When you’re an adult male a day off tends to come with a check-list of things to do. And so it was for me on Tuesday, where with a number of hours […]
A great day off
An IPA? No way
It’s probably a sign of beer geekery that, even if you don’t think much of a certain brewery, that you hunt down a special release of theirs. Or maybe it’s just a […]
Going for gluten-free
Being gluten-intolerant would suck. Heaps. Like an industrial-strength bilge pump. Black holes wish they could suck as hard as being gluten-intolerant. Okay, maybe that’s way, way waaayyy too much hyperbole. Lets just […]
Brewers beat winemakers
A week or so ago, Little Creatures posted a notice on their website that they’d run out of Australian and New Zealand hops. For the time being, they’d have to rely largely […]
Homebrew economics
One of the things that appealed to me about homebrewing – and one of the things I tell others thinking about starting – is how cheap the beer is. That’s ‘‘cheap’’ as […]
Books, beer and breweries
The Oxford Companion to Beer Edited by Garrett Oliver Oxford University Press The Breweries of Australia Keith M Deutsher Beer & Brewer Media I’ve chosen to review these two books together because […]
Friday drinks – the Illawarra Brewing Company
I’ve got this friend called Marco. He likes to try a new beer every now and then, but he’s not entirely sure which ones to try. He knows I write a beer […]
Banning beer in Australia
Prohibition – the banning of liquor in the United States – is rather well-known here in Australia. Less well-known – at least to me, anyway – was the fact that Australia wasn’t […]
Beer moratorium over
Okay, so February being the month of no new beer purchases is officially over. I’m so weak – my resolve barely lasted two weeks. In fact it crumbled at the first sign […]
Drinking two big Brew Dogs
There are a few beers I’ve largely written off any chance of trying. One of them is that beer that’s called Westy 11 or something, because surely one of the rules about […]
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