‘PAY TO PLAY’: SMALL BREWERES TAKE AIM AT MULTINATIONAL ‘DUOPOLY’ LOCKING UP PUB TAPS

CLIENT: PHILTER BREWERS

OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU

Australia’s foreign-owned beer “duopoly” behind the likes of VB and Toohey’s has been accused of freezing out small local brewers from pub taps with “anti-competitive” contracts.

“In the last five years a lot more independent brewers have come in wanting to have a go at those taps, but the real estate is taken up by these brewers,” said Mick Neil, co-founder of Philter Brewing in Sydney’s Marrickville.