The Provocative Brewer: Tap Contracts, Contract Brewing & the End of Innocence
Sat 14th May 3pm-5pm
Tickets $20+BF through Oztix HERE
Tasting, discussion and friendly shit-stir with Hawkers/961 Beer founder and Brewer Mazen Hajjar including the launch of Wheaty Brewing Corps/Hawkers collaboration ‘Tripoli’
Maz doesn’t pull his punches. Which is exactly what you’d expect from someone who started 961 Beer, the first Craft Brewery in the Middle East (during a war, no less), brewed and sold beer in Europe and New York and last year launched Hawkers Beer in Melbourne with co-founder Joseph Abboud. With a state of the art Brewery cranking out some of the cleanest beers in the country, while contract brewing beers for a host of other Brewing companies (often brewing them better than the brewing companies themselves), Hawkers don't muck around.
Nor do they buy Taps. But plenty of Craft Brewers do. What are Tap Contracts? Are they a help or hindrance to the craft beer Industry? Are they anti-competitive or do they help to grow the Craft? Should ‘pay to play’ be banned here as it is in the USA?
And what of contract brewing – does it matter where or who brews your Craft beer?
Any other sticky questions?
Join Maz for a rip-roaring ride through his ‘outsider’ insight into the Australian craft beer scene; controversially paired with enough Hawkers to facilitate lively debate. Game on.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
TICKETS THROUGH OZTIX 1300 762 545 OZTIX.COM.AU
Download the full Good Beer Wheaty program HERE
