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Radio Brews News

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Radio Brews News focuses on the issues facing the Australian brewing business and discusses them with the people shaping the industry. Every Tuesday, hear an interview with a leader in the brewing industry and every Thursday, hear the Brews News team discuss the news of the week.

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  1. Brews News Week #451 Brews News News

    This week the team have an update on Brews News to share. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved 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…

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  2. H100 Shorts - Stirling Howland / Balter

    The Hottest 100 is the biggest celebration of craft beer nationally each year, but last year's "We Love Good Beer" campaign from Balter was another huge celebration of beer. While an ad for Balter, it was also one of the best category celebrations as well. We wanted to hear from Stirling about…

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  3. H100 Shorts - Steve Jeffares / The Local Taphouse

    With the size and importance that the GABS Hottest 100 occupies in the craft beer scene, we caught of with one of the poll's founders, Steve Jeffares, to hear where it all came and how it got started. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please...

  4. H100 Shorts - Nick Murphy & Katie Greenleaf / First Choice Liquor Market

    With competition for a place in the H100 fiercer than ever, we speak with two of the most influential beer in craft beer, Nick Murphy & Katie Greenleaf the Category and Assistant Buying Managers, Craft Beer at First Choice Liquor Market. We talk current beer trends and the impact that they see…

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  5. H100 Shorts - Lars Brandle / Music Journalist

    We speak with Billboard Magazine's correspondent for Australia about the JJJ Hottest 100, the countdown that spawned the GABS equivalent. The parallels between two two are striking, from the controversies and debates to the effect they both have on their respective industries. Leave us a…

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  6. H100 Shorts - Ed Jamieson / Head of Marketing - Craft / Fermentum

    Ed Jamieson, who joined us last year to talk about Stone & Wood post-sale, joined us to talk about the beer that topped the very first Hottest 100 poll, Little Creatures Pale Ale. At nearly 25, we were keen to hear what the business' plans are for the venerable craft beer. Leave us a voicemail…

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  7. H100 Shorts - Jess Nugent / TheBoozyMama

    Beer instagrammer Jess Nugent aka TheBoozyMama joined us to look at why people share their love of craft beer to socials, what makes a great instagram post and how she voted... Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a…

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  8. H100 Shorts - Ben Krause / Bridge Road Brewers

    Ben shared his thoughts about being the most successful indie brewer over the 16 GABS Hottest 100s, the value of the poll and also the challenges of staying 'hot' in the annual popularity contest. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe...

  9. H100 - Live Broadcast replay (Part 2)

    Strap in for a long listen. Here's Part 2 of the five hour Hottest 100 Countdown live stream, presented by First Choice Liquor Market. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite...

  10. H100 - Live Broadcast replay (Part 1)

    Strap in for a long listen. Here's Part 1 of the five hour Hottest 100 Countdown live stream, presented by First Choice Liquor Market. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite...

  11. Brews News Week #450 Digging Wells

    This week the team discuss how Wayward and LDC emerge from VA and excitement ahead of the hottest 100 countdown. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs...

  12. Tim Burkardt - Consultant Brewer

    This week we have a very interesting chat with a young brewer by the name of Tim Burkardt. Tim reached out to me to tell me about the brewing apprenticeship that he undertook in Germany and the things that he observed about the differences between learning brewing in Germany and in Australia, as...

  13. Brews News Week #449 Back For More

    The team are back for another year, this week discussing the latest news and regulations. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other...

  14. Matt Hepburn and Christen McGarry - Your Mates Brewing

    This week we catch up with Matt Hepburn and Christen McGarry from Your Mates Brewing. Late last year - 2023 that is, given this is the first episode of 2024 - Your Mates celebrated its 10th anniversary, and it’s been quite a ride for the business. Both Christen and Matt are pretty open about the...

  15. Brews News Week #448 Season's Greetings

    This week the team discuss a break for Good Beer Week and their predictions for 2024. Happy Holidays from the whole Brews News team! Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite...

  16. Craig and Lance Masterton - Heads of Noosa Brewing

    This week we meet Craig and Lance Masterton from Heads of Noosa Brewing. We first met the brothers almost five years ago when the brewery opened. For a start-up, it was an impressive setup, especially when the business was running very counter to what were then the predominant craft trends. While...

  17. Brews News Week #447 Junk Mail

    This week the team discuss Cheeky Monkey, GABS, and the Aldi-BrewDog collaboration. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer...

  18. Brendan Day - Cheeky Monkey Brewery

    This week I speak with Brendan day from WA’s Cheeky Monkey Brewery. With the entire industry looking at ways forward and industry consolidation a very hot talking point this week Cheeky Monkey and announced that it was acquiring Sound Brewing Company which is currently in administration. Brendan...

  19. Brews News Week #446 The Enemy Is Out There

    This week the team discuss the impact of voluntary administrations and new brewing apprenticeships. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and...

  20. Paul Bowker - Brick Lane Brewing Company

    This week I speak with Paul Bowker, Managing Director of Brick Lane Brewing company. The small brewing movement was built on a lot of romantic ideas about brewing that were born from a reaction to a brewing duopoly that didn’t offer consumers a lot of choice. The craft narrative was small,...

  21. Brews News Week #445 Collegiality

    This week the team discuss Dainton Beer going into administration and Hard Solo use at schoolies. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and…

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  22. Chris Pisney and Jen Blair - Cicerone Certification Program

    This week I speak with Chris Pisney and Jen Blair from the Cicerone Certification Program. Chris is Program Director for the program, and Jen is the Exam Manager…and Jen has just attained the highest accolade for Cicerones, becoming a Master Cicerone, joining a group of only 22 other individuals...

  23. Brews News Week #444 Not Suitable For Children

    This week the team discuss the outcome for Hard Solo and Sierra Nevada reduce availability in Australia. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing...

  24. Peter 'Flip' Filipovic - Jetty Road

    This week I speak with Peter Filipovic, who is part of a consortium that has purchased Jetty Road from Might Craft. Peter, or Flip as he’s better known, is something of a white whale for me. He spent 25 years with CUB, finishing as CEO and - in that position - was high on my list of people I very...

  25. Brews News Week #443 Doing It Twice

    This week the team discuss updates with Bad Shepherd and White Bay as well as proposed rules on alcohol advertising and labelling. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite...

  26. Dereck and Diti Hales - Bad Shepherd

    In October Bad Shepherd joined the growing number of small breweries that has sought to restructure through the mechanism of Voluntary Administration. Last Friday they proposed a Deed of Company Arrangement to creditors, which was successful, seeing the business able to restructure its debts and...

  27. Brews News Week #442 We Don't Have To Grow

    This week the team discuss Coles sponsorships, acquisition of Southern Highlands and sad news for New Zealand's Deep Creek. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting…

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  28. Ben Twomey - Southern Highlands Brewing

    This week I speak with Ben Twomey, founder of Southern Highlands Brewing. Now, this is an interesting one. It’s no secret that in the current market, many small breweries are looking to evolve and find a business model that opens up a way forward in a very crowded market. Consolidation is the…

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  29. Brews News Week #441 Like My Innovative Shoes?

    This week the team discuss comments from US Brewers Association and craft is down at Coles Liquor. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and...

  30. Oli and Louis Leimbach - Lime Cordiale

    This week we meet Oli and Louis Leimbach, founders of the band Lime Cordiale. The brothers have recently partnered with Endeavour Group’s Pinnacle Drinks to release two beers under the Largo brand and I speak to them about the origins of the partnership and the development of the beer, as well as…

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  31. Brews News Week #440 Between A Warning And A Rose

    This week the team discuss Sydney Beer Week and the alcohol consumption rates in Australia. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps…

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  32. Mark Hubbard - OnMarket

    This week I speak with Mark Hubbard, Campaign Manager with equity crowd funding firm OnMarket. Long time listeners may recall I spoke with Mark way back in 2016, not long after he founded Blizzard Brewery in Victoria’s High Country. Blizzard has since closed but Mark is still of the industry, now...

  33. Brews News Week #439 Live Long And Prosper

    This week the team discuss the idea of dynamic surging and is alcohol the new tobacco? Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other…

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  34. Peter Philip - Wayward Brewing

    This week Matt is back in Sydney’s inner west to chat again with Wayward Brewing’s Peter Philip. The last few weeks have almost been a Where Are they Now series, as we go back and find how the last few years have treated guests that we spoke to during the COVID days to see what’s changed and how...

  35. Brews News Week #438 No Added Sugar

    This week the team discuss WSET new beer courses and declaring added sugars in beer. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer...

  36. Dave Padden - Akasha Brewing

    This week we speak to Dave Padden from Akasha Brewing. Over the last decade or more that this podcast has been running Dave has been a frequent guest and that’s because he’s always thoughtful, and importantly always willing to engage in discussions about important topics. He is someone I always...

  37. Brews News Week #437 For When You Grow Up

    Content warning: this episode contains explicit language. This week the team discuss Philter's crowd fund, juvenile marketing, and the problem with pay in the beer industry. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review…

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  38. Dean Romeo and Tom Champion - Felons Brewing Co

    This week we return to Brisbane’s Felons Brewery after a four year break and meet Brand Director Dean Romeo and Tom Champion its Brewery Director. We last spoke to Felon's Brewing before covid just months after the Howard Smith's Wharves on Brisbane's Riverside opened. The huge development has...

  39. Brews News Week #436 You Are Not Alone

    This week the team discuss the BrewDog and the ways in which breweries can help each other out. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps...

  40. Pat McInerney - Willie the Boatman

    This week we return to Sydney's Inner West and again catch up with Willie the Boatman’s Pat McInerney. We last spoke to Pat back in May 2020 just as the impacts of the Covid epidemic were starting to make themselves felt across the economy. You may wish to go back and listen to that episode…

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  41. Brews News Week #435 Cicerowned

    This week the team discuss the bitterness of beer and the problem with yeast sediment. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other…

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  42. Marie Claire Jarratt - Brick Lane Brewing Company

    This week we meet Marie Claire Jarratt, brewing shift lead at Brick Lane Brewing Company. Marie Claire, better known as MC, has had a very interesting pathway into the brewing industry. With a background in physics and mathematics, MC was working towards a PhD in experimental quantum physics when...

  43. Brews News Week #434 Internal Tension

    This week the team discuss the challenges of the current beer market. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers…

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  44. Sherri Dill - Capital Brewing Company

    This week we meet Sherri Dill, Lead Production Brewer at Capital Brewing Company and ACT State Coordinator of The Pink Boots Society. Sherri has just appeared the face of the first episode of a new beer education series created by Capital Brewing, which you can see on Instagram or download. I was...

  45. Brews News Week #433 On Script

    This week the team discuss the competitiveness of the brewing industry and the latest changes at Mighty Craft in a huge week for news. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite...

  46. Brews News Week #432 Positive Vibes

    This week the team discuss all the happenings from the BrewCon, The EKKA and the news of the week. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and...

  47. Ed Jamison & Rich Crowe - Fermentum Craft Beer Co

    And this week as we prepare for BrewCon we have a special bonus episode of Beer is a Conversation as we meet Ed Jamison, Head of Marketing, for Fermentum Craft Beer Company and Richard Crowe, Head of Supply Chain, also for Fermentum. Regular readers of our news service will have been following…

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  48. James Phillips - CGA by NielsenIQ

    This week we're speaking with James Phillips, Client Solutions Director, Australia New Zealand, for CGA by NielsenIQ. We spoke to James last October for the first time to hear his company’s insights as Australia came out of the pandemic economy. Brews News has recently had a lot of focus on data,...

  49. Brews News Week #431 Believe In Good Beer

    This week the team discuss Southern Bay, trademarks and, of course, Hard Solo. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer…

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  50. Justin Kendall and Zoe Licata - Brewbound

    Today were speaking with Justin Kendall and Zoe Licata from US brewing industry news site, Brewbound. Brewbound is the leading industry trade publication providing comprehensive information about the United States beer industry, analysis of industry trends and in-depth interviews with industry...

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Radio Brews News focuses on the issues facing the Australian brewing business and discusses them with the people shaping the industry. Every Tuesday, hear an interview with a leader in the brewing industry and every Thursday, hear the Brews News team discuss the news of the week.

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