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Drinks Adventures - Wine, beer, whisky, gin & more with James Atkinson

Wine, Beer & Whisky Network Australia

Wine lover? Craft beer fan? Drink whisky, bourbon, cognac or rum? Or maybe it"s gin or vodka or mezcal you"re into? Based in Australia, but globally minded, Drinks Adventures covers all these drinks and more: Japanese sake, cider, tequila, champagne, cocktails... we could go on! Listen in as award-winning drinks writer James Atkinson interviews the world"s biggest names in craft brewing, winemaking, distilling and mixology, along with sommeliers, mixologists, sake samurais, masters of wine and

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51:27

How the Romans inspired Merrick Watts' Posca Hydrate

Drinks Adventures - Wine, beer, whisky, gin & more... ·

2025/11/19

We’re joined this episode by Merrick Watts and Ed Stening, co-founders ofPosca Hydrate, a recent start-up that takes inspiration from one of the oldest drinks in recorded history. Posca shares its name with an ancient concoction of red wine vinegar, water, salt and flavourings that was consumed by the Roman army for its hydrating properties, at a time when clean water was often hard to come by. It was Merrick, the comedian, broadcaster and wine expert, who conceived the idea of resurrecting this

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30:12

Protecting Australian rum, with Matt Hobson of Nil...

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2025/10/23

In this episode, we welcome Matt Hobson of Nil Desperandum Rum back to the show.Matt was last with us on the eve of Queensland Rum Day 2024 to discuss the debut release of The Rum Consortium, a history-making blend of rums from four Queensland distilleries including icons Bundaberg and Beenleigh. Queensland Rum Day 2025 is coming up this Friday October 2025, so there’s events and another special Rum Consortium release for you to suss out after listening to this interview with Matt. This time,

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38:55

The trials and triumphs of mobile canning in Australia

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2025/10/08

In this episode we’re joined by Chris Kelly of Australia’s first mobile canning provider, East Coast Canning.Chris founded the business in 2016 to provide small breweries with access to professional-grade packaging without them needing to invest in expensive canning lines of their own. Nine years on, East Coast Canning has a fleet of four mobile canning trucks and a static packaging facility in Melbourne that together have filled more than 33 million cans for customers on Australia’s eastern

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34:49

Why Cincoro is more than "Michael Jordan's tequila"

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2025/09/24

We’re joined this episode by Emilia Fazzalari and Quentin Job of Cincoro Tequila.Cincoro is the ultra-premium tequila brand launched in 2019 by a group of NBA club owners including the legendary Michael Jordan, who it turns out is also a tequila aficionado. Also in the founding group are Emilia – the company’s executive chairperson who we’re speaking to today; her husband Wyc Grousbeck – owner of the Boston Celtics; and fellow basketball figures Jeanie Buss and Wes Edens. Our other guest today,

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19:33

The Guinness boom with global brand ambassador...

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2025/08/21

We're joined this episode by Guinness global brand ambassador Padraig Fox.Padraig was recently in Australia as part of Guinness’s sponsorship of the British and Irish Lions rugby tour, which coincides with a massive global resurgence for the brand. And, as you would have heard in my recent interview with Lion bosses James Brindley and Anubha Sahasrabuddhe, Australia has not been immune to the trend. In fact, Lion sold about 2 million litres of Guinness during the recent tour, when there were 2650

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29:21

Western Australia's brewing scene, with writer Guy...

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2025/07/23

We’re joined this episode by West Australian beer writer and retailer, Guy Southern, winner of the Beer Media prize at the Australian International Beer Awards 2025.Guy may be familiar to you from his regular reporting for The Crafty Pint, where he’s covered the West Australian beer scene for well over a decade. And he was also lead researcher and writer for a recent documentary detailing the history of beer in Western Australia, which was screened at the exhibition Liquid Gold: A Taste of WA

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26:38

Beer entrepreneur Steve Jeffares on his next chapter

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2025/07/02

We’re joined this episode by Steve Jeffares, co-founder of The LocalTaphouse and Stomping Ground Brewing Company in Melbourne, as well as GABS, the Great Australian Beer Spectapular festival. Steve’s new solo venture is Happy Camper, a community-focused venue in Glen Iris, Melbourne, in the site formerly occupied by Deeds Brewing, which ceased operations last year. As you’ll hear, it’s a deliberate step back from scale and spectacle — and a return to Steve’s roots in hospitality and curating

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40:53

Australia's forgotten spirits, with historian Luke...

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2025/06/19

In this episode, we welcome back Australian spirits writer and historian Luke McCarthy to discuss two new books he has published in 2025. The first is Forgotten Spirits: A History of the Distilling Industry in Victoria — a landmark publication commissioned by Spirits Victoria and supported by funding from the Victorian Government. This is the first time anyone has attempted a comprehensive historical account of distilling in Victoria. And what Luke uncovered is an industry far older and more

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32:47

Taking Tasmanian whisky global with Greenbanks

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2025/06/05

We’re joined this episode by John Slattery, co-founder of GreenbanksTasmanian Whisky Co. Greenbanks started production in late 2023 with Tasmania’s largest capacity still that is fully optimised for producing whisky of all styles. In fact, the capacity of the production still at Greenbanks exceeds the combined capacity of all other whisky distilleries on the island. This scale is designed to support Greenbanks’ goal of producing a Tasmanian whisky that can hit shelves at the globally

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41:27

How Fielden is championing English rye whisky

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2025/05/29

We’re joined this episode by Charlie Echlin and Chico Rosa from FieldenWhisky of England, which has recently launched its range in Australia. Fielden began life in 2017 as The Oxford Artisan Distillery, a company focused predominately on white spirits that it distilled from scratch using historic grain varieties. But it also laid down for maturation small quantities of grain spirit that underpinned its relaunch as Fielden Whisky and relocation to Yorkshire with the target of having 30,000 casks

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42:19

Lion co-leaders James Brindley and Anubha Sahasrabuddhe

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2025/05/08

We’re joined this episode by James Brindley and Anubha Sahasrabuddheof brewer Lion Australia. After his previous 28-year stint with Lion finished in 2021, James surprised the industry when he announced his return as managing director in May 2024, under a somewhat unorthodox arrangement where he would share the leadership with Anubha. With a background in CPG – consumer packaged goods – Anubha held senior leadership roles at The Coca-Cola Company and Mars Wrigley across Asia Pacific and North

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23:32

How Canefields Distillery is pioneering heirloom...

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2025/04/17

One of the standout sessions at the recent Australian Distillers Association conference was presented by Dr Marlize Becker of the University of Queensland and Luke Farrelly of Canefields Distillery on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.Luke is a fourth-generation cane farmer who wanted to carry on the family tradition and decided rum was the most logical vehicle for him to do so. But the discovery of ten different ‘heirloom’ sugarcane varieties growing on the family property led him down the path of

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23:16

Sydney Rum Distillery outlines global ambitions

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2025/03/27

We’re joined this episode by Steve Magarry and Jonny Croft of Sydney Rum Distillery, which has just unveiled its new home in the former Oak milk factory in Muswellbrook.Now, that is of course a few hours north of Sydney, in the Upper Hunter Valley to be precise. In fact, the historic Oak site was most recently utilised as a winery. But the selection of the Oak factory follows an exhaustive search across Sydney for a site that could accommodate the company’s ambitious plans to create a globally

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31:27

Fred Siggins' expert buying advice for Australian...

Drinks Adventures - Wine, beer, whisky, gin & more... ·

2025/03/21

Fred Siggins is a Melbourne-based spirits writer with more than 20 years of experience in the drinks and hospitality industries.He joins us to discuss what I think is a fairly momentous development. Halliday Wine Companion, the definitive guide to Australian wine for almost 40 years, is expanding its remit to include spirits. Launching in April 2025, Halliday Spirits offers comprehensive reviews and ratings of Australian-made and international spirits, aiming to elevate the industry with the same

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9:44

Lark Whisky unveils Kurio blend; signals major brand...

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2025/03/14

Welcome to a special news edition of Drinks Adventures as we unpack Lark Distilling’s half yearly results. This time last year, Lark Distilling CEO Satya Sharma joined us on the podcast for a full-length interview, which I strongly recommend you listen to if you haven’t already. Twelve months on and Lark appears to making strong progress against the priorities and objectives that Sash outlined in that episode. The ASX-listed company recently announced net sales of $7.2 million for the half year

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43:02

Craft beer's boom and bust, with veteran journalist...

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2025/03/07

In this episode, veteran beer journalist Matt Kirkegaard returns to the Drinks Adventures podcast.Early in 2024, Matt surprised many people in the brewing industry when he announced a career change, having spent more than two decades as a beer writer and educator. This also meant the closure of Brews News, the beer industry publication and podcast that I edited between 2015 and 2018, prior to starting Drinks Adventures. And not only that, but Matt made a somewhat unusual tree change, taking a job

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39:26

The Champagne Guide with Tyson Stelzer

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2025/02/27

Renowned wine writer and champagne specialist Tyson Stelzer joins us in this opening episode of Season 20.Late in 2024, Tyson released the seventh edition of The Champagne Guide, which is 50 per cent bigger than the previous edition, featuring a record 1260 reviews spread across 880 pages adorned with Tyson’s beautiful photographs. The guide features a Hall of Honour ranking the best producers and the best champagnes of the year in all price points, as well as the best blanc de blancs, blanc de

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28:10

Veteran winemaker Chris Hatcher on going solo

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2024/12/17

We last spoke with Chris Hatcher in May 2021, at which time he was still chief winemaker of the legendary Wolf Blass brand.Chris has since retired from Wolf Blass, but it’s not retirement as you or I would know it, because Chris has thrown himself into his own venture, Hatch Wines, which is what we’ll be discussing today. Chris has relished the opportunity to build his small, family-run brand from scratch. And unlike his corporate winemaking days, he is hands on at every stage of the process, from

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41:23

Woodford Reserve bourbon master distiller, Elizabeth...

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2024/12/09

We're joined this episode by Elizabeth McCall, master distiller of Woodford Reserve in Kentucky.Elizabeth was not really a whiskey enthusiast when she first joined parent company Brown-Forman in 2009 as a member of the research and development department. But she soon developed a taste for it, becoming a master taster in 2015, before being effectively anointed as successor to the legendary Chris Morris when she was appointed assistant master distiller in 2018. When Elizabeth took the reigns in

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21:34

Gun duo launch First Light Brewing, Wollongong NSW

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2024/11/21

Haydon Morgan and Damien Ryan are the founders of First Light Brewing Co, a start-up in Wollongong, NSW.You may recall Haydon’s voice from the special documentary episode we did on Australian brewing legend Chuck Hahn a few years ago now. Haydon and Damien are both longstanding residents of the Illawarra region and they met each other while working at Lion, where they realised they had complementary skillsets for setting up a brewery of their own. Haydon finished up with Lion in 2023 as brewery

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