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Tradition down under
By: Gary Blomeley
01/03/2012
Australia and New Zealand are relatively young countries. Since European settlement we have a surprising blend of traditions, some of which come from the early European customs, some from subsequent migrants and some are ‘homegrown’ as a result of the environment, history, religious or other factors including war and tragedy.
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Robbing the Excise - The Story of Black Cork
By: Robert Knops
01/03/2012
Many of you will be familiar with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The story was inspired by Edinburgh’s notorious Deacon Brodie. In the 1780s William Brodie was by day a respectable citizen, Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons and Wrights and a leading member of the community. But he led a double life and was a heavy gambler frequenting drinking dens and he had several mistresses.
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Serving brewers and distillers since 1740 - A look at Briggs of Burton over the last 272 years
By: Roger Putman
01/03/2012
Readers will have spotted a new advert from Briggs of Burton celebrating its involvement in the brewing and distilling sector since 1740. Such longevity is to be applauded, so rather than punishing himself on a long trip to meet with a German brewery supplier, the Editor drove just three miles down the road to see what has made Briggs tick for the past 272 years.
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Coopers celebrates 150 years of brewing
By: Nick Sterenberg
01/03/2012
South Australian-based Coopers Brewery is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and is already setting its sights on the future. The acquisition of Fosters by SABMiller in late 2011 meant that Coopers entered 2012 with the title of the largest remaining Australianowned brewer, having been securely in family hands since its founder, Thomas Cooper, produced his first commercial brew in May 1862.
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New Zealand’s other maltster
By: Simon Bretherton
01/03/2012
Situated on the Canterbury Plains on New Zealand’s South Island, Gladfield Malt was founded in 2003 by Doug Michael. Canterbury has long been regarded as the prime growing region in New Zealand of premium malting barley.
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Half a century and not out. Taste and analysis of a 50 year old beer
By: Gregory Organ
01/03/2012
The flavour stability of beer is of interest to all brewers. Most studies of beer flavour typically involve samples stored at room temperature for up to three years or stored at higher temperatures (typically up to 60°C) for a few months. One paper discusses a sample of beer stored at room temperature for ten years. Recently we were given the unique opportunity to taste and analyse a bottle of beer stored at room temperature for 50 years.
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Oasis in the desert - Brewing at Mildura
By: Rod Williams
01/03/2012
Brewer & Distiller International • March 2012 • www.ibd.org.uk Brewery profile 43 Reportedly enjoying more hours of sunshine than even Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, the Mildura region has a long and prosperous history of fruit growing and can boast almost a quarter of Australia’s wine grape harvest. The region is host to some of the country’s best known wine companies, and since 2004 it has also been the home of the Mildura Brewery, a micro-brewery turning out a diverse range of craft beers in the fabulous surroundings of Mildura’s old 1920s-built Astor Theatre.
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Brewing a prize winning Belgian style wit beer in Malaysia
By: Tim O'Rourke
01/03/2012
Malaysia has two major brewing groups, Carlsberg and Guinness Anchor Berhad (GAB) producing Guinness, Heineken and Tiger which share the bulk of a two million hectolitre market. There is however a third, less well known, player in the market, called Napex, which is a privately owned. When I joined their team in 2009 they had one product, Jaz beer, which was only sold in bottle and can.
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Nelson – craft beer Mecca: The development of Beer Tourism in New Zealand
By: Doug Donelan
01/03/2012
Early last year I was invited to Chair a committee that was being formed in the Nelson region of New Zealand. The group’s charter was to raise community awareness of the region’s Craft Beer Industry and in particular promote craft beer as a component of the existing regional tourist destination offering.
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Where the water meets the sand - When in doubt head True South
By: Samara Füss, Tanya Harrowell
01/03/2012
Built in 2009 from the bones of an early 1900s garage, True South is a family-owned venture created by Grant and Suzanne Dow, located on Port Phillip Bay some 20km south of the centre of Melbourne.
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Beer drinking in Australia ... It’s no longer just for the boys
By: Kirrily Waldhorn
01/03/2012
Australia’s first lady of beer lifts the lid on the largely untapped market of female beer drinkers in Australia, highlighting that many ‘fem-ales’ are willing to give the boys a run for their money!
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Rex wins a prize - Home brewers are talked about around the world
By: Stu McKinlay
01/03/2012
On a dark and stormy weekend in July 2008, with a stiff Antarctic blast buffeting New Zealand’s southernmost brewery,my old beer hunting friend Sam Possenniskie and I warmed ourselves on the steamrising from the mash tun of Invercargill Brewery’s 12-hectolitre plant as we nervously doughed-in our first commercial beer.