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Alan Bond and Bernie Power: Beer in the ’80s

June 5, 2015 by Matt Kirkegaard

With the news of Alan Bond’s death, recollections of his days at Bond Brewing in the 1980s and his ongoing influence on the brewing industry is explored.

Category: Featured, Features Tagged: 80s, Alan Bond, Bernie Power, Bill Taylor, Bond Brewing, Castlemaine Perkins, history, Lion Nathan, Powers, Swan Brewing, XXXX

James Squire returns the favour

October 3, 2011 by Pete Mitcham

Pete Mitcham has another lash at the new brew from Lion Brewing’s Malt Shovel Brewery, 150 Lashes.

Category: News Tagged: 150 Lashes, Chuck Hahn, Lion Brewing, Lion Nathan, Malt Shovel, Tony Jones

A new name for Lion Nathan National Foods

May 16, 2011 by Media Release

Lion Nathan National Foods today announced its intention to change its company name, and those of its wholly-owned business units, to Lion. While no formal business names will be used other than Lion, category and geography will be employed informally to distinguish between business units as required: Beer, Spirits and Wines, Australia (formerly Lion Nathan… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: Kirin, Lion, Lion Nathan, Lion Nathan National Foods

Malt Shovel up in smoke

January 6, 2011 by Editor

The Malt Shovel Brewery has released the first details of their pending summer limited edition beer. The Lion-Nathan owned brewery has announced they have brewed “a unique version of an Australian lager”. “Not the pale golden easy quaffing standard fare, but a beer that captured the essence of an Australian summer,” Head brewer Tony Jones… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: James Squire, Lion Nathan, Lion Nathan National Foods, Mad Brewers, Malt Shovel, Scribbly Gum, Tony Jones

Hey, true New

September 29, 2010 by Editor

Lion Nathan has recently successfully defended its trademarking of the word ‘NEW’ against a company seeking to trademark the logo for New South Brewing Company. Following a hearing Trade Mark Office hearings officer, Bianca Irgang, determined that a “significant number of consumers would at the very least experience a reasonable doubtas to the existence of… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: intellectual property, Lion Nathan, NEW, Tooheys, Trade Mark

Exclusive sponsorship deals are bad for beer

March 1, 2010 by Editor

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.

Category: News Tagged: competition, Coopers, Lion Nathan, sponsorships

Top four brewers make half world’s beer

February 9, 2010 by Editor

With news that the four biggest international brewers make more than half the world’s beer, Australian Brews News takes a closer look at who owns what and how that translates to the Australian marketplace.

Category: Features Tagged: AB Inbev, Anheuser Busch, Bluetongue, brewed under licence, Carlsberg, Fosters, Grupo Modelo, Heineken, InBev, Kirin, Lion Nathan, Pacific Beverages, SABMiller

Fosters to lose Corona licence?

January 10, 2010 by Editor

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… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: BeerMatt's Corollary, BeerMatt's Paradox, commodity paradox, Corona, Fosters, James Squire, Lion Nathan, Matilda Bay, Summer Bright Lager, XXXX

XXXX-Summer-Bright-Lager

XXXX Summer Bright Lager

January 8, 2010 by Matt Kirkegaard

With Summer Bright Lager, Lion Nathan hasn’t set out to challenge anyone’s perceptions of beer – just go head-to-head with Corona in the light and summery beer market. Have they succeeded?

Category: News Tagged: Corona, Lion Nathan, low carb, Natural Beer Promise, pale lager, Summer Bright Lager, XXXX

James Boag’s Pure vs Steinlager Pure

January 5, 2010 by Taste Panel

James Boag’s (Lion Nathan) Pure Pale lager 330ml 4.5% abv Steinlager (Lion Nathan) Pure Pale Lager 3330ml 5% abv This review wasn’t meant to be a Brews News smackdown tasting, it had started  as a James Boag’s Pure review. However, when I went to purchase the review bottle I did not look closely enough at… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: James Boags, Lion Nathan, Pure, review, smackdown, Steinlager

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