2020 has thrown up so many strange situations for us all; not many would be stranger than the Beer O’Clock Australia podcast going live less than 20 hours after we finished recording the last bit of content! Thanks so much to Ben Duval from Carwyn for jumping online with us & talking us through two of their major projects in what has been a challenging year.
If this is your first time listening to a Beer O’Clock Australia podcast, welcome! We change the segments up a little each month, however most months 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, although recent restrictions are making this difficult…
This is a special edition of the podcast where we’re focusing on two of Carwyn’s project’s that we’ve found enjoyable. We’ll hopefully be back with a more regular episode in a couple of weeks & we hope you enjoy this special edition.
Show Notes
Intro
Ben Duval – Collaborational (0:36)
- Inspiration
- Pairing the Breweries/Curating the Beers
- COVID – Challenges
- Plans for next year
Collaborational Beers Discussion (14:00)
We chose to approach this by looking at the brewery pairings, what we thought they would produce & what they ended up producing – rather than just providing tasting notes for every beer.
- Sailors Grave – Arizona Wilderness (US)
- Ocho – Stillwater Artisinal (US)
- Mismatch – Track (UK)
- Felons – Firestone Walker (US)
- Edge – Beer Here (Denmark)
- Boatrocker – De Molen (Netherlands)
- Otherside – Garage Project (NZ)
- Deeds – Outer Range (US)
- Hawkers – Bale Breaker (US)
- One Drop – Cascade (US)
- Mr Banks – Interboro (US)
Awards (26:02)
- Top 5 Festival Beers
- Most Diappointing
- Most Surprising
- Best Can Artwork
- People’s Awards
Canvent (40:38)
- Logistical Nightmare
- More Packs, More Boxes, Unforseen Challenges
- Brewery Selection
- Replacing Beer 2
- Why they had to make the call to pull it
- See what could’ve happened had they not made that call!
- Hawkers turning a replacement around in less than a week!
- Mini Can of Barleywine to kick off the Canvent
- The decision behind the 2 boxes
Thanks again for listening guys. Please like, subscribe, review us on your podcast platform of choice – everything helps more people find the show. As usual; questions, comments, suggestions or general statements to angus@beeroclockaustralia.com or dylan@beeroclockaustralia.com & we’ll be back later this month!
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