“What does reconciliation mean to people? What does a new Australia look like in terms of relationship building? What does changing the date actually mean? Let’s sit around a fire, enjoy some Munda, and have these conversations.”

Negronis suck sometimes. Sounds controversial? It’s meant to. That’s the thing about hot takes. They’re designed to shock and enlighten, to chew up tradition and spit out something better. After all, it’s only via the seven stages of grief that one can move beyond accepted wisdom and into a place of hard truths. Truths like ‘Negronis suck sometimes’. Feeling uncomfortable? Stick around.

“Welcome to the little office we just built,” says Jack. “We’re calling it ‘Rehab’. It’s our little oasis.” Not quite the typical address one might expect for Australia’s newest beer moguls, but when it comes to the lads behind Better Beer, nothing ever really is.

The gents behind Sooshi Mango are funny. Like, really funny. I’ve only just met brothers Joe and Carlo Salanitri and best friend Andrew Manfre, but we’re already laughing like old mates. Names like mine are natural fodder for Sooshi Mango, and they waste no time pouncing upon it (their first viral skit was called Greeks vs. Italians, after all).

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