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Speaker 2: So yesterday Jack and I went out to the Hawker's Brewery,
Speaker 2: which seemed to be especially convenient round the corner from
Speaker 2: Jack's house. Amazing place. Hawkers are the kind people who
Speaker 2: were a couple of weeks ago when we had the
Speaker 2: idea that we wanted to come back and do something
Speaker 2: to try and raise money for the Bushfire relief fund
Speaker 2: here in Victoria. We were trying to come up with
Speaker 2: various ideas and we come with the idea of could
Speaker 2: we have our own Bushfire beer, which actually went into
Speaker 2: production yesterday.
Speaker 1: You'll going to buy it very very soon.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping hoping to give you some great news tomorrow
Speaker 2: about when you can actually get hold of it as well.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Hawkers of the kind people. They're an independent
Speaker 2: brewery here in Melbourne, and we went out there yesterday
Speaker 2: to be there to see just to see what they're
Speaker 2: actually doing. And we went out there yesterday and if
Speaker 2: you've ever heard them on the show, we've had Marsen
Speaker 2: on the show, who's the guy actually set up the
Speaker 2: brewery five years ago when he moved here. And they
Speaker 2: couldn't have been any kind of to us seriously, they've
Speaker 2: done this briskit that had been cooking for about nine hours.
Speaker 2: They had like a whole thing up the front of
Speaker 2: the fractory where the the whole team came out and
Speaker 2: we had a couple of beers with them. They gave
Speaker 2: us a two of the brewery. And whilst Jack was
Speaker 2: doing his normal thing of asking for free merchandise, which
Speaker 2: he is wearing right now, I was.
Speaker 3: Just trying to support you.
Speaker 1: You see where I was.
Speaker 2: I was in that factory loading up hops into a
Speaker 2: mash ton. Of course, if you're familiar with the brewing process,
Speaker 2: we all know what the mash ton is. It is
Speaker 2: the heart is the powerhouse of any brewing process. And
Speaker 2: you might be thinking, Christian, what kind of hops? Because
Speaker 2: with the broom process, to the laymen, there are two
Speaker 2: types of hops. There's the first hops that go in
Speaker 2: early on in the process and that's for the taste,
Speaker 2: and at the end you get the aromatic hops that
Speaker 2: go in for the for the smell, because so much
Speaker 2: of our taste comes from smell. I was loading in
Speaker 2: the smell hops just to try and speed up the
Speaker 2: process because this baby needs to come out in two
Speaker 2: weeks time.
Speaker 1: So she were geting to teach us a lugging in
Speaker 1: Kilo quila.
Speaker 2: I mention, what my brown sweat's a hot one today
Speaker 2: We've got a big mash tumbrew going on more and more.
Speaker 1: This hero's gold hops coming in.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm worried about. Do we need some kind
Speaker 3: of warning label? Now on the packaging and on the
Speaker 3: can it says this was made by a non professional.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, excuse me. I was under supervision by a
Speaker 2: master brewer. He has passed down the ancient secrets. I
Speaker 2: am now a trainee master brewer. You know, by the way,
Speaker 2: it's four point three percent, okay, so it's like a
Speaker 2: mid strength larger. But I didn't realize that the four
Speaker 2: point three is because of one oh four point three.
Speaker 1: Clever. I did not know. I been staring at that.
Speaker 2: Label for a good week, haven't we, And I just
Speaker 2: thought it was the beer ABV. I didn't know any
Speaker 2: relevance to one oh four three, and so they got
Speaker 2: there yesterday.
Speaker 1: But what a great team.
Speaker 3: Was a great team. Now, let me ask you. They
Speaker 3: gave us a taste of the beer before it's done
Speaker 3: the fermenting process. So it's before it's got yeast and stuff.
Speaker 1: They can't be putting that in that can no.
Speaker 3: So I was going to say, do you like the
Speaker 3: taste of that?
Speaker 1: Of course not.
Speaker 2: You're not meant no sugar yet or the secret in view.
Speaker 3: Because they gave us a glass that was very very cloudy.
Speaker 2: Made for two hours, and that you're doing like a
Speaker 2: pot noodle instant bit. We're not giving that stuck to
Speaker 2: the things. It's like the real early bit. It's like
Speaker 2: did you did your did your dad ever do homebrew?
Speaker 1: No? God, when you're a lucky kid.
Speaker 2: Because my dad insisted that he could basically recreate the
Speaker 2: ancient brewing process in the understairs cupboard with a kit
Speaker 2: that cost him about twenty bucks.
Speaker 1: The smell for about.
Speaker 2: Four weeks in the house, this horrible yeasty it's a
Speaker 2: strange smell as that Yeastern hops, I don't know what
Speaker 2: it was. And then this silty muck that within goo
Speaker 2: it's finished. You know, they look like sorting to come
Speaker 2: out the dishwash and stuff like that. That strange smell,
Speaker 2: but no, only on in it.
Speaker 1: That's it. On'ly been doing for like two hours.
Speaker 3: That's good to know. Because they looked at us, you.
Speaker 2: Think they're going to put that in a can, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna say to our listeners, you wait, you tuck
Speaker 2: into this delicious Heroes raise one. That's if you can,
Speaker 2: because's going to weigh about half a keno just a
Speaker 2: pot of it.
Speaker 3: I was worried we'd have to put on a brave
Speaker 3: face and line of listeners.
Speaker 1: About Now that's the early bit.
Speaker 2: I think actually it's even before they had any sugar,
Speaker 2: which I think speeds up the whole.
Speaker 1: I think the technical term is yeasty process, a fermentation.
Speaker 1: That's the word pads.
Speaker 2: It speeds up the fermentation. The fermentation comes from the
Speaker 2: yeasty process. But again no, I'm not master brewer yet.
Speaker 2: I'm a trainee white belt in the master brewer. But
Speaker 2: tomorrow on the show we'ld have some good news about
Speaker 2: the beer Chris.
Speaker 1: John O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. So yesterday Jack and I
Speaker 1: went to Hawker's Brewery.
Speaker 2: They are the good people that are making our beer
Speaker 2: that comes out very very soon that you can enjoy,
Speaker 2: you can drink and support the great work of the
Speaker 2: Bushfire Heroes and that's why we call it Heroes Gold.
Speaker 2: So we done a Hawker's Brewery yesterday. We had an
Speaker 2: amazing time. They'd actually they'd actually turned a smoker on
Speaker 2: from three am in the morning to braze a beautiful
Speaker 2: beef brisket for us to have with all the team
Speaker 2: there that worked there, about fifteen of us out in
Speaker 2: the sunshine yesterday at the function at the front of
Speaker 2: their factory where they were brewing lots of their great
Speaker 2: Hawkers Beer Pilsner's IPAs lagers and also are soon to
Speaker 2: be an amazing beer Hero's Goal.
Speaker 1: We saw the big sort of.
Speaker 2: Vats the mash town they were making it in, bored
Speaker 2: some hops in as well, and we had a great
Speaker 2: time with them. They're a lovely team. We can be
Speaker 2: making beer with a better group of people though. They're
Speaker 2: all so nice. They really care about beer and they're
Speaker 2: really really heavily involved in this beer and trying to
Speaker 2: make it as good as possible for you guys, and
Speaker 2: support what we're doing as well. Tomorrow on the show,
Speaker 2: we're hoping to have some really really exciting news. It
Speaker 2: doesn't come out to the middle of February, but tomorrow
Speaker 2: I hope I've got some news for you where you
Speaker 2: could get it before anybody else, before it even gets
Speaker 2: too Dan Murphy's and b W Wes, which he does
Speaker 2: in middle of February. We have an icutly couple of
Speaker 2: people to thank. Yesterday on the show, we were looking
Speaker 2: for anyone who could help us out to make some
Speaker 2: beer coasters. Yep, and there's a Derek gave us a
Speaker 2: call from Cause Down Printing in Port Melbourne.
Speaker 1: They're going to make get this five. I mean, do
Speaker 1: we need that one? Five thousand coasters?
Speaker 3: We won't know what to do with them all?
Speaker 2: What does that do we even know? We've got five
Speaker 2: thousand listeners. We want me to move in the studio
Speaker 2: for coasters or twenty twenty coasters everywhere? Thanks guys, I
Speaker 2: mean we take them. You know, we're we can spread
Speaker 2: the word of heroes gold the beer. But thanks so
Speaker 2: much for doing that. That's great. Five thousand coasters. When
Speaker 2: we went the brewery yesterday as well, Maleson was telling
Speaker 2: me who's the main man there? That a lorry driver
Speaker 2: lorry driver turned up yesterday with a delivery and from
Speaker 2: a different courier company that they don't use drop something
Speaker 2: off there. And he said he was here listening to
Speaker 2: this show yesterday and heard what we're doing and ol
Speaker 2: hawkers are helping us out by.
Speaker 1: Making the beer.
Speaker 2: And he said, oh, look, I'll deliver all the kegs
Speaker 2: that you're delivering to various pubs and bars in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Don't call my company. I'll do it. This is my
Speaker 1: private lorry. I'll do it for free of charge.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a day of work delivering kegs of
Speaker 2: beer for free, just like everybody else. So many people
Speaker 2: wanting to do those bit That's what the beer is
Speaker 2: in the spirit of those people doing whatever it is,
Speaker 2: big or small, there's no big or small.
Speaker 1: That's the guy.
Speaker 2: We don't even know his name. And also, I say
Speaker 2: this about Australians, you are crazy. One of the guys
Speaker 2: I met there yesterday. It's a sales director, Mick larger
Speaker 2: life character, funny, funny guy right, And he says, I
Speaker 2: in the UK. I was in the UK the other month,
Speaker 2: and he goes, I took some beer over one.
Speaker 1: What did you do with that? Then he told me
Speaker 1: the story.
Speaker 2: He said he was staying in this little a little
Speaker 2: village just outside of London, place called Reading. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: There's that Elton John's got a place there out in
Speaker 2: the River Thames. It's stunning. They've got loads of musicians
Speaker 2: live around there, and he was staying there, and he
Speaker 2: was staying in near this village that just had a pub,
Speaker 2: just a village pub. You know, that's where we are
Speaker 2: in the UK alcoholics. You don't need stores, you just
Speaker 2: need a pub. And he said he was when he
Speaker 2: was in the pub and he was chatting to them
Speaker 2: and they, you know, making small talk and you know
Speaker 2: what's stralaing. You're very friendly people. And he was selling
Speaker 2: people that he works makes beer. And he goes, oh,
Speaker 2: there's a brewery near here.
Speaker 1: And he goes to the guy. He goes, oh, can
Speaker 1: I walk?
Speaker 2: They goes, oh, no, no, it's about seven or eight
Speaker 2: k anyway, obviously mixed Australia. The next morning, gets up
Speaker 2: eight in the morning, says his wife, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go for wahes.
Speaker 1: You don't go for what. He goes, No, I'm going
Speaker 1: to there's a brewery right there in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 2: He he said, I do you know, I don't think
Speaker 2: he was like he hides across farmers fields.
Speaker 1: There weren't even roads, right.
Speaker 2: He gets to the brewery at ten am, some bald
Speaker 2: Australian you know, knocking at the door of a factory,
Speaker 2: right with a four pack of I p a right,
Speaker 2: they open it. They go typical Brits. You know we're
Speaker 2: not the most friendly, They go, what do you want with?
Speaker 1: Shut? You know we're not We're not.
Speaker 2: Doing for tastings until midday. Goes, oh, I've just walked here.
Speaker 2: I've got some of this beer. I make beer.
Speaker 1: This is four day old. I pay. They open it
Speaker 1: up a bit more and go, you better come in
Speaker 1: then we'll open up a cast for you.
Speaker 2: It starts drinking beer with these strangers. But obviously there's
Speaker 2: a universal language with with beer. Isn't it the pilgrimage
Speaker 2: of the beer?
Speaker 1: What a great guy just.
Speaker 2: Trapped sinking about two hours, crossing over fields and everything
Speaker 2: like that to go on this beer pilgrimage, a beer
Speaker 2: GrimAge to go and share some beer with people. Anyway,
Speaker 2: if you're getting a beer this weekend, look out for
Speaker 2: hawkers beers, because they're doing this free of charge, and
Speaker 2: they are going the extra yard for us to get
Speaker 2: this out there as quickly as possible, doing way more
Speaker 2: than they need to do. They will be losing money
Speaker 2: by getting them hold with us, and that is not
Speaker 2: the way normally works with clients. By the way, assure
Speaker 2: the shareholders I'm running a very.
Speaker 1: Type shift for fun especial.
Speaker 3: They're not making any money. We're obviously not making a cent.
Speaker 3: And the money that's going to the Victorian bush Fire Appeal,
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be awesome. I really can't wait for this.
Speaker 1: Big We're so excited.
Speaker 2: So tomorrow has some great news, but for now, thank
Speaker 2: you very much, too cost Down for cast Down Printing
Speaker 2: for giving us five thousand coasters, and thanks to Hawkers
Speaker 2: as well.
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