Bitter Brew William Knoedelseder This book is about the rather messed-up family behind Anheuser-Busch – the makers of Budweiser. And it’s a pretty good read (aside from the odd error, such as […]
A saison for the season
Last week a bunch of us went on another pub crawl. You can go here to see what happened last time around. This time we hit all the same places – just […]
I was made for loathing you, baby
The new KISS beer called Destroyer really surprised me. I’ve long known than KISS is the sort of band renowned for, shall we say, very intensive marketing. They’ve never been shy about […]
I give a damn about Scarlet
A few weeks ago, I singled out Temple Brewing in Melbourne as one of the best breweries in the country. They liked what I wrote so much that, a few days later, […]
Cheating with Untappd check-ins?
I’m not hundred per cent sure whether I’ve been cheating a tad with my Untappd beer check-ins. See, over the Christmas break my unique check-ins experienced a bit of a spike. They […]
Beer and bubbles
About two weekends ago my wife took me to Bowral for my birthday. While we were there, we stopped in at the Imperial Hotel for a beer. I’d seen photos of the […]
Breaking up six-packs – right or wrong?
Last Thursday night threw up another instance of a real issue I have about buying beer – whether or not to break open a six-pack. I was in Dan Murphys looking to […]
PBR and that 1893 honour
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer Maureen Ogle Harcourt In an earlier post, I wrote about the oddness of Pabst Blue Ribbon including this blurb on their cans – ‘‘Selected as […]
Double IPA is the bomb
One of the many niches in the world of beer is the stupidly-hopped beer. That’s where the brewer decides that the best thing to do is ladle in so many hops that […]
What does a Convict taste like?
For quite a while the Gage Roads brewery in Western Australia has confused me. On the one hand, they’re responsible for some rather ordinary mainstream beers like Wahoo and their ‘‘Gage Premium […]
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