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This is the full podcast version of this week's Crafting a Seltzer seminar presented by Bintani and Fermentis.

Topics covered include:

What is a seltzer

Key attributes for the category

Ingredients and techniques

Marketing and positioning

Legalities and ATO implications

much more.

You can find show notes, a full transcript and contact details for our presenters on the site.

Welcome to a BreweryPro conversation with Hop Products Australia’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Owen Johnston. 

The 2020 hop harvest report has been released and it was a mixed year for HPA, with some varieties, including Galaxy up significantly, and others such as Vic Secret down. 

We talk a lot in the brewing industry about beer being an agricultural product, and this hop harvest demonstrates that. So I wanted to discuss with Owen the 2020 harvest, what led to the result, but also the development and evolution of the Australian hop industry since we first spoke with HPA on our podcasts almost 10 years ago.

It’s an interesting deep dive into hop growing and the vagaries of a growing season, what the results  mean for brewers in terms of availability and a look back over ten years of growing hops.

You can download the full report here.

For this BreweryPro podcast we step into the way back machine and run an extract from a 2011 Radio Brews News podcast that featured an interview with HPA General Manager Tim Lord.

The conversation we did then provides an interesting look back on the the development of the Australian Hop industry as we speak with HPA Marketing Manager, Owen Johnston, about the 2020 hop harvest.

Kevin Han from Nash Advisory, a Melbourne-based business support and corporate advisory firm told Brews News' The Antidote podcast that the has actively been advising privately owned companies including breweries and distilleries as they confront the current crisis.

“What we've found challenging over the last three weeks is that a lot of our clients are coming to us in a tough position because they've got to make some really challenging decisions around staffing, production, and what they need to do with their business,” he said.

Han said many directors, owners, managers and staff had invested time and money in their businesses and navigating the uncertainty caused by COVID-19 was an unprecedented challenge.

“What we're fielding in terms of calls from our clients is really about business fundamentals.

"Cash is king at this point, how do we manage to pay our staff? How do we manage to pay our rent? What are the best levers that we can pull to get us through what could be a couple weeks, a couple months, or potentially longer?” Han said.

You can read the full transcript of the advice here.

Welcome to this Radio Brews News special Brewery Pro edition.

The Independent Brewers Association is increasing its focus on professional development within the Australian brewing indusrty and has been steering the creation of certificate level courses, including brewery traineeships. It will soon have a guide to training out for members.

In this conversation we catch up with IBA Director Richard Adamason. Richard leads the association's People project group and is developing a training plan for the industry in addition to focusing on education, WH&S and wellbeing.

Richard outlines what is being done in the training space and outlines the current options for vocational training.

You can read more about the conversation here.