LION SNAP UP UK CRAFT STAR
Lion has expanded on successes in Australia with the outright purchase of leading London craft brewer Fourpure. The craft beer market in the UK is one of the largest and fastest-growing in the world, currently representing around five per cent
REDCAPE BUY INTO BREWING WITH COLOSIMO’S ROUSE HILL FLAGSHIP
Redcape has announced its acquisition of the Colosimos’ Australian Hotel and Brewery for around $50 million, heralding the group’s plans to invest in the “craft and localised beer market”. Marcello Colosimo and family opened the large-format Australian Hotel and Brewery
SAND HILL RD UNVEIL PLANS FOR THE ESPY
Sand Hill Road has announced its pending revival of the iconic Hotel Esplanade – The Espy – eyeing a “new cultural destination” for Melbourne and magnificent sunsets over Port Phillip Bay. Melbourne-based pub group Sand Hill Road (SHR) ‘secured’ the
CAXTON ID SCANNER WIN FOR ORIGIN III
Brisbane’s famous Caxton Hotel has won a victory in common sense over the use of ID scanners on the night of State of Origin III. The Caxton is merely a short block from Suncorp Stadium, where the Maroons will fight
KINSELAS BREAK-IN LEAVES BANDIT SORE AND SORRY
Sydney’s Kinselas was victim to a criminal mastermind, orchestrating a cunning entry into the Darlinghurst pub and making off with a bag of convenient booty. NSW Police report CCTV footage (below) caught a man around 4am yesterday (10 July) using
BAM OFFLOADS BIG GAMER VAUXHALL INN TO REDCAPE
Redcape has let loose the chequebook again, acquiring Bondi Asset Management’s Vauxhall Inn for around $40 million. Bondi Asset Management (BAM) was formed in 2015, counting Sydney hotelier Andrew Lazarus and former Citibank director Stuart King as stakeholders. BAM kicked
SWEET PROSPECTS FOR KALAMIA HOTEL SALE
The booming Kalamia Hotel has come to market, in the hearts of 1,000 local backpackers working year-round in the precinct. Ayr is around 90 kilometres south of Townsville, and known as the sugarcane capital of Australia. The Kalamia Hotel occupies
MAN CHARGED OVER GLASSING AT GOLD COAST PUB
A young man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after reportedly assaulting another man with a glass in a Gold Coast hotel over the weekend. Police report that around 1am on Saturday (7 July) at the Coolangatta Hotel, a
UNCONSCIOUS FEMALE PATRONS DUMPED ON STREET
A Sydney restaurant has received a Strike and fine and may face further repercussions for dumping two unconscious and highly intoxicated female patrons on the street. A police report presented to the Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) stated that
ABBOTT’S GETS DIRT OVER HIPSTER BAN
Everyman’s publican, Bill Smith, is again riding the publicity wave with an announcement that Abbott’s Hotel Waterloo has put hipsters on notice, banning man-buns and handlebar moustaches. Lurking just south of the CBD and increasingly gentrified Redfern, Waterloo is still
