Beer: An Insider's Guide - Season 1 (2004)

It's a time-honoured tradition. Men assuming their places around the barbeque and overcooking everything with a beer in hand. Enter Joanne and John Meredith - two talented young chefs spearheading the fight against beer and barbeque mediocrity.

The imagery of hands-on family companies producing regional specialty wines has always struck a chord with consumers. Wine buffs are happy to pay a premium for the best boutique wines and now that attitude has spread across the gastronomic spectrum.

Modern Australia was founded on a beer. When Captain Arthur Phillip first toasted 'success to the colony' on January 26, 1788, he raised a glass of porter to the Union Jack and drank it in celebration. More than 200 years on, beer is intrinsic to the Australian way of life.