In depth features about beer travel, beer and food, brewers, breweries, beer history, styles and just about everything you wanted to know about beer.
This week we head to Port Melbourne to speak with Matilda Bay's Scott Vincent. In a wide ranging discussion, we look at a wide range of issues facing CUB's craft brewing arm, including the challenges of scaling up production from the Matilda Bay Garage brewery to have them brewed at Cascade whether that impacts...
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James Davidson heads on over to Red Duck's new digs and finds out what curiosities and delights brewer Scott Wilson-Browne has planned...
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Join Matt & Pete for a beer at Carlton's Great Northern Hotel as we podcast from the pub with special guest Professor Charlie Bamforth.
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Western Sydney is at present not quite awash with quality beer. Craft offerings in the harbour city tend to be concentrated around the CBD, while the huge suburban sprawl out west is largely untouched. But after the Australian Brewery opened their doors in Rouse Hill in 2010, western Sydney got its first local taste...
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This week we head down to Newcastle and meet up with Corey Crooks, publican of The Albion Hotel and the driving force behind last year’s Newcastle Craft Beer Week. Newcastle isn’t the first city that springs to mind when beer lovers talk about hot beer destnations, but over the past three years Corey has...
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Jeremy Sambrooks hits WA's wine country and reports back on the inaugural South West Beer Festival that shows the Margaret River is staking a claim as a beer destination...
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The gremlins hit the recording this week and a great interview with Jade Flavell from the Wheatsheaf and Steve Jeffares from the Local Taphouse was ruined. Rather than go without a podcast, we have repackaged a 2010 interview with Greg Koch from Stone Brewing explaining why he is passionate in trying to stop the...
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From the outside, Platinum Liquor doesn’t look like much. Both of its outlets – in Bellevue Hill and North Strathfield – sit nestled in amongst a group of suburban shops and bear the legends Tooheys New and Heineken, with precious few signs to the treasure trove of craft beer beyond. For nearly seven years,...
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A beer writer is asked to sample plenty of different beers, often before they are released to the general public with the view to providing an opinion. With this privilege comes great responsibility. It is common for the little voice of your Mum in your head to remind you; “If you can’t say anything...
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PET beverage packaging is a familiar sight. Its lightweight and recyclable properties have made it a staple of the fast-moving consumer goods industry for more than twenty years. Beer, though, is a market that has never fully felt the PET influence, with most breweries clinging conservatively to the traditional glass packaging, with the occasional...
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