Chat On Tap

We knew there were a few breweries on the Central Coast. We didn't realise there were this many!

We're heading north for a beer fuelled road trip, visiting four breweries in one day and discovering a craft beer scene that's well worth exploring.

Cecilia is back too, as we head to

🍺 Six String Brewing
🍺 Hawkesbury Brewing Co
🍺 Central Coast Brewing
🍺 Goons

From tropical pales and classic lagers to hazy pales, IPAs and some seriously good local drops, we get a taste of what the Central Coast has to offer.

Think you need to head to Marrickville for a great craft beer? Think again.

Tucked away in the Maker’s Dozen building at Darling Park, right in the heart of Sydney’s Darling Harbour, Batch Brewing has brought its award winning craft beer to the city.

Think of a food hall where you can grab everything from Chinese food and burgers to sandwiches, pasta and bubble tea, then pair it with a cracking craft beer from one of Batch’s 19 taps.

Chris is leading the revamp of this inner city hidden gem an...

Sydney Beer Week is about to kick off, and David sits down on the Hotel Sweeney’s rooftop with the man running it, Pete Anstey. Pete is the General Manager of Hotel Sweeney’s and Managing Director of Sydney Beer Week. He’s fresh off Oktoberfest in Munich, wearing lederhosen, and pouring fiestbiers on tap.

Pete explains how he and his partner Josh run a 10 day festival around full time jobs and young kids. They do it for the love of the industry, not to make money. They cover what’s on, why it’s built to include ev...

Weihenstephaner has been continuously brewing beer since 1040 — and David wants to know how you keep a brewery going for almost a thousand years.

In this bonus episode of Chat On Tap, David chats with Marcus, Vice President of Weihenstephaner, during his visit to Australia.

They talk about the brewery's monastery origins, the evolution of brewing, yeast, the German Purity Law, experimentation, Belgian beer collaborations and why the humble lager might be the ultimate test of a brewer.

Marcus also shares what he's enjoyed about Australia's beer scene and the Australian craft breweries he's vi...

Coopers Vintage Ale is made every year with one simple challenge: make the best beer the brewing team can make that year.

But what happens when you put five years of it side by side?

For this one I brought along an older vintage of myself… my dad. Together, we cracked open 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 and 2022 Coopers Vintage Ale for a proper vertical tasting.

Five vintages. Five different years. Five very different beers.

We taste through each vintage, compare how the beer has changed over time, and find out what happens when Vintage Ale ge...

A month without beer? For three people who spend most of their time talking about pubs and craft beer, that was always going to be a challenge.

This week I'm joined by Dwayne from Build & Brew and Disco Dave as we reflect on taking on Dry July together as part of the Frothy Moco crew.

We chat about how our relationship with beer changed over the month, the hardest moments of giving up alcohol, the surprising quality of today's non alcoholic beers, and why sometimes it's never really about...

It is Dry July this month on Chat on Tap, we're putting the drinks aside for a cause that's become one of Australia's great fundraising success stories.

Adam Spencer is one of Australia's best known broadcasters, mathematicians, authors and comedians. But for nearly two decades, he's also been one of the driving forces behind Dry July.

What started with one text message has now helped raise more than $100 million for people affected by cancer.

Adam joins us to tell the story of how Dry July almost never...

Last week, Tim Allan from The Local explained why country pubs matter.

This week, he tells the stories that prove it.

In Part 2 of our conversation, Tim takes us across Australia through some of the most memorable pubs, characters and moments he's encountered while documenting regional pub culture.

We visit Birdsville, Betoota and Marble Bar, meet legendary locals, and hear stories that range from heartwarming to completely unbelievable.

In this episode:

• Tiny outback towns that explode to thousands of visitors for race weekends
• Pubs brought back to life afte...

Can a country pub save a town?

This week on Chat On Tap, I sit down with Tim Allan, founder of The Local, a platform dedicated to telling the stories of Australia's pubs, the publicans who run them, and the communities that keep them alive.

We chat about why country pubs are so much more than somewhere to grab a beer, the challenges they're facing, and the incredible characters Tim has met while travelling Australia documenting these iconic venues.

Whether you're passionate about pubs, regional Australia, great...

After promising it way back in Episode 10, we're finally pulling up a stool at Snitch's Bar.

Long-time mate and returning guest Michael Snitch joins me for a conversation fuelled by some of the strangest spirits in his collection, including Italian amaro, Brazilian aphrodisiac liqueur, Greek kumquat liqueur and Chinese baijiu.

We also talk about the evolution of Chat On Tap, why the show is changing direction ever so slightly. The vision has always been capturing the chat over a drink, and so we get into how that is going to look, while still maintaining some...

In this TAP Classic (aka one from the archive), David Lennon catches up with legendary brewer Dr. Charles "Chuck" Hahn and his son Scott Hahn at their new brewery, Chuck & Sons, in St Peters, Sydney.

Chuck's impact on Australian beer is difficult to overstate. From Hahn Super Dry and James Squire to Kosciuszko Pale ale and countless innovations that helped shape modern brewing in Australia, his fingerprints are all over the industry.

At 79 years old, Chuck has done what most people only talk about - come out of retirement to build something new.

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Craft beer is often about the beer.

This episode isn't.

On Wildflower's final day in Marrickville, Chat On Tap headed down to one of Australia's most beloved breweries to find out what happens when a venue becomes something more than a place to grab a drink.

As hundreds of people packed the brewery and spilled out into the street, Dave handed the microphone to the people who knew Wildflower best - the locals, regulars, beer lovers, industry veterans and friends who helped turn this warehouse into a community.

From first dates...

Craft beer doesn’t just need better beer anymore - it needs better storytelling.

This week on Chat on Tap, David sits down with Stephanie Grant from She Loves Craft, a brewery social media strategist helping breweries actually connect with modern drinkers.

If you're wearing all the hats in the brewery, there's no marketing person to fall back on and fear hitting post because it might flop, this ones for you. From brewery identity and community building to Instagram strategy, regulars, content creation and why viral videos never equals customers, this episode is packed with pr...

Part two of the Hop Harvest Fest crawl sees Boyd Robson back on the Inner West Ale Trail, tackling the final five breweries of Sydney’s freshest beer festival. With higher ABVs, bigger crowds, and a few curveballs (including a sold-out festival beer), this episode dives deeper into the culture, community, and chaos of chasing fresh hop beers across Sydney.

From tiny taprooms punching above their weight to 8.4% double IPAs that test the legs, this is the full Sunday session experience—complete with locals, brewers, and a well-earned final beer at Young Henrys.