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Australia | The Kirin-owned brewer Lion is set to close the Malt Shovel Brewery in August, bringing nearly four decades of brewing history on the site in Camperdown, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, to a close. Production will be shifted to other Lion-owned breweries.
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India | Exasperated with India’s byzantine regulations and bureaucracies, United Breweries (controlled by Heineken), AB-InBev and Carlsberg, who between them account for about 85 percent of the country’s beer sales, established the Brewers Association of India, media reported on 31 May.
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Australia | With the craft beer craze fading, Asahi has ventured into spirits and acquired the super-premium distillery Never Never from South Australia, best known for its award-winning gin brands.
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Australia | If you have ever been to Australia and sampled a Hahn, James Squire, Kosciuszko, Malt Shovel or Lord Howe Island-branded beer, you have drunk a beer designed by Dr Charles “Chuck” Hahn, an American brewer from Golden, Colorado, who arrived in Australia in 1981.
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Australia | China lifted anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on Australian wine from 29 March, ending three years of punitive levies and offering long-awaited relief to Australian wine producers.
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South Korea | Japan reclaimed the top spot in South Korea’s beer imports in 2023, five years after the start of the Tokyo-Seoul trade dispute, local media reported in January.
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India | Consumers in India could enjoy a 7.5 percent reduction in spirits prices should the region’s 150 percent tariff laws be halved, Diageo said on 30 January upon releasing its first half 2024 figures.
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Australia | A skyrocketing excise tax, debt from the pandemic period, increased production costs, and depressed consumer demand have created a perfect storm for the country’s 600 or so independent craft brewers.
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South Korea | GoldenBlue, a whiskey maker and distributor of imported liquors, said it has disposed of its remaining inventory of Carlsberg beer, in the aftermath of a so-called gapjil (abuse of power) with its Danish partner. The discarded beer is said to be worth nearly USD 380,000.
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South Korea | Diageo, the world’s leading drinks company, must be running out of unique marketing ideas. Like SABMiller before, it is going for pop-up venues to push its brands into select markets.
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