The first time I tried Nomad Brewing Co’s Long Reach Saison, I was on what I thought was a date at the Champagne Room upstairs from one of my favourite bars in Sydney, The Winery in Surry Hills. That minute the magic touched my lips (the beer), my internal monologue was like… “What IS this magnificence?”

Flash forward 4 weeks and I find myself at a craft beer launch in Surry Hills (Sydney) engaged in earnest conversation with co-founder and managing director of Nomad Brewing Co, Kerrie Abba, bonding over time we’ve both spent time living in the northern Italian region of Piemonte at the base of the Alps (where FIAT’s founded, the 2006 Winter Olympics were held and the home of Ferraro chocolate).

 

The very next Friday afternoon I’m sitting here in the ‘Transit Lounge’, Nomad’s tasting bar at the brewery, sipping on Nomad's Freshie Salt & Pepper Gose and reminiscing with Kerrie about the joy of Italian culture and love of life that we were both fortunate enough to experience by living in Italia and the impact it’s made on our respective lives.

 

The owners of Australia’s largest craft beer distributors, Experience IT beverages, Kerrie and Johnny persuaded Brooks Carretta, Leonardo’s brewing protege at Birra Del Borgo, to join them in Australia to set-up the Nomad business and come on board as their head brewer. With all their brew kit all imported from Italy and determined to brew using native Australian ingredients, Nomad Brewing have created an array of amazing beers designed to delight all palates.

 

We enjoy vast ranging chats about the Barolo wine region (King of wines, wine of kings), the fascinating story behind the creation of Freshie Salt & Pepper Gose, Nomad Brewing's 'So Caliente' collaboration with Steve Wagner from Stone Brewing, her various and varied businesses and what inspired Kerrie to jet half-way across the world to live in a small town in Italy.

 

Super, super, SUPER podcast for you ears & I can’t wait to catch-up with Kerrie again.

 

 

Fascinating podcast with Poppy Renegade co-founder, Hatching Lab CEO & tech entrepreneur, Christie Whitehill.

 

Christie and I met a few months back through theright.fit tech entrepreneur, Taryn Williams, after Taryn joined us as our guest on the Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast. On today’s show we chat about #StandTall and the creation of Poppy Renegade, a community of women (and men) built to inspire, empower and celebrate each other, Christie’s impending motherhood and shifting the way in which she approaches her career as a highly intelligent, independent & successful businesswoman, Hatching Lab - an App Development & Innovation Lab for Startups and Enterprises, raising capital for start-ups and little pieces of advice she’d give those keen to make a start in the tech world.

 

 

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Set in Sydney’s Giant Dwarf Theatre, Andrew & I enjoy vast ranging chats, bond over our grandfathers who were in World War II, his grandfather actually landing into Hiroshima the day after the bomb dropped to demand the surrender of a local general, The Chaser’s War On Everything’s hilarious APEC stunt with George W Bush and “Osama Bin Laden” (in fact Chas Licciardello dressed up as Osama), Andrew Denton, Giant Dwarf and so much more.

 

Sitting here in Little Jack Horner cafe in Coogee Beach writing this article and editing the podcast as we speak, wearing a massive smile on my face. Such an amazing chat!  😃

 

 

Giant Dwarf Theatre:

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In today’s Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! podcast, we chat about Little Sea’s beginnings in the western suburbs of Sydney, where Oliver (guitarist) and Leighton (drummer) grew up and first met, using the Twitter platform to connect with and build a large scale audience of peers, friends and fans across the globe, jetting to California to record their first EP just a few days after signing a new record deal, plans to relocate to Los Angeles and what makes them tick and drives their hunger for success.

 

Wicked hangs over a few Coopers Pale Ale beers with the Little Sea lads, who have a collective Twitter presence of over 200,000 and hit the #1 trending topic on Twitter last month in more than 10 counties around the world, when they they launched new single “Cut It Out” last month and this world first live Twitter performance. 

 

#LittleSeaVirtual

 

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