Why we sold: Stone & Wood's Ross Jurisich

Drinks Adventures - Wine, beer, whisky, gin & more with James Atkinson

English - September 12, 2021 22:46 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Last Thursday came the shock announcement that Fermentum Group, the parent company of brands including Stone & Wood Brewing Company, had been sold to Japanese-owned brewer Lion Australia.
You are likely as shocked by this as I was. You know how committed Stone & Wood seemed to their independence back when we met the founders in this 2019 documentary.
Soon after the news broke I published an opinion piece that expressed pretty clearly how I felt about their backflip, and the unfortunate knock-on effect for the independence movement:
Stone & Wood’s multinational backflip costly for indie beer
On Friday I got hold of co-founder Ross Jurisich to try and make sense of the decision.
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