Emerging pub baron Glenn Piper has snapped up the Bermagui Beach Hotel in New South Wales for around $20 million in an off-market deal, adding to a $200 million hospitality portfolio that has expanded to nine coastal venues.

Dubbed “the next Justin Hemmes”, the rising hospitality star’s Epochal Hotels acquired the pub and accompanying 18-room hotel and motel in NSW’s Sapphire Coast from Yannis Gantner, who ran the venue for eight years before its sale.