In October Bad Shepherd joined the growing number of small breweries that has sought to restructure through the mechanism of Voluntary Administration. Last Friday they proposed a Deed of Company Arrangement to creditors, which was successful, seeing the business able to restructure its debts and continue to trade In this very open conversation Dereck and Diti discuss the circumstances that led to their decision, the business during and post-COVID and what the VA process has meant for them. We...

This week the team discuss Coles sponsorships, acquisition of Southern Highlands and sad news for New Zealand's Deep Creek. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Sponsorship deals sees Coles' Tinnies poured at cricket Southern Highlands Brewing acquired by UK group NZ's Deep Creek enters...

This week I speak with Ben Twomey, founder of Southern Highlands Brewing. Now, this is an interesting one. It’s no secret that in the current market, many small breweries are looking to evolve and find a business model that opens up a way forward in a very crowded market. Consolidation is the word on everyone’s lips so it was no surprise to receive a media release about two breweries coming together. However, I would definitely had long odds on that being a merger between a small regional New...

This week the team discuss comments from US Brewers Association and craft is down at Coles Liquor. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Reinvent and diversify says US Brewers Association Chair Revenue growth for Coles Liquor but craft down Konvoy completes capital raise and signs first...

This week we meet Oli and Louis Leimbach, founders of the band Lime Cordiale. The brothers have recently partnered with Endeavour Group’s Pinnacle Drinks to release two beers under the Largo brand and I speak to them about the origins of the partnership and the development of the beer, as well as a surprising amount about band riders. Theirs doesn’t prohibit brown M&Ms, but is explicit about the beers they want. We are also joined by Hayley Martin, Lead Quality Specialist with Pinnacle...

This week the team discuss Sydney Beer Week and the alcohol consumption rates in Australia. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Sydney Beer Week to Return Apparent Consumption of alcohol in Australia Cancer Warnings Check out the Brewery Pro Podcast. Our partners Cryer Malt -...

This week I speak with Mark Hubbard, Campaign Manager with equity crowd funding firm OnMarket. Long time listeners may recall I spoke with Mark way back in 2016, not long after he founded Blizzard Brewery in Victoria’s High Country. Blizzard has since closed but Mark is still of the industry, now working with OnMarket as a brewery crowdfunding specialist. Mark is also a podcast listener and has heard my thoughts about equity crowdfunding, and has reached out a number of times to discuss them,...

This week the team discuss the idea of dynamic surging and is alcohol the new tobacco? Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Melbourne's Bad Shepherd enters Voluntary Administration Ozempic seems to curb cravings for alcohol. Here's what scientists think is going on Shouting killed by...

This week Matt is back in Sydney’s inner west to chat again with Wayward Brewing’s Peter Philip.  The last few weeks have almost been a Where Are they Now series, as we go back and find how the last few years have treated guests that we spoke to during the COVID days to see what’s changed and how they are dealing with what, I think we can accept, are challenging times. If you have time on your hands, it’s again worth going back and having a listen to my 2021 chat with Peter.  This week...

This week the team discuss WSET new beer courses and declaring added sugars in beer. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Clayton Hops launches advanced hop product range WSET Introduces new beer courses Defining added sugars for claims Check out the Brewery Pro Podcast. Our...

This week we speak to Dave Padden from Akasha Brewing. Over the last decade or more that this podcast has been running Dave has been a frequent guest and that’s because he’s always thoughtful, and importantly always willing to engage in discussions about important topics. He is someone I always enjoy speaking with on or off the microphone. And this conversation is no exception. The brewing industry is vastly different from where it was at 8 years ago when Dave founded Akasha and I wanted to...

Content warning: this episode contains explicit language. This week the team discuss Philter's crowd fund, juvenile marketing, and the problem with pay in the beer industry. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Philter to launch crowdfund "to stay Aussie owned" Next boom category...

This week we return to Brisbane’s Felons Brewery after a four year break and meet Brand Director Dean Romeo and Tom Champion its Brewery Director. We last spoke to Felon's Brewing before covid just months after the Howard Smith's Wharves on Brisbane's Riverside opened. The huge development has dramatically changed the hospitality face of Brisbane and Felons is central to the development.  I wanted to check in and find out how the hospitality heavy business was going, what they've learned...

This week the team discuss the BrewDog and the ways in which breweries can help each other out. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! BrewDog Results Brewery Radar  What is beer bringing to the table? Dynamic surging - Idea to increase beer prices at popular times Beer is a conversation...

This week we return to Sydney's Inner West and again catch up with Willie the Boatman’s Pat McInerney. We last spoke to Pat back in May 2020 just as the impacts of the Covid epidemic were starting to make themselves felt across the economy. You may wish to go back and listen to that episode before embarking on this one, because it's a very different Pat that we meet this week.  We have been hearing a lot about the changes that have taken place in the industry since COVID and the increased...

This week the team discuss the bitterness of beer and the problem with yeast sediment. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Batch Brewing & Willie the Boatman’s rebrands Bitterness versus Flavour Ready To Drink Alcoholic Beverages: How Breweries Can Adapt Check out the Brewery Pro...

This week we meet Marie Claire Jarratt, brewing shift lead at Brick Lane Brewing Company.  Marie Claire, better known as MC, has had a very interesting pathway into the brewing industry. With a background in physics and mathematics, MC was working towards a PhD in experimental quantum physics when she discovered the craft brewing industry in Sydney’s inner West. Her passion fired, MC wrote as a blogger on her own blog and beer writer and was awarded the beer Media Award at the Australian...

This week the team discuss the challenges of the current beer market. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Good Drinks results highlight tough market DrinkWise research advises mums-to-be to abstain from alcohol Check out the Brewery Pro Podcast. Our partners Rallings Labels and...

This week we meet Sherri Dill, Lead Production Brewer at Capital Brewing Company and ACT State Coordinator of The Pink Boots Society. Sherri has just appeared the face of the first episode of a new beer education series created by Capital Brewing, which you can see on Instagram or download. I was interested in finding out a little bit more about her background and career progress that has seen her recently appointmented as Capital’s lead production brewer. As you’ll hear it’s what could be...

This week the team discuss the competitiveness of the brewing industry and the latest changes at Mighty Craft in a huge week for news. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Australian beer market competitive: CUB We don’t get in the way of independents Mighty Craft Chair slams previous...

This week the team discuss all the happenings from the BrewCon, The EKKA and the news of the week. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! Dollar Bill repeats AIBA Success BrewCon Industry Partnerships Cryer Malt & Voyager Cryer Malt & Froth Technologies Local Taphouse Check out...

And this week as we prepare for BrewCon we have a special bonus episode of Beer is a Conversation as we meet Ed Jamison, Head of Marketing, for Fermentum Craft Beer Company and Richard Crowe, Head of Supply Chain, also for Fermentum. Regular readers of our news service will have been following the gradual restructure and rationalisation of Lion’s craft business that has seen breweries such as Tiny Mountain in Townsville and, more recently, Two Birds in Melbourne close and Bevy Brewing in...

This week we're speaking with James Phillips, Client Solutions Director, Australia New Zealand, for CGA by NielsenIQ.  We spoke to James last October for the first time to hear his company’s insights as Australia came out of the pandemic economy.  Brews News has recently had a lot of focus on data, and particularly squishy data, so we thought it might be a good idea to go back and speak to James and see what CGA by NielsenIQ is seeing now and how that applies to craft breweries. I also push...

This week the team discuss Southern Bay, trademarks and, of course, Hard Solo. Leave us a voicemail that we can share on the podcast brewsnews.com.au/get-involved Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! No Dividend to Southern Bay Creditors Sydney Royal Beer Awards announced Trademarks July 2023 People Moves  Beer is a Conversation Justin Kendall and Zoe Licata -...

Today were speaking with Justin Kendall and Zoe Licata from US brewing industry news site, Brewbound. Brewbound is the leading industry trade publication providing comprehensive information about the United States beer industry, analysis of industry trends and in-depth interviews with industry leaders.  Justin is the site's editor and Zoe a reporter and both are extremely plugged into what's going on in the US and two people whose coverage I always look to when news breaks in that...