Last night’s Federal Budget delivered some surprise excise benefits for small brewers. The Australian Government announced it will extend the current microbreweries excise refund scheme by increasing the maximum refund amount from $10,000 to $30,000 and removing the current production eligibility threshold of 30,000 litres of beer, with effect from 1 July 2012. The...
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Sad news reached us today about the passing of brewer Geoff Scharer. Hyperbole often abounds in newspapers with the passing of significant people and the word “pioneering” is overused. However, I can’t think of a more fitting word to describe Geoff Scharer. Geoff was granted Australia’s first brewpub licence in 1981, a step taken...
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Brewing industry veteran John Harvey's weekly summary of all the beer industry news for the past seven days.
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