GABS Hottest 100 Live Countdown
b'Welcome to a special podcast from the Australian Brews News team.\\n \\n Thanks to Bintani, \\xa0we ran a live broadcast of the last two hours of the GABS Hottest 100 craft beers of 2017. We broadcast live from Balter, who ended up being named #1 in the poll.\\n We chose Balter early in the voting process, well before the results were known, which turned out well for the show. While we managed to keep the show pretty on track despite a number of planned and unplanned guests dropping by the studio, good order was lost a little towards the end once the winner had been announced. We were very surprised to have Mick Fanning and then Joel Parkinson drop by to join us, Joel having raced in having left a wedding to celebrate with the team at Balter.\\n Despite a few occasional rough edges, the podcast does capture the excitement of the countdown, the surprise as the results were announced and also how important the GABS Hottest 100 has come to be to the Australian beer industry. \\xa0Don\\u2019t let any brewer try and tell you that they don\\u2019t care about the results.\\n We would like to thank Balter for their generosity in making the boardroom available, and for the time they gave us especially as it became clear that we were in for an exciting finish. \\xa0We\\u2019d also like to thank our co-hosts Kerry Claydon and Steve \\u2018Hendo\\u2019 Henderson for joining us for the broadcast.\\n Thanks also to our guests:\\n Balter\\u2019s Scott Hargrave, who - as you will hear - was so generous with his time we had to shoo out the door so he could actually celebrate the result rather than be stuck in the studio\\n Stone & Wood\\u2019s Jamie Cook who happened to be on the coast and made the effort to join us in the studio and happened to be there as the final results were announced.\\n Pirate Life\\u2019s Michael Cameron who joined us from a very hot carpark in South Australia\\n Feral\\u2019s Brendan Varis who called in from WA\\n Dave Padden who accepted our call while he was pulled over on a highway.\\n And also to Steve Jeffares, one of the founder of the Hottest 100 and the GABS Festival and Phil Meddings from Bintani, both of whom had their interviews put on hold as we were happily gatecrashed by a couple of excited world champion surfers.\\n Finally, thank you to Bintani - who will bring the right ingredients to your brewery, just as they do with Balter - for sponsoring the show. We genuinely could not have done it without them.'