This week the team share their disgust over Blackflags Barely Legal brew and share the other news of the week.

Content warning: This episode contains some swearing and some topics that might not be suitable for young ears.

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This week we have a special panel discussion recorded live at the recent Craft Brewer Conference in Nashville.

2023 has been a pivotal year for the brewing industry here, and the current state of the market was a significant topic of discussion at this year’s Craft Brewers Conference.

A strong Australian contingent was in Nashville attending the event and immediately after the conference closed, I was interested in hearing the immediate impressions from some of those that were in attendance. It was a very informal, spontaneous group that I chatted with, but it’s still a group of senior industry representatives.

The panel is:

I hope you enjoy hearing their first thoughts and takeaways from the Craft Brewers Conference.

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This week the team discuss the fact that no growth could be the new normal for craft and where new growth could come from.

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This week the team discuss Endeavours Q3 results, the toughest ever alcohol marketing code and whether AI is coming for the brewing industry.

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This week’s conversation is so wide ranging and interesting that we didn’t even end up touching on the topic that we planned to.

The guest today is Brand Manager of MoonDog, which I probably should note up front as in the hour long conversation, we don’t touch once on his current paid job or his employer. But my guest, Miro Bellini, is arguably Australia’s most passionate, thoughtful and pragmatic advocate for craft beer. This conversation ends up having no real topic…just beer, but with Miro that that topic is always engaging. 

Enjoy this conversation with Miro Bellini.

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This week the team discuss 14 day payment terms for small suppliers and how healthy is alcohol really?

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And this week we don’t just learn about beer, we learn about potato crisps as we meet brewing quality consultant Clare Clouting.

Until recently Clare was with Good Drinks Australia where she had worked as Quality Assurance Manager and Operations Systems Manager. Recently she founded Athena Business Solutions with the aim of assisting food and beverage businesses produce safe, high quality and compliant products through education and easy to use tools, food safety coaching and consulting.

We begin by learning a bit about Clare and had she came to work in quality, coming to beer via Frito Lay, which is where the potato crisps come in, including what is the lager of chips. 

We have had Clare on BreweryPro podcast a number of times and I highly recommend you go back and listen to them if you have an interest in quality, and seeing more of Clare expertise. 

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This week the team discuss ABACs quarterly report and VicReturn appointed as scheme co-ordinator for the Victorian CDS Scheme.

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This week we meet Dylan Firth, Executive Director of the Brewers Association of New Zealand.

There is always a lot of discussion amongst brewers at the smaller end of the market about things like independence and the market dominance of the large brewers, but at the same time, there are a great many issues that affect all brewers. As we have discussed on this podcast recently, policy development and industry advocacy are incredibly time-consuming for industry bodies and I was interested in speaking with Dylan about the role of the association that represents the interests of the largest brewers in New Zealand and where some of these overlaps are.

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This week the team discuss online liquor sales review and calls for real teeth in regulating large retailers.

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