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The Crafty Pint Podcast

The Crafty Pint

The Crafty Pint is the home of craft beer in Australia.The online magazine and resource has been crafting beer"s best stories since 2010 and, in July 2024, launched The Crafty Pint Podcast.Hosted by the editorial team behind Australia"s leading craft beer media publication, the show features curated discussion of industry news, as well as an ever-changing lineup of guests sharing perspectives from all corners of the craft beer world.Subscribe now and delve into the fascinating stories shaping

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61:07

Finding Balance In The Beer World

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/10/29

Jayne Lewis needs little, if any, introduction to anyone that reads or listens to The Crafty Pint. Following stints at many of the country’s brewing trailblazers, she blazed a trail of her own, creating Two Birds Brewing with mate Dani Allen, together going on to conquer the country’s beer awards while inspiring many other women to follow in their footsteps. Two years on from leaving Two Birds, she’s been carving out a new path, one focused very much on the human side of the food and drinks

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66:15

Going With The Grain

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/10/22

“It's a big picture approach. I love it because our kids are going to have a future.”The phrase “more than the sum of its parts” shouldn’t really apply when the parts in question are as significant in their own manner as Wildflower Beer, Organically Greenwoodand Voyager Craft Malt. Yet there can be no denying that these pioneering operations are stronger together – their impact magnified by their ongoing collaboration.Since first discovering each other, the trio – respectively a brewer favouring

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56:47

Grainstock 2025

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2025/10/15

"We're all massive grain users – bakers, brewers, distillers – so it's so good to get to connect with them."Grainstock was a first-of-its-kind industry gathering and beer festival celebrating grain, agriculture, brewing, distilling and baking under the one banner.Held at Voyager Craft Malt’s home at the Whitton Malt House over three days, it brought diverse yet linked industries together for farm tours, networking, and a symposium exploring the opportunities, challenges and future for farmers and

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54:38

Brewing In Paradise

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2025/10/08

“The ethos was trying to provide that cultural shift and be a catalyst for that.”What’s it like brewing beer in paradise? Or, more precisely, in Exmouth: gateway to the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area that’s home to awe-inspiring, barely-populated beaches and an abundance of glorious wildlife that can make it feel like you’re living in a David Attenborough documentary.We sat down with Pete Firth and Justin Fuery, respectively co-founders of Froth Craft Brewery and Whalebone Brewing, to discover

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75:39

At Craft Beer's Coalface

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/10/01

"Our goal was always to showcase every beer at every brewery as if it was our own."Joslyn Erickson works in a unique but essential part of the beer industry. She runs Hop On Brewery Tours alongside partner Matt Farrelly, which the pair launched nearly a decade ago in Queensland. Back then, Brisbane had only six craft breweries and the Gold Coast was home to just a handful of breweries and venues where you could find anything other than mainstream beer.It means Joslyn has enjoyed a front row seat to

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54:21

Bold, Unapologetic, Wild & Weird

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2025/09/24

“A lot of my ethos about what I’d like brewing to be is that DIY punk vibe, which is really collaborative.”A year on from Feral’s return to independence, the brewery unveiled a new look, a tightened core range, and a new head brewer, with ex-Beavertown and Beerfarm brewer Charlotte Freeston entrusted with shaping the next chapter in the iconic brand’s story.Ahead of Froth Town 2025, we joined her at Feral’s brewery (with AIBA Best Media 2025 winner Guy Southern along as co-host) to find out more

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78:37

Farming With The Devil

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2025/09/17

"To see [our barley] from start to finish, and to also see the result in our beers, is something that's pretty beautiful."Michael Stanzel first came to the attention of Australian beer drinkers when he and wife, Chloe Hoiberg, joined Burnley Brewing upon their return to Australia from Germany. While in Europe, he’d trained as a brewer, with those influences shining through many of the releases from the now-closed Richmond brewery.Today, you’ll find him at Devilbend Farm Beer Co, on the Mornington

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74:08

The Art Of Being Evil

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2025/09/10

“I try to do as few things on purpose as possible.”More than a thousand brewing companies have launched in Australia since the turn of the millennium, but there’s been nothing quite like Evil Mega Corp.The one-man “worker’s-owned Utopia” is the brainchild of Rhys Lopez, formerly head brewer at Otherside Brewing, and it’s fair to say that in the world of Aussie brewers there’s nothing quite like Rhys either.It’s probably not worth trying to summarise the operation or the man behind it in these notes;

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77:30

Thirty Years Of Pioneering Beers

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2025/09/03

“We’re lucky to work in an industry that’s a lot about fun.”This week’s guests need little, if any, introduction. Not only is BentSpoke – the brewery launched in a Braddon brewpub in 2014 and now a national brand – one of the country’s best-loved operations, but its founders have connections with Canberra’s beer scene stretching back three decades.Richard Watkins and Tracy Margrain met while working in the kitchen at the Wig & Pen, a tiny Canberra brewpub that became a hotbed for experimentation

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59:02

Keeping The Beers Flowing At Tumut River

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2025/08/27

“Tumut is a bit of a hidden gem still and one of the things we're trying to do is help put it on the map via the brewery.”Late in 2024, two former employees took ownership of Tumut River Brewing Co, a brewpub-based operation at the gateway to the Snowy Mountains that had gone into liquidation.Michael Cichocki and Mary Richmond said their intention was to return the brewery to its community and tourism-focused roots – so we paid them a visit midway through 2025 to find out how their mission was

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76:28

Capital Gains

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2025/08/20

“You can be more sustainable and make more money at the same time.”Capital Brewing are well established alongside BentSpoke as part of the ACT beer scene’s big two. Despite retaining a tight sales focus on just the Canberra region and New South Wales, they’ve grown to a current capacity of two million litres per year while operating one of the largest hospitality venues – 1,000 people inside and out – of any brewery in Australia.They’ve gained public recognition by landing multiple beers in numerous

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86:50

How To Revive A Historic Country Hotel

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2025/08/13

“I like to say we’re the only pub in the world that’s a pub, police station and morgue in the same room.”One of the key figures in Sydney’s craft beer boom was Brad Flowers. He didn’t brew beer or run a venue, but through his distribution business he put beers from dozens of Australia’s indie brewers onto taps and into fridges, while also running some seriously ambitious events.Brad, it’s fair to say, also enjoyed the fruits of his labour as much as anyone in and around the industry, with tales of

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81:02

Voyager's Vision

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2025/08/06

“We don’t produce bulk commodity malt; we’re here to create malts that craft brewers and distillers can leverage off.”Here at The Crafty Pint we’ve made little secret of our admiration for the work of Stu Whytcross and Brad Woolner, the founders of Voyager Craft Malt. If we were betting sorts, we’d wager their impact – not just on beer and distilling, but farming and their home region in the Riverina – will be as great as any business to have operated within the wider beer world this century.Ahead

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63:28

Community, Culture, Creativity – Inside The Cypher World

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2025/07/30

"We've got big plans and big ideas, and want to have some fun with it along the way.”Canberra’s beer scene has been dominated – in a nice way – by two breweries for the best part of a decade now, but since Cypher Brewing released their first beers in April 2023 the Gungahlin crew have been angling to join BentSpoke and Capital and turn the Big Two into a Big Three.We joined co-owner Jeff Wilson-Shipley and head brewer Matt Thiele at their brewpub as part of our podcast road trip odyssey in June. The

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76:39

One Drop. A Million Ideas

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2025/07/23

“From very early on, we all agreed that we would play to our strengths.”More than a thousand brewing companies have come and, in many cases, gone since the craft beer era began in Australia, but there’s never been one quite like One Drop.The Botany-based operation make cracking “normal” beers yet have become a byword for the wild and WTF, the experimental and eccentric. They weren’t the first brewery to make smoothie sours, for example, but they’ve taken such beers – and myriad other styles – to new

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72:44

Barrels, Belgians & British Boozers

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2025/07/16

“At the heart of [the beer industry] is the beer drinker who just loves beer, appreciates quality, and wants to share that experience.”Ahead of their biggest event of the year, Ramjet Day, we joined Boatrocker founders Matt and Andrea Houghton at their Barrel Room in Braeside.Given Matt and his brewers have released more beers in different styles than pretty much anyone in Australia since 2009 – not to mention their move into spirits after they absorbed former Perth distillery Hippocampus – there’s

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69:25

Staying Independent, Innovative & Relevant For Two...

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2025/07/09

“These large multinationals aren’t really interested in a diverse portfolio of beer. They would love it to be only two products but their hand is forced by independents."Bridge Road Brewers’ story is one of the great stories of the craft beer era. It’s centred around a family-founded (and now partially employee-owned) business and features everything from a cross-hemisphere love story, global collaborations and inspired innovation to major events and even the creation of an independent

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67:06

A Family Affair: 30 Years Of Bintani

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2025/07/02

“People’s tastes won’t go back to where they were before. So, whatever shape it takes in the next few years, we’re still going to see better beer in Australia.”For 30 years and counting, Bintani have played a key role supplying the beer industry with essential ingredients. But more than that, they’ve also been a key pillar of support for brewers and industry events – and an important sounding board for ideas too.For this episode of The Crafty Pint Podcast, James and Will were fortunate enough to be

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47:28

Selling Beer & Indie Beer's Story

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2025/06/25

“If you don't hustle you haemorrhage."Will Ziebell visited Bright Brewery for their annual Darker Days festival and, while in the High Country town, sat down with their national business development and brand manager Evin Craney.Evin joined the brewery six years ago following a career in sales that saw him move from bottleshop retail to a repping for number of Victorian breweries, and has since become chair of the Independent Brewers Association (IBA).The first half of the episode focuses on the

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73:13

Seven Sheds & Countless Stories

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2025/06/18

“I think Seven Sheds was a bit like the Velvet Underground. It’s been said about the Velvet Underground that they didn’t sell many records, but every second person who bought a record went off and started their own band. And I think we were a bit influential… to our own detriment.”Less than a year on from the first episode of The Crafty Pint Podcast, we’ve reached our 50th show, and mark the occasion with suitably distinguished guests.While many who first discovered craft beer in recent years may

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