The Crafty Pint Podcast is back for 2025 after a most enjoyable break; we hope all our listeners and viewers had a great festive period too.

Our first show of the year is a little different to most. We still reflect on the stories we’ve covered since the start of 2025, including the news that KAIJU! have become the latest brewing company to enter voluntary administration almost a year to the day after Wayward Brewing did the same, heralding Aussie craft beer’s toughest 12 months.

However, there’s no main guest this time around. Instead, we look ahead to some of the notable upcoming events we’re involved in, as well as announcing a new campaign through which we hope to shine a light on the good deeds taking place throughout the beer and hospo industries.

In terms of events, The Catfish’s QI: Beer Edition on January 18 features both podcast producer Matt Hofmann as MC and Crafty founder James Smith as a panelist. Then, a week later, we’re hosting the live countdown of the GABS Hottest 100 via YouTube, while we also look ahead to the 2025 IBD Asia Pacific Convention in Hobart in conversation with convention chair Brendan Flanagan.

The aforementioned new campaign has been created in partnership with the team at Rallings. You can find out what it means to have “done a Rallings” from the person who came up with the concept in the second half of the show. Or you can get straight on with nominating anyone you know who’s done a good deed – big or small – in the wider beer world via the link below.

We’ll feature the best stories from those nominations in future shows – and there’s prizes up for grabs for both the nominee and the person or business that nominates them.

Start of segments:

• 7:46 – Discussion of recent news
• 19:01 – Brendan Flanagan – IBD
• 23:44 – Preview of GABS Hottest 100 Live Countdown & "Have you done a Rallings?"

Relevant links:

• KAIJU! Enter VA
• Dash & Smash – Inside The World Of The Aussie Beer Milers
• Ten Lessons From Ten Years – Cupitt's Estate
• Catfish QI: Beer Edition (Jan 18)
• GABS H100 Live Countdown
• Nominate A Good Beer Citizen
• IBD Asia Pacific Convention 2025
• Sign Up For The Next Brewing Course At Bendigo TAFE 

To find out more about supporting the show or otherwise partnering with The Crafty Pint, contact [email protected].