Radio Brews News

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