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Australia‘s craft beer system at brink of collapse - as breweries lose battle to multimillion dollar overseas giants by Jack Evans, News.com, 21 Jan 2024 Australia’s once thriving independent brewery scene is at risk of collapse - and there’s a $29 billion reason for it. The start of 2024...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/meth-beer-victims-family-recall-nightmare-death-of-aiden-sagala/6SC22LROD5HOBFXJLUSOQ4PPQE/

Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame brought out his own beer a little while ago - Hawkstone Lager, made from barley grown on his own Diddly Squat farm. Seems to have taken the UK market by storm. Anybody tried it? Is it a ‘proper pint’? Is it really any better that other offerings at the price? Or...

I found the recipe analysis and historical content in this quite interesting. A lighthearted, even chintzy, presentation of a complex subject - funny too in parts. And very informative (despite the embedded ad).

Fifty-three years ago this month the Victorian Government was debating whether the law should be changed to require pubs to sell beer (and other drinks) to customers in clean glasses. A novel idea at the time. Evidently the law was subsequently changed to enforce the clean glass regime that...

A couple of craft brewery-related stories in the Melbourne press over the last few days. A reminder that running a brew-pub is not all froth and bubbles - if it’s not the bloody council, it’s the bloody residents! Regarding the Moon Dog story, anyone who grew up in Melbourne in the ‘70s and 80s...

A couple who are restoring an old chateau in Normandy, France, explore one of its old out buildings - a brewery/distillery left untouched for decades. Magnificent old wooden barrels that once held cider and calvados are discovered. As well as a few old bottles of calvados that are opened and...

Media release put out today by Coopers in Adelaide. COOPERS BREWERY TO CREATE WORLD-CLASS VISITOR EXPERIENCE 21 Apr 2022 Coopers Brewery will invest $50 million in the construction of a new world-class visitor centre, microbrewery and whisky distillery at its Regency Park site. In its 160th...

There's a stack of beer review channels on Youtube. Heaps. But I stumbled across this one. I like his style, a lot of his beer reviews, and his travel stories.

The end is nigh! The Canberra Times is talking up its local alcohol-free (0.5%) Heaps Normal as potential Best Beer at GABS this year. The alcohol-free Canberra beer tipped to be voted Australia's best craft beer Funny ad for Heaps Normal taking the piss out of Aussie rangas :

Here’s a yarn for anyone who has thought of opening a bar. Yeah, I know, there are lots of sound business issues to consider such as location, theme, booze, regulations, leases, staff, partners, 5-year planning, etc. But you can also just dive in on the cheap and open a beer bar, ‘a local...

FYI - here’s a cautionary tale for the home brewer with dreams of going commercial and building a beer empire. Thirty-eight years ago yesterday the heir to the Heineken beer fortune, Freddy Heineken, was snatched from the streets of Amsterdam and held for the largest ransom ever paid. A movie...

Australia's smallest brewery gears up for big trade by Richard Cornish, 5 Nov 2021, The Age In a tiny former bank in the village of Dean, north of Ballarat, Damien Norman has opened Australia's smallest commercial brewery. With travel between Melbourne and regional Victoria permitted again...

Long weekend here and little more than climate change, Covid and the Melbourne Cup on free-to-air TV. So I’m browsing some familiar YouTube channels. ‘Bald and Bankrupt’ is one. Funny bloke, and brave (or foolish?) too. A week or so ago he went looking for a beer in Siberia and meets some...

Craft brewer Stone and Wood sells out to Lion Stone and Wood’s Pacific Ale has been one of the biggest selling craft beers in Australia for more than a decade and claimed the No.1 spot in the GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers in 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2019. The company, led by Brad Rogers...

A short doco, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, involving shit beer in plastic cups, disagreeable politics (IMO) and bad teeth - but its a great yarn well told of friendship overcoming tough times. Goes to show that beer is the glue that holds the world together. So make beer, not war.

The London Independent newspaper put out this list of the best 12 'traditional' beers 'from London to Orkney' in the UK last October. For those interested in UK style beers, its a good read about what's spinning wheels in UK bottle shops these days. Also good to read how the writer uses...

Standing rib roast (with Yorkshire pud) by the best TV chef in the business (IMO). Makes it seem easy too (except for the juggling of imperial and metric measurements).

New 'research' says its unhealthy to have more than four standard drinks a day, and no more than 10 per week. Geez, in footy season I would be maxing out the daily limit by half time and the weekly limit by tea time on Sunday. Anyway, listen to the rebuttal by the bloke representing the...

James May has bought a half share in an old pub in Wiltshire and gives a five minute video tour during its refit. Quite funny in parts. He talks about the long term decline of pubs in the UK, the unfair excise on pub beer vs supermarket beer, and the effects of COVID on pubs. I know its UK and...