Author name: Clyde Mooney

NINTH YEAR IN FESTIVAL STATE SHOWS PUBLIC THIRST FOR CRAFT

Back for its ninth big year – South Australia’s Beer & Cider Festival at the Arkaba Hotel continues to pioneer, in the home State of fine beverages. Originally started by a somewhat precocious marketing manager, as a spin-off of the long popular celebration of beer – Oktoberfest, the Arkaba Festival was originally held each October. […]

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NATIONAL HOTEL COURT RULING OPENS DOOR AUSTRALIA-WIDE

<TEXT> A hotel in Western Australia has won a landmark Supreme Court battle that could bring a new level of accountability to liquor regulators around the country. Karl Bullers purchased the National Hotel in Fremantle as a ‘vision project’ and invested several million dollars restoring the vacant, fire-damaged heritage building, to cater to “upmarket, mature

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EDITOR’S RANT: SERVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE – PROBLEM OR OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD?

This week a South Australian court heard how the manager of a Kangaroo Island pub that has pleaded guilty to over-serving a man – who died shortly after, driving DUI – may have himself consumed two bottles of wine during the shift. There is, of course, a long and celebrated tradition of operators drinking with

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