Brews Views

There is a vast difference between ‘beer’ and the ‘business of beer’. Almost all mainstream media coverage of beer actually relates to the business or marketing of it rather than what’s in the bottle. That’s because mainstream beer is a multi-billion dollar industry and the craft industry – the part of the industry that actually has something...
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Aaron Caruana asks whether, in our quest to push the beer envelope, are we at risk of becoming beer wankers...
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Pete 'Prof Pilsner' Mitcham weighs in on the 'what to call craft beer' debate...and wonders whether it really matters if we just follow flavour...
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Watching football while having a beer is one of life’s great pleasures and close to a national institution in Australia but when sport sponsorships deny beer drinkers the right to choose their beer it is bad for fans and it is bad for brewing.
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Food producers love a good study, particularly one that finds that some ingredient or trace element in their product has some miraculous property found to cure cancer in rats. Beer has been found to contain all sorts of health-giving nutrients but is it a cure-all superfood or just a very tasty drink?
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Beer lovers, excited by the increased attention given to their favourite drink these days, often get excited by the suggestion that beer is the “new wine”. The raised profile of beer is a great thing but there is at least one major barrier to beer being afforded the same regard as wine: snobbery.
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As we watch the growing hysteria around alcohol these days, it would be easy to think that we are in a unique point in history. That we aren’t was graphically illustrated when this picture (right) lobbed in my inbox recently. I was fascinated and started digging to find out a little more. It turns...
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Update 9÷3÷12 …and it finally happened. There has been interesting speculation in The Age that Fosters could lose the Corona and Stella licences. One of the the most incisive ideas in this article is tucked away right at the very end: “When Foster’s releases its interim results next month it will show that the margins and...
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Wine drinkers get handed a leather-bound volume outlining their choices. Beer lovers get the drinks equivalent of the kiddies menu, containing the usual bunch of suspects and non-imported "imports". Matt Kirkegaard says enough is enough...
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