{"podcast":{"title":"The Crafty Pint Podcast","slug":"the-crafty-pint-podcast-6968224","podcast_index_feed_id":6968224,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/jOaSFYh1.rss","website_url":"https://zencastr.com/The-Crafty-Pint-Podcast","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/63f467f97c4fbbc9318cd276/e912d03a-2b93-41ab-92bf-3855f1051da5.jpg","author":"james@craftypint.com","episode_count":115,"summary":"The Crafty Pint is the home of craft beer in Australia. The online magazine and resource has been crafting beer's best stories since 2010 and, in July 2024, launched The Crafty Pint Podcast. Hosted by the editorial team behind Australia's leading craft beer media publication, the show features curated discussion of industry news, as well as an ever-changing lineup of guests sharing perspectives from all corners of the craft beer world. Subscribe now and delve into the fascinating stories shaping beer.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T06:19:35.183957+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crafty-pint-podcast-6968224"},"episode":{"title":"From Zero To Hero: The Rise Of Non-Alc Beer","slug":"from-hero-to-zero-the-rise-of-non-alc-beer","published_at":"2026-06-24T14:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crafty-pint-podcast-6968224/from-hero-to-zero-the-rise-of-non-alc-beer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crafty-pint-podcast-6968224","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/KgXVfiLR","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a3ba3b26b8f561b6b72b1ce/size/95583789/audio-files/63f467f97c4fbbc9318cd276/370dfdba-e4f0-4953-9a28-37d9370c7e66.mp3","summary":"\"I don't see any ceiling for non-alc beer.\" It's fair to say there were plenty of skeptics when non-alcoholic beer first started to appear in earnest in the local beer scene. Yet, in the half-decade-plus since we ran a blind tasting featuring early entrants to the market, the sector has grown and grown. While some brands have come and gone, there's a growing number of established brands and many other breweries for whom their non-alc range forms a significant part of their sales. What's more, Bridge Road Brewers and, more recently, Heaps Normal have started putting non-alc beer on tap [https://craftypint.com/news/3981/tapping-into-non-alcs]. To assess where the market sits, where it could be heading, and why it's come so far already, we pulled together a panel from different facets of the beer world. Molly Rose [https://craftypint.com/brewery/457/molly-rose-brewing] founder Nic Sandery is the brewer behind both Molly Rose and Hiatus non-alcs, Sam Bethune is a former brewer who's now a technical sales specialist at Bintani [https://craftypint.com/business/581/bintani-australia], and former Fixation main man Tom Delmont brings a sales and brand perspective from his role at Hop Nation [https://craftypint.com/brewery/285/hop-nation], who produce a broad range of alcohol-free beers. We look at advances in technology, processes and ingredients, the dos and don'ts of non-alc brewing, take lessons from overseas, and attempt a spot of crystal ball-gazing. This week's opening is a global affair with James recently landed in London amid a European heatwave that looks a lot like Australia in January – albeit without aircon... We discuss two venue openings in the Yarra Valley [https://craftypint.com/news/4111/the-beer-slingers-woori-yallock-tap-house] and the Sunshine Coast [https:…","meta_description":"\"I don't see any ceiling for non-alc beer.\" It's fair to say there were plenty of skeptics when non-alcoholic beer first started to appear in earnest in t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3982,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-crafty-pint-podcast-6968224/episodes/from-hero-to-zero-the-rise-of-non-alc-beer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crafty-pint-podcast-6968224/from-hero-to-zero-the-rise-of-non-alc-beer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}