One Drop Whero, Wonderland By Day & Liquid Motueka Beer
When the average beer fiend thinks of One Drop, they’re probably thinking big, silly glitter-laden pastry beers or 12 percent ABV sours with a full three months of visa-obligated fruit picker labour packed into each can. What’s missing from this picture is Nick Calder-Scholes and his team tucked…
Aussie Exports: Gerad Giles News
Aussie Exports is a series in which we check in on Australians doing cool things in beer overseas. We've been to Europe, New Zealand and Hong Kong and, this time around, we're back in Canada.There, in British Columbia, you'll find where former Esperance and Freo inhabitant Gerad Giles, who lucked upon…
Aussie Exports: Oh Danada! News
While he may not be Australian according to his passport, during his time in Melbourne, Dan Johnston became an integral part of the good beer scene as the manager of Forester’s Hall. Now back in his homeland of Canada, Dan has continued to spread the word in his role as Business Development Manager…
Aussie Exports: Zac From Zenith News
The global beer network never fails to throw up pleasant surprises. There we were, on the Saturday morning of this year's Fresh Hop Festival in Launceston, sitting down to an Ocho-hosted beer brunch and looking forward to an afternoon sampling fresh hop beers. Among the diners outside The Sebel…
Aussie Exports: Brendan Without Borders News
After making the move from Melbourne to Wellington in late 2014, Brendan Amos landed on his feet in the beer world, scoring a gig at beer distribution company Beer Without Borders not long after his arrival. Since then, he has upped sticks again to make the move to Auckland, where the craft beer scene…
Aussie Exports: Tracy Gan News
Our Aussie Exports series has so far featured Australians who have moved overseas and are working in beer. This month, we change tack slightly to bring you insights from Tracy Gan, a Hong Kong native by way of Queensland who now spends her days importing Australian beers to her craft beer store. Literal…
Aussie Exports: The Beer Podcast News
For the most part, our Aussie Exports series has focused on Australians who have found work in breweries in other parts of the world. Today, however, we feature a pair doing something rather different: running a beer podcast from their adopted home, London. Michael Lally and Nic Crilly-Hargrave were…
Aussie Exports: Lost And Grounded – Revisited News
In April 2016, we launched a new series called Aussie Exports. The aim was to tell the stories of Aussies who were enjoying adventures in beer overseas. The series kicked off with Alex Troncoso (admittedly an honorary Aussie, albeit one who had been head brewer at Little Creatures) and Annie Clements.…
Aussie Exports: Newfoundland Nardia News
Back in 2010, we spoke to then Bridge Road brewer Nardia McGrath about her favourite brews, beer styles and how she got into the world of craft beer. Fast forward to present day and you’ll find Nardia in Newfoundland, Canada, on the verge of launching her brand new brewery, Pig &…
Aussie Exports: Brent Soutar News
When it comes to well-travelled Aussie brewers, Brent Soutar has got to be up there. From the day he decided to pursue a career in brewing about ten years ago, he moved from Australia to Chicago to London to Melbourne to Berlin to California. Didn’t quite keep up? I’ll slow it down for you. He…
Aussie Exports: Natalie Wollenberg News
Earlier this year, we caught up with MC and beer podcaster Craig Thorn as part of our Aussie Export series. As we chatted, Craig mentioned a few other Australians he knew who had embedded themselves in Canada's craft beer scene and went on to introduce us to Natalie Wollenberg. In 2014,…
Aussie Exports: Charlotte Feehan News
As COVID-19 spread across the globe early last year and borders slammed shut, a brutal choice faced many who had been building their lives in new countries. Stay in the place you're in or make the move back home? For Charlotte Feehan, she chose to stick it out in Melbourne, a place she'd…
Aussie Exports: The Lone Pine News
Having left the beaches of Manly behind for the boroughs of his wife's home city of London, Adrian Lugg – formerly part of the 4 Pines family – landed on his feet, scoring a gig at London’s Sambrook’s Brewery as their head of marketing. As the latest in our Aussie Exports series,…
Aussie Exports: Penyllan Brewery News
Bornholm is a tiny Danish island sitting in the Baltic Sea that's home to some 40,000 people. Despite the island's natural beauty and popularity with tourists from across Europe, it's remoteness tends to keep it at arm's length from most Aussie holidaymakers. But not all are unaware of its charms. One…
Aussie Exports: Jimmy Krekelberg News
There are few shipments from overseas that excite local beer aficionados as much as those from De Molen, the Dutch brewery that's one of the highest rated in the world. For one Aussie beer lover, however, things have moved well beyond waiting for their beers to arrive – he's ended up working there. Indeed,…
Aussie Exports: Dean McLeod News
He might call Canada home these days but before moving to British Columbia Dean McLeod's brewing CV in Australia featured something of a Who's Who of Australia's craft brewing pioneers – stretching back to before the term "craft" was even a thing. These days, a decade into his adventures on Vancouver…
Aussie Exports: Mike Roberts - Cru Brewing Systems News
Australians love to travel. So much so, in fact, that it’s something of a universal truth (and global punchline) that you can be at a bar in just about any place on earth and, as soon as someone hears your accent, you'll hear: “G’day! Whereabouts are you from?” The last time it happened…
Aussie Exports: Annette May News
It's more or less impossible to conceive of a local craft beer industry like the one we have here today if it wasn't for so many Australians spending time in North America. Whether it was backpacking through California or moving to New York for a new job, countless brewery owners…
Aussie Exports: Beerbliotek News
Just before Christmas last year, a barman at Mother Kelly's in Bethnal Green was eager to point us in the direction of beers from Swedish outfit Beerbliotek, explaining they were producing some of the most interesting and high quality beers passing through his taps and fridges. Months later, while…
Aussie Exports: Fergal Carroll News
In recent years, Australians looking to partake in Dry July while still enjoying a beer have enjoyed a far wider choice than ever before. Breweries have expanded their lineups to include non-alcs, several make nothing else, and you've even got the likes of the boundary-pushing Mash Gang, which…
Aussie Exports: Trystam Hayden News
When you grow up in the belly of a brewery – a legendary brewery, no less – what are the chances you’ll become a brewery owner yourself? For Trystam Hayden, the odds of forging a different path certainly seem to have been stacked against him from early on. As the son of Blair Hayden – who…