Episode 2 – Show Notes 


Here at Beer O’Clock Australia we’re not known for doing things in a particularly timely fashion. This time we were looking good, having recorded almost a month to the day after our first episode of the podcast. Life then got in the way and we ended up the best part of two weeks behind, as usual! Sorry if anyone has been hanging out for the second installment of this look at the, slightly dated, goings on in the Australian beer scene.

We’re going to rotate some segments in and out, especially early on while we get into the swing of things – so if there is anything you love or hate, please let us know! The idea at the moment is that the podcast will be (roughly) monthly, and we’ll try and keep that pretty regular – at least more so than I’ve kept the blog up to date recently… Basically every month we’ll discuss some of the latest news from the beer world, we’ll talk about some beers that we’ve been enjoying over the last month & we’ll crack something interesting from my cellar.

This month we recorded on a brew day, so included the new segment “What Are We Brewing?”. Let us know your thoughts if this is something you’d like to hear more of. We had a lot of news that we wanted to get through this month so kept it to just the core segments outside of the home brew that we kept mentioning as we ducked off to check it at various points throughout the day.


 Show Notes

News Items

  • Barrow Boys Closure
  • Grand Ridge relaunching West City
  • Stone & Wood’s new brewpub in Brisbane
  • The Pacific Ale trademark dispute is over!
  • Matso’s purchased by Gage Roads
  • Mornington purchased by Tribe
  • Boozebud purchased by AB-Inbev
  • Sydney Royal Beer & Cider Show Awards
  • Holgate’s New Brewery & Visitors Centre. 
  • Brewers Association of the United States Report
  • Garage Project’s Monthly Cellar-Door Only IPA

What We’ve Been Drinking

  • Our Tallboy & Moose Collaboration Berried Alive
  • New English & U.S.A imports 
    • Toppling Goliath 
    • Against the Grain 
    • North Brewing 
    • Northern Monk
  • Dylan’s Malaysia Trip
    • Guinness Bright
  • Little Creatures The Fuggle is Real
  • North Brewing & Verdant Brewing Triple Fruited Gose

What Are We Brewing?

  • New Batch of The Reiffel
    • Our American Blonde Ale
    • American Ale Malt & Wheat
    • Mosaic, Mandarina Bavaria & Galaxy
    • White Labs Kolsch Yeast (WLP029)

    Desert Island 6-pack

    • Red Ales – The definition was hard here to define here. We stumped for anything that isn’t sour. From Irish Red Ales to Imperial Red IPA’s were permissible.
    • This month we only had one cross over
      •  Mismatch Evil Archie
    • Dylan’s 5 individuals;
        • Exit Amber Ale, Mountain Goat Fancy Pants, Barrow Boys India Amber Ale, Hargreaves Hill The Phoenix & Two Birds Sunset Ale
    • Noz’s 5 individuals;
        • Modus Operandi Former Tenant, Prancing Pony India Red Ale, Noisy Minor Admiral Ackbar, Epic Hop Dozer & Nøgne Ø x Holgate Half a World Away
    Noz’s Cellar
    • Jolly Pumpkin x La Sirene Costa Dei Villa
    There we have it guys, hope you enjoy Episode 2 of the Beer O’Clock Australia podcast. As usual send any questions, feedback or comments to gus.norris7@gmail.com. We took on board the couple of emails we received last time around and thank you guys for taking the time to give us some feedback. Please let us know if you think we’ve improved in this episode. The next episode will hopefully be up in mid-October.

    Remember it’s always Beer O’Clock somewhere in the world!