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Stephen Holden

Stephen S Holden Stephen Holden is a beer aficionado and philosopher disguised as an Associate Professor of marketing at Bond University. He worked as the first Marketing Manager of Brewtech / Matilda Bay Brewing Company in the 1980s. He went on to complete studies allowing him to become an academic which incredibly, has been even more fun than being a marketing manager of a brewery. Meanwhile, he has drunk beer in over 30 countries in the world – including twice with Michael Jackson (once in Toronto, and on another occasion in Ceske Budjovice), and once from a calabash open-fermenting in Mali near to Timbuktu.


Marketing insights from the birth of boutique brewing in Australia

October 5, 2012
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We round off our unplanned week of looking at the history of Matilda Bay by publishing an article that has everything a beer wonk could want: craft beer, history, marketing insights and a personal narrative...
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