Ep 5. Crafting Beer

With their low-yield, high quality products, small regional producers are meeting the demands of a more sophisticated marketplace and beer has joined the queue - small breweries offering unique, full-flavoured, full-bodied beers. It's boom time for hand-crafted beers. We visit the key industry players - like Bootleg Brewery - who are taking wine producers head on with high quality beers. We also visit start up micro-brewers Bug Ocean to see first hand what challenges face first-time commercial brewers. While in the west, we learn the secrets behind the success of one of Australia's best pub breweries, Fremantle's Sail and Anchor.