Episode 1

Beer O'Clock Australia

The new venture I was being very vague about in my post a few days ago was Beer O'Clock Australia's first foray into a new medium; audio. Dylan & I are going to give this podcast a go for a while and see how it goes. It's going to give us the opportunity to discuss beer in a way that the blog doesn't really allow us to.

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 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 also discuss the hottest new style in craft beer; the Brut IPA. We also speak about a bright green licorice flavoured Gose from Red Button Brew in Moscow & discuss which Pilsner's we would each take in a bottomless mixed 6-pack to a desert island. The show is embedded below & hopefully we'll have it up on a few more podcast sites in the near future.

Show Notes

News Items

• Royal Perth Beer Awards
• Australian Brewery & Fourpure Takeovers
• Coopers Pale Ale in Cans
• Crisp Malting's Australian Distribution deal
• Canned Beer Sales to Overtake Bottled Beer Sales
• Bridge Road's New Hopped Cola

What We've Been Drinking

• Red Button POiMA
• Noz's Russia Trip
• Noz & Dylan - Tallboy & Moose Berried Alive Brew Day

What's in Style?

• Brut IPA's
  • Wolf of the Willows, Tallboy & Moose, Mr Banks

Desert Island 6-pack

• We both pick 6 Pilsner's - 3 of which made both our lists
  • Pilsner Urquell, Emerson's NZ Pilsner, Bridge Road Enigma,
  • Victory Prima Pils, Panhead Port Road Pils, Balter Pilsner, Hop Nation The Damned, Weihenstephaner Pilsner, Mikkeller American Dream

Noz's Cellar

• Mikkeller x Lindeman's SpontanBasil

So there we have it guys. Hope you liked the first episode of the Beer O'Clock podcast. We'd both love to hear any feedback you've got. We'll be tweaking a couple of things for the next episode, which we'll aim to have out in late-August/early-September. As usual send any questions or comments to [e-mail].

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