The Podcast

Episode 019: Fighting For Indie Beer

As an immensely challenging year for indie brewers draws to a close, we invited key figures from the Independent Brewers Association to look back at the highs and lows of the past 12 months and ahead at their plans for 2025.

Episode 018: Life's A Beach: Building A Brewery In Bali

We set sail for Bali in this episode to catch up with Sam Füss, one of the beer world's true characters, who moved there from Sydney to help launch Beaches Brewing Co after more than two decades in brewing and hospo in Australia.

Episode 017: 25 Years Of Holgate

Few small businesses make it to a quarter-century, let alone in the world of brewing, yet that's the milestone marked by Paul and Tash Holgate in 2024. We joined them at their Woodend pub to hear their remarkable story.

Episode 016: Making A Positive Impact With Beer

What does it mean to be a sustainable business or to brew in a sustainable manner? How can beer businesses have a positive impact on the world around them? We sat down with sustainability expert James Perrin.

Episode 015: From Beer Writing To The Brewhouse – Building A Local Brewpub In NZ

In Episode 015 we head overseas for the first time to join a man who swapped a career writing and commentating on beer in Australia for rebuilding a twice-liquidated brewery in his hometown on the South Island of New Zealand.

Episode 014: Moon Dog's Marvellous Medicine

This week saw Moon Dog open their third megavenue, Doglands, on the Marvel Stadium concourse. We joined founders Karl van Buuren and Josh Uljans there to trace the evolution of their unique story.

Episode 013: From Teaching History To Brewing It

If you were to draw up a list of Australian brewing greats of the past 20 years, Shawn Sherlock would be in the very upper echelons. The former Murray's brewer now in full control of FogHorn Brewery joined us on the podcast.

Episode 012: Social Media, Branding, Diversity & Non Beer

Episode 012 of our podcast covers so many topics in the company of Amanda "Bakes" Baker, part of the team at Lost Palms on the Gold Coast, it could have been a mini-series. Enjoy!

Episode 011: Brewing Traditional Beers In The High Country

Traditional beer styles have been enjoying a revival so, in the midst of the busiest Oktoberfest season we can recall, we invited a man who's been brewing them since launching his brewery in 2016 onto the podcast for a chat.

Episode 010: Gillian Letham, Brisbane's Queen of the Suburbs

Gillian Letham never meant to build an empire of suburban bars. But in 11 years, she's gone from not drinking beer to owning three and become a pillar of Brisbane’s beer community. She tells us how it happened on The Crafty Pint Podcast.