A few days ago I read this post about the phrase ‘‘craft beer’’ from Luke at Ale of a Time. On Twitter he had apologised for what he called an unedited rant, […]
A tasty break from work
A sign that you might be a beer geek – you use your meal break at work to head to a bar so you can try a new beer. A sign you […]
A HopDog Christmas
I’m a big, big, big fan of Christmas. For ages I figured greed was the driving factor behind that – I loved Christmas because it was a time I got loads of […]
Discover the taste of Sarcasm
Being rostered on a week of night shift means that I get the chance to brew some beer. Finding the space to brew any other time is tricky. With a wife and […]
Old man goes on bar crawl
So I went out on a bar crawl last week. Sure, that might not sound like a big deal to you young hipsters who are out every night of the week and […]
Making a beer holiday seem dull
Teachings from the Tap Merideth Canham-Nelson Beer Trekker Press, paperback, $16 You ask me, as a full-time journo, travel stories are bloody hard to write. That’s why a guy like Bill Bryson […]
Weird things about PBR
Here’s three weird things about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Weird thing Number One: When I saw the pallets and pallets of it at my local Dan Murphy’s last week (clearly they’re expecting to […]
The Session #70 – Don’t Believe the Hype
The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community where, on the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined topic. Each month a different blog is […]
Some notes on Fat Yak
Here’s some short notes on Fat Yak, a beer from Matilda Bay that has polarised craft beers like no other from the brewer. Well, at least until they released Minimum Chips (a […]
Beer beats wine in my book
Grape vs Grain Charles Bamforth Cambridge University Press, HB, 209 pages Bamforth’s book delves into a topic dear to my heart – why, in so many way, wine has such a classy […]
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