This week we meet Chris Swersey, who - following a 30-year career in the brewing industry in the US - recently moved to Australia and has started a role with Tribe Breweries as a new product development brewer.

During the chat, we discuss Swersey’s extensive career in the US, including his time with the Brewers Association as competition manager, where he ran the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup competitions.

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Lark Event: Boilermaker Lunch at The Still

Join LARK Head Distiller, Chris Thomson and some of the team from Wolf of the Willows for a lunchtime event filled with beer, chicken, and of course whisky. Learn the history of Boilermakers, and why they are continuing to grow in popularity. What brought LARK and Wolf together, the process behind our Wolf of the Willows releases and what makes them special.

WOTW Events: The team at WOTW are having events across Melbourne to celebrate the 5th release of the collaboration, head to their website to find out more.

This week the team discuss Lion's sustainability report, Royal Adelaide results and how much space is there for craft beer going forward?

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This week, we meet Stef Constantoulas and Max Hämmerle, co-founder and head brewer of Philter Brewing.

During the chat, we discuss branding, the difference in drinking cultures of Germans and Australians, and what’s happening at Philter as Sydney’s inner west develops as a craft brewing hot spot.

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This week the team discuss growth in the NoLo category and a decline in ABAC complaints.

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This week we are joined by Rocky Ridge Brewing co-founder and managing director Hamish Coates and head brewer Ross Terlick.

We spoke with Hamish and his co-founder and brand director Ricky Watt back in April after the brewery won a major sustainability award. The chat this week focuses on the recent Perth Royal Beer Show Awards.

Rocky Ridge was named Champion Large Brewery, which is a significant achievement, but the brewery also took home the Champion Beer Trophy for a Grodziskie. During this discussion, we speak to Terlick to find out more about this beer and what drove the brewery to use this style.

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This week the team discuss David Cryer's retirement, the 2022 craft beer survey and the best options for automating your venue.

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In this very special episode of Beer is a Conversation, we speak with David Cryer who has announced he is retiring from the business he started almost 30 years ago.

There wouldn’t be too many people in the brewing industry whose lives have not been touched and affected by David’s involvement in the industry. And that very much goes for Brews News.

During this chat, we reminisce and hear about David’s extensive career as well as his thoughts on the industry.

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This week, we meet with Harry Sexton, head brewer of Matilda Bay Brewery in Victoria.

Son of industry veteran and Matilda Bay founder, Phil Sexton, we speak to Harry about the resurgence of the brand in 2019, the challenges of running a brewery with a deep heritage and what his plans are for the business.

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This week the team discuss the Little Bang sale, Broo Liquidations and "non alcoholic seltzer".

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This week, we meet Simone Clements, head brewer at Gage Roads Brew Co. large new waterfront brewpub in Fremantle.

During the chat, we discuss Clements' start in the brewing industry after starting out as an environmental scientist.

Clements describes how she came to brewing, starting in the laboratory at Gage Roads working as a quality officer, to being encouraged to step into a brewing role and her progression to head brewer at Freo.

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