This week on Radio Brews News wehave a quick catch up with Simon Coghlan, one of the team behind the Ballarat Beer Festival that is being held for the first time in January 2012.

Ballarat Beer Festival

Feral's head brewer Brendan Varis

Then we catch up with Brendan Varis from Feral Brewing.

Brendan was on the steering committee involved in setting up Craft Beer Limited, the new national association of craft brewers. Brendan talks about the association and what they aim to achieve in craft beer over the next five years. We then talk about Feral Brewing and Brendan’s beer plans. We learn about his impending King Brown Ale, aged in 60-year-old cognac casks, that he has a new 50 hectolitre brewery on order which will be coming on-stream around March next year and also learn that Hop Hog and White may not be the beers that Brendan himself drinks…

More information:

Craft Beer Limited

Feral Brewing

For those who stick til the end, you will be rewarded with Bobby Vinton’s interpretation of Roll Out the Barrel, which you will no doubt want to add to your growing collection of Polka favourites. You can purchase it here.

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