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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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77:30

Thirty Years Of Pioneering Beers

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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...

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

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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Aussie Hops Series: Vic Secret - Presented By HPA

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/06/17

"We've done some really hop-forward, Brettanomyces-fermented beers which have been really neat with Vic Secret too, just the way that the Brett biotransforms some of the compounds in Vic Secret is pretty cool."In partnership with HPA, Australia's leading hop grower, we've created a series of podcast episodes – an Aussie Hop Series – looking closely at some of the country's most recognised and impactful hop varieties.Over the course of the series, we've spoken to leading brewers from across Australia

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70:57

Reckless Race To Success

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/06/11

“I think we’re just as surprised as anyone, really. We’ve been blown away by the awards.”Since settling into their Bathurst brewpub in 2022, Reckless Brewing have been on quite the tear when it comes to beer awards. They’ve picked up three trophies for three different beers in three straight years at the Australian International Beer Awards while securing trophies at other beer competitions too.Two of the brewery’s founders – Grace Fowler and Jarrod Moore – joined Will and James from their brewery

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Aussie Hops Series: Eclipse - Presented By HPA

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/06/10

"I don't think you can really overpower it because it's just such a great hop and pairs really well with a lot of other tropical or fruity hops."In partnership with HPA, Australia's leading hop grower, we've created a series of podcast episodes – an Aussie Hop Series – looking closely at some of the country's most recognised and impactful hop varieties.Over the course of the series, we're speaking with leading brewers from across Australia and abroad, as well as experts from HPA, discussing their

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87:10

Philter's Award-Winning Potion

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/06/04

"In this game, you have to all believe in what you're trying to achieve.”While no strangers to awards success, it’s fair to say the team at Philter enjoyed a night to remember at the 2025 Australian International Beer Awards, taking home four major trophies.After a brief yet raucous chat with them on the night, we reconvened two weeks later for a more relaxed and wide-ranging catch-up with co-founders Mick Neil and Stef Constantoulas – mates who met when they moved in to the same Marrickville street

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Aussie Hops Series: Topaz - Presented By HPA

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/06/03

“The purpose of Topaz was really a bittering hop. And then as that craft flavour grew and hit mainstream, it really evolved from simply being a start-of-boil, hot-side hop to something that was used at end of boil to something that's now used in the dry hop as well.”In partnership with HPA, Australia's leading hop grower, we've created a series of podcast episodes – an Aussie Hop Series – looking closely at some of the country's most recognised and impactful hop varieties.Over the course of the

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70:07

Charlie Bamforth: A Life In Beer

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/05/28

"I’m the one who can have a beer and advertise my endowment. The Edward Teller professor of nuclear physics is not walking around with uranium. And you can join the pet food industry, but on a Friday night you can’t have a few cans of Chum."Charlie Bamforth is a name and voice familiar to many in the beer world. He’s one of beer’s great storytellers and has worked in the industry since 1978, the year he started at the Brewing Research Foundation before moving to Bass in the UK.He later spent decades

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Aussie Hops Series: Ella - Presented By HPA

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/05/27

“Incredible. Sticky, glistening, super-intense resin and fruit goodness…”In partnership with HPA, Australia's leading hop grower, we've created a series of podcast episodes – an Aussie Hop Series – looking closely at some of the country's most recognised and impactful hop varieties.Over the course of the series, we're speaking with leading brewers from across Australia and abroad, as well as experts from HPA, discussing their experience with these iconic hops, what they've learned along the way, as

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70:39

The Making Of A Serial Trophy Winner

The Crafty Pint Podcast ·

2025/05/21

"I got the feedback and it was brutal. But I didn’t get upset; I just took it on the chin."Who better to feature on the podcast the week after the country's biggest beer awards than the man whose beers have won more trophies in recent years than any other?Moffat Beach Brewing Co might have had to make do with a clutch of gold, silver and bronze medals at this year's Australian International Beer Awards but the small Sunshine Coast brewery's name has become as synonymous with trophy glory as any.To

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