and the way in which ABAC treats product labelling complaints. We look at the issues from a retail perspective with Endeavour Drinks Diarmaid O’Mordha. You also hear Steve 'Hendo' Henderson formerly of Brew Cult who gives first hand experience of potentially falling foul of labelling standards and how an ABAC investigation works. And also from Jamie Cook, the Chair of the Independent Brewers Association who goes into detail about just how the the IBA can assist existing and potential brewing companies to com

Will Pete be convinced of shower beers? Which brewery needs to delete their social media feed? And who has been described as "as punk as the GoGos"? These stories and more as Pete and Matt discuss Brews News Week. Southern Bay backtracks over ‘tone deaf’ social media blunder Lion, Carlton United Breweries and Diageo donate State of Origin ad time to Drinkwise ABAC dismisses Carlton Zero ad complaint More than half of the top 50 Brewers Association-defined craft brewing companies didn’t grow in 2018 Stomping Ground is building a second brewery The Shower Beer Is the Best Beer for You, According to Science The rise and risks of equity crowdfunding 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