The Australian International Beer Awards were held during Good Beer Week in Melbourne, and the who’s who of the Australian beer industry was all in the one room…and I had a new toy to play with, a mobile recording device…and so was born Roaming Beer Healer! In this episode I do my best to […]
When I started this podcast, I wanted to make sure I was telling the great stories of the craft beer industry…you know, have a crack at doing my best journalist impression. I felt that with no-one else to bounce conversations around with, and many others already doing very well with the format of having fun […]
I’ve been doing this Beer Healer thing across multiple social media platforms for about 4 years now. I thought I knew a little bit about the world of Social Media…until my guest on this podcast set me straight on a few things. Mariella Mejia is a one time freelance marketer who now runs a […]
Brewers of all ages, and experience levels, have a listen to Dr Tom Shelhammer drop some pearls of wisdom about hops in this episode. Dr Shelhammer was in Tasmania to conduct a session at the Fresh Hop Beer Festival in Launceston, and as luck would have it, he was staying only a few minutes […]
There are some amazing beers being brewed in Queensland these days. Only a few years ago, the craft beer scene in the Sunshine State was pretty quiet, but all of a sudden there are new breweries and pubs popping up all over the place. Slowly but surely these new kids on the block are converting […]
I met my guest at one of the world’s smallest beer festivals…From the Wilderness, in Evandale, Tasmania. On a holiday with his partner Nadia, somehow Rick Bennie managed to convince her to spend their final day in Tasmania at a beer festival two hours away from their camping spot. And they had an early […]
The idea for this episode came from a chat I had with The Beer Pilgrim about Beer Tourism. He had so many great stories from his travels and I wondered if some of the people I interact with on social media had some too…and they did! In this episode, Matt King recounts his trip […]
Good Beer Week began in 2011 with the first festival being thrown together by a very small team of beer lovers in a few week, which resulted in over 50 events in 40 venues in Melbourne, Victoria. Showcasing the social, flavoursome and diverse world of, the event was a huge success and continues to grow […]
Stu Grant from Ocho Beer comes across as a pretty quiet guy, but bloody hell, he loves a chat. He is also a massive beer nerd…so I guess that makes my job easy a craft beer podcast host! Stu has spent the last few years working by day with Will Tatchell at Van Dieman […]
A few years ago, the wife and I took the kids on a family holiday to Vietnam. It was such a great experience for us all, the sights, the sounds the unique food and of course the amazing people. Before taking my trip I did a bit of research and found out that the was […]
