Beer Reflections

Another fun write up for The Crafty Pint and the team at Cornella Brewery

Cornella Brewery Canyonero & Marching On Together Craft beer's packaging often draws inspiration from popular culture. Nods to TV, classic film, sports, or simply nostalgia are part and parcel of the craft beer industry and for Cornella Brewery, their double release sees them lean into some favourites for the brewery's founders. Craft beer fandom.....

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More competition called for in beer industry ‘duopoly’ Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis from Laura Tingle.

Celebrate St Patrick's Day while still supporting your local brewery. Or, if you believe the myth that stouts are heavy beers for winter only, try the tropical Electro Dude instead.

Cornella Brewery

Cornella Brewery Electro Dude & Old Town Cornella Brewery has been experimenting with Nectaron for some time. In late 2021, I wrote about Electro Nectar for the [Bendigo Beer blog](https://bendigobeer.com/cornella-brewery-electro-nectar/) and that was followed by Neutron Nectar in March 2022. **Electro Dude** continues the brewery's romanc...

Attention NSW Members - NSW Undesirable Liquor Products Consultation – What is the risk to your business if the law changes? Have your say now!

If the proposed regulatory change is adopted, it could have significant implications. For example, if a product is deemed to be ‘undesirable’ it would no longer be able to be sold in NSW.

Could any of your products meet the new definition? Its important we hear from you now. https://bit.ly/3uFMw54

Saturday the 24th of Feb is Local Beer Day. Check out the map at the link below and find an event near you. Have a beer and support your local venue. They need it now more than ever.

If you're running an event, don't forget to register. You'll be supporting the great crew making Local Beer Day happen.

Keeping Local Alive
The Crafty Pint

Feb 24, 2024 HOW DO I GET INVOLVED? Local Beer Day is an opportunity for beer lovers to come together at their local breweries, bars and bottleshops as they host hundreds of events across the country. Beer Industry Folks If you own or work at a local, Australian-owned brewery, bar or bottleshop, you can register...

A source of my inspiration is gone. I guess it's just more encouragement to have faith in myself.

An Ongoing Conversation On Friday, the 2nd of February 2024, the story appeared on the Brews News website announcing the end. What does this mean for beer media in Australia?

These are the hits and misses of my GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers 2023 predictions. Check out the recap for a 46% accuracy score. See which ones I called correctly and which I missed by a long shot.

Results of My Predictions for GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers of 2023 These are the hits and misses of my GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers 2023 predictions. Check out the recap for a 46% accuracy score. See which ones I called correctly and which I missed by a long shot.

It's upon us again. The GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers will be announced on Saturday, January 27th. Can Mountain Culture retain the top spot with Status Quo, and will Cervezas make a splash? Will some long-time favourites drop out altogether? Read along as I make predictions for 28 beers.

Predictions for the 2023 GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers - Beer Reflections It's upon us again. The GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers will be announced on Saturday, the 27th of January. Can Mountain Culture retain the top spot with Status Quo, and will Cervezas make a splash? Will some long-time favourites drop out altogether? Read along as I make predictions for 28 beers.

Are craft beer consumers tiring of pithy names in favour of simple descriptors that relieve the mental load when choosing. There's certainly a lot to choose from these days. Perhaps standing out is no longer clever and memorable, but simple and accessible. But what does this do to the rich culture of craft beer?

Hop On Brewery Tours aren't just a beer tour service. They're passionate supporters of the industry and more knowledgeable about the space than they get credit for.

Read along for their thoughts on craft beer names.

No-name beers revisited A beer without a name What do you think of when you see the names Fat Tire, Mirror Pond, Delerium Tremens, Dead Guy, Death from Above, Pliny the Elder, Fat Yak, Tripel Karmeliet or Super Hornet?

A bit of work behind this one.

Another look at the ubiquity of in-store brands.

Who Owns My Beer? - From Pillar to Post Pinnacle Drinks presence in the craft beer fridge continues to grow. The majors are standing their ground and Indies are under threat.

Love writing up beers at The Crafty Pint for my friends at Shedshaker Brewing

Shedshaker Brewing Scotch Ale & New England IPA With this duo of beers, Castlemaine's Shedshaker Brewing continues its foray into less familiar territory while refining old favourites amongst staunch brewery supporters. In terms of style, they make for an odd pair given ones a rarely seen scotch and the other is a near ubiquitous hazy under the N...

Cornella slide into summer with the smooth grooves of Astro Dude As summer approaches, the team at Cornella Brewery shifts its focus to producing refreshing, easy-drinking beers. As such, Astro Dude signals the last of the brewery's bigger, hop-laden releases for the year. Pale amber with a slight haze, the beer's frothy, slowly dissipating white head leaves beau...

This is a Festbier. It's the style of lager served in Germany at traditional Oktoberfest events.

But, this one was made not far from where I live.

If you're going to a local Oktoberfest event, particularly one with traditional German style food made with local ingredients...

Ask them if they're serving locally made beer too.

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Great beers. Fun write up. But I slid in an 80's film reference for good measure.

Cornella Brewery Vicious Annie & Mango Salsa Visitors to Cornella Brewery should be familiar with Annie. She's gentle and friendly, like the brewery's flagship NEIPA that shares her name. But something's found its way into the playful pup's water: now she's frothing at the mouth and eating the furniture. She's donned a leather jacket, styled a...

I've written about this a few times in my blog's 'Who Owns My Beer?' series.

Most beer drinkers, even those who aren't too fussed with such things, know that historically there have been two main players in the beer market, Carlton United Breweries, makers of Cartlon Draught, VB, Great Northern etc., and Lion, who most people recognise for Thooeys branded beers. The craft beer brands they own, Furphy, James Squire, Balter, Pirate Life, Stone & Wood, and others, are widely known.

But there are new players in the beer space, and their cleverly branded products and marketing strategy are going relatively unnoticed even to discerning beer drinkers. Both Coles and Endeavor Drinks Group (Dan Murphy's and BWS) are releasing more and more of their own beer products onto their shelves and edging out the independent brewers they purported to support during the pandemic. With the market data they've gathered, and don't share, they can replicate and replace those products, capitalising on the innovation of small producers and taking none of the risk.

Lobbyists for small independent brewers, such as the Independent Brewers Association , have a fraction of the resources of the supermarket duopoly. The ACCC is a toothless tiger and government are only interested if there are votes in it.

However, we can all affect change if we insist on locally made, independently owned beer from our bottleshops and pubs.

I'll have more to say on this soon and I'm working on something to help those who care where their beer money is being spent.

Until then, support local and ask for indie beer.

Brews News Bendigo Beer

Coopers and IBA call out retailers on market power The impact of the concentration in the Australian retail market on brewers has been scrutinized at a Federal parliamentary inquiry with both Coopers and the Independent Brewers Association claiming the power of the major retailers harms the beer market.

These two beers were like apples and oranges. Good thing I like all fruit.

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The Crafty Pint

https://craftypint.com/beer/9964/shedshaker-brewing-west-coast-ipa-and-golden-strong-ale

Don't muck around. Tickets selling faster than I've ever seen.

Bendigo On The Hop
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Bendigo On The Hop Bendigo On The Hop is Bendigo Beer's flagship event. Find all the latest information here.

Don't muck around. Tickets seeking faster than I've ever seen.

Bendigo On The Hop
Bendigo Beer

https://bendigobeer.com/bendigo-on-the-hop/

Another one I'm proud to have written up. Looking forward to a visit again soon Brewers Collective

The Crafty Pint
Bendigo Beer

Who Brews As The Brewers Collective? Bendigo is a regional Victorian city known for good food and wine and a fervent community that embraces craft beer. Yet, despite the presence of stalwart craft beer-supporting venues such as The Cambrian Hotel, The Dispensary Bar and Diner, Handle Bar and The Hop Supply Co, as well as a production ...

Great discussion in last week's episode of Brews News Brews News Week on the threat posed by supermarket craft beer brands. There's awareness of "big beer craft" brands in most beer lover circles. But the supermarket brands often fly under the radar.

#414 One Dollar Milk This week the team discuss online liquor sales review and calls for real teeth in regulating large retailers.

Cornella's Bucolic Wine Country Brewery When it comes to alcohol, there can be a tendency to divide. Beer drinkers are beer drinkers and wine drinkers are wine drinkers. But reality has a habit of casting such ideas aside and nowhere does that happen more clearly than at Cornella Brewery and The Shiraz Republic in Central Victoria. Locate...

Happy to call the brewers of Cold Mate, my mates. I'm honoured to be able to write this one for the team at Cornella Brewery .

Thanks to the editorial team at The Crafty Pint for punching up my loose arrangement of words.

Cornella Brewery Cold Mate Cornella Brewery are always keen to brew en vogue styles so it seems only natural Cornella Brewery for their attention to turn to one of IPA's coolest cool kids, the Cold IPA. As we’ve explored here, the style is brewed with lager yeast, and fermented at above-normal temperatures. Does that make i...

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Applications for volunteers at the Indies 2022 judging are closing tomorrow, sign up to begin your beer judging journey, network and enjoy some stellar perks along the way!
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Breweries of Bendigo On The Hop 2022 Vol.2 Archives - Bendigo Beer Breweries of BOTH 2022 Vol.2 – Melbourne Might By Daniel Ridd • Aug 23, 2022 Read about the Melbourne breweries attending Bendigo On The Hop 2022 Vol.2.

https://bendigobeer.com/breweries-of-bendigo-on-the-hop-2022-vol-2-regional-victoria/

Breweries of BOTH 2022 Vol.2 - Regional Victoria Bendigo On The Hop 2022 Vol.2 will be hosting some great breweries from regional Victoria. Check them out here.

Are you ready? Tickets are on sale soon. Get your crew ready for 27 August.

Day two of my Brisbane beer tour.

Hop On Brewery Tours Helios Brewing Company Ballistic Beer Black Hops Brewing Revel Brewing Co. Milton Common The Scratch Brewski

https://www.beerreflections.com.au/brisbane-beer-tour-2022-part-2/

https://www.beerreflections.com.au/brisbane-beer-tour-2022-part-three

Brisbane Beer Tour 2022 - Part Two Day two. The adventure begins proper with Hop On Brewery Tours. Ballistic, Helios, Revel and Black Hops.