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In a special edition of Radio Brews News, we catch up quickly with Guy Greenstone live at the Great Australian Beer Spectapular....

This week we catch up with Mr Crafty Pint, James Smith, and his Good Beer Week colleague Miro Bellini. Planning for Good Beer Week 2013 is well underway and it for venues and breweries wanting to get involved, now is the time to get your nominations in. James and Miro talk about the back ground to Good Beer Week and look ahead to next years event. more information and details: www.goodbeerweek.com In our continuing series of sound issues, James and Miro were indeed sitting in the midst of a flock of Rosella's lending either a Tippi Hedren or outdoorsy feel to this episode, depending on your point of view. VB #1 Brand by value article in Drinks Weekly. Details and bookings for Prof's Barley's Angels BBQ event: Local Taphouse Blog This episode is brought to you by Monday2Sunday Brewhaus. Contact them at info@monday2sunday.com.au. Advertisement This episode is brought to you by Monday2Sunday Brewhaus. Contact them at info@monday2sunday.com.au. Next class: Basic All Grain Mash Class Cost - $565.00 exc

This week we catch up with Steve Brockman, co-head brewer at The Monk in Fremantle, and Education and Events Officer at the Western Australian Brewers Association. We talk about all things Western Australian Beer including Western Australia Craft Beer Week. This week's episode is brought to you by Monday2Sunday Brewhaus.

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 business model, we put some reader question to Brad and also ask what the Lion takeover of Little World Beverages means for Stone & Wood. In addition to being co-owner and head brewer at Stone & Wood, Brad is also Chair of the recently formed Craft Beer Industry Association, as well as just being named as Chief Judge at the Australian International Beer Awards. Brad updates us on both of those, and outlines how beer enthusiasts can join the CBIA.

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 that they are becoming more common. You can now hear Radio Brews News on Stitcher Smart Radio which lets you hear us directly on your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and plenty of others. Download it free today at any app store. You can still get us on iTunes or listen to us right here.

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 up and posted in time for Jade's mention of the Wheatsheaf's Fountain of Hoppiness Festival. Sorry. Today's Pacific rendition of the Beer Barrel Polka is presented in honour of Oktoberfest and is played by The Official Oktoberfest Band from their album Oktoberfest: A Beer Drinking Tradition. Buy it here, thank us later. You can now hear Radio Brews News on Stitcher Smart Radio which lets you hear us directly on your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and plenty of others. Download it free today at any app store. You can still get us on iTunes or listen to us right here.

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 Wheatsheaf in Adelaide. Today's Pacific rendition of the Beer Barrel Polka comes to us performed by that legendary crooner, Knuckles O'Toole, from his magnum opus, Sing Along With Knuckles O'Toole. Buy it here, thank us later. There's also a special appearance by Gemini Five. You can now hear Radio Brews News on Stitcher Smart Radio which lets you hear us directly on your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and plenty of others. Download it free today at any app store. You can still get us on iTunes or listen to us right here. Show notes: Original media release announcing the change, 1 July 2009. Media Release VB REMAINS

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 festival theme we hear from Corey Crooks all about this year's Newcastle Craft Beer Week, as well as the Albion Hotel's progress at kicking mainstream beers out of the hotel. Date claimers: Sydney Craft Beer Week - October 20 - 28 Newcastle Craft Beer Week - November 18 - 25 Matt and Pete also talk about the new Carlton Draught campaign and discuss all things beer in general. Today's Pacific rendition of the Beer Barrel Polka comes to us performed by French heart throb, Jo Steve, from his immortal album Farandole : Danse du tapis, danse du balai. Buy it here, thank us later. You can now hear Radio Brews News

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 a little insight into the future of CUB's Matilda Bay and Cascade brands... Today's Pacific rendition of the Beer Barrel Polka comes to us performed by Kaina Boys from the well known album Kaina Boys No Moorea Tahiti Kaina Music. Buy it here, thank us later. You can now hear Radio Brews News on Stitcher Smart Radio which lets you hear us directly on your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and plenty of others. Download it free today at any app store. You can still get us on iTunes or listen to us right here.

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. We also mention the New Zealand Brewers Guild beer writer of the year award...since this was recorded Phil Cook has been announced NZ Beer Writer of the Year, a fantastic result for both Phil and for interesting and thoughtful beer writing. You can read Phil's blog here. Today's upbeat Oompah Polka comes to us performed by Alex Pulaski and The Polka Dots from the well known album Zicke Zacke Zicke Zacke Oi Oi Oi! Oktoberfest. Buy it here, thank us later. You can now hear Radio Brews News on Stitcher Smart Radio which lets you hear us directly on your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and plenty of others. Downl

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 brewers and tap contracts. We also enjoy a cameo from Two Bird's Jayne Lewis who joins us via a squeaky lab door. For those who listen to the end, you might even get the chance to win some brewery schwag... Our upbeat end tune is Bobby Vinton's rendition of Beer Barrel Polka from his album Greatest Polka Hits of All Time. You can buy it here, if by any chance it's not already in your collection.

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 up, Crown Saga, Little Creatures and plenty more. We'll get back into the swing with some guests now that we've blown the cobwebs away. Thanks to everyone who missed up. We don't get it ourselves, but you asked for it.

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 regular soapbox rant.  Chris from Melbourne University suggested a segment called What The Froth - WTF? - and Matt takes off on a rant about XXXX Gold Island reinforcing the damaged brand for the beer category just to gain a bump of a few points in market share. Tim Cooper Then we get serious and talk with Tim Cooper who gives us over an hour of his time to talk about all things Coopers, including: Coopers Clear and whether Coopers is still 'craft' When is 'traditional' not the best way to do it? Why the brewery replaced the old puncheon system (photos right) The plans for a commemorative brew for their annivers

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, including the challenges of scaling up production from the Matilda Bay Garage brewery to have them brewed at Cascade whether that impacts the 'craftiness' of the beers. We also discuss the techniques of brewing, the move to the new site and also challenges of being a small part of a big brewing company in which one import can sell more than the entire craft segment...interesting in light of last week's announcement from Corona. Will they increase their focus on Matilda Bay now? We put some questions to Scoot from listeners Frozen Summers, Paul Pacey and Radical Brewer, who asked for the recipe for Alpha and Scott

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 Corey about how he had effected this transformation and some of the things he has learned during the process. Among the things Corey tells us is: Serving craft beer has made the working lives of staff much easier because of the changed deomgraphics in the hotel that has been attracted by craft beer. By attracting customers drawn to beer for flavour and not effect, beer has changed the ambience of the hotel. In changing the beer offerings at a hotel, staff are critical. If you put craft beer on, your staff must be engaged in the process and know about what they are selling...or it just wont sell. It's a great loo

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 it in November 2010 and many of our readers may not have heard it before. The story is relevant this week because of a story by Sam Fletcher that takes a look at Platinum Liquor, a favourite craft beer store in the tough Sydney market, but one that also proudly boasts of selling grey import beers, including Stone. Anyway, listen to Greg Koch and make up your own mind about the practice. Next week we will be back with our regular show. As always, for show notes and links head on over to Australian Brews News.

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 thought provoking and informative discussion. In this episode we get slightly technical, but Charlie keeps it easy to follow as we talk about about: malt yeast origins of lager getting rid of VDKs in fermentation (you'll need to listen to understand this one, but it's very clear when you do) how long before time becomes the fifth ingredient Whether using enzymes and other brewing aids is wrong and whether not using them makes better beer Beer in cans And other things, too many to mention. Don’t forget, Charlie has two excellent books that are highly recommended additions to any good beer library. Finally, stak

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 on XXXX Summer Cloudy Ginger Beer but, in addition to being a conversation, beer is a broad church. The discussion looks at the new beer, how it’s made and some of the techniques brewers use to make beers targeted at the largest part of the beer market. Finally, we catch up with Andrew ‘AG’ Gow, brewer at Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula Brewery. We have a wide ranging discussion about his career, his experiences at a variety of craft breweries and his current role at the recently established Mornington Peninsula Brewery. We finish the show with what must surely be one of the greatest renditions of Beer Barrrel Polk

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 News through iTunes, just note that we have changed our host and you may need to update your feed. Don't forget to leave a review on iTunes, as well as sending through your feedback and suggestions. For more show notes and links, head on over to Australian Brews News.

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 wanting to get into craft beer as well as touches on the thorny issue of craft beer quality…which he thinks may be the biggest issue facing craft beer at the moment. We talk tap contracts and Al's plans for a WA craft beer takeover for Good Beer Week 2012. Then we chat with Sam and Stu from New Zealand's Yeastie Boys and discuss all things Yeastie, as well as contract brewing, Stu's pays and, of course, Rex Attitude. For additional show notes and links, head on over to Australian Brews News.