There’s no doubt about it – the punters at GABS love their dessert beers. After last year’s festival I published this breakdown of the previous People’s Choice winners – with top 10s […]
Sweet success for sweet beers at GABS
The sweet tooth of the GABS drinker
Lets just say you’re a brewery who wanted to take out the People’s Choice Award at GABS. If you were really calculating, you could look at the previous winners and finalists […]
The GABS Top 10 – a review
About two weeks ago I posted my top 10 must-try list for the festival beers at GABS. Earlier this week I had someone asking me if I was going to give feedback […]
AIBA Collaboration Beer – 2015
MEDIA RELEASE – AIBA Collaboration Beer 2015 The unique and highly-anticipated Collaboration Beer has become a highlight of the Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA), conducted by The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria […]
No time for tiny samples
There comes a time in a beer geek’s life where they must say ‘‘to hell with the tasting samples’’. For me, that time comes this weekend. Well, actually it kind of came […]
The myth of “drink less, drink quality”
Luke over at Ale of a Time wrote this great post yesterday about craft beer and binge drinking that touched on a few things I’d been thinking about for a while but hadn’t […]
A home-town beer festival
One of the worst things about being a beer geek in Wollongong is that all the beer festivals happen somewhere else. Sydney. Melbourne. Other places in Australia that aren’t Wollongong. Even New […]
Beer festivals and destiny
It must have been destiny that saw me attending the Canberra Small Brewers Festival last Saturday. And no, I don’t think I’m overstating things by using the word ‘‘destiny’’. See, my wife […]
As great as I remember
The Australian craft beer community went a bit nuts recently when a few cartons of Southern Tier’s Creme Brûlée stout made it to our shores. I’d heard that the stocks ordered by […]
Inspired by a classic
Ahhh, Escape From New York. I loved this film as a kid – and looking at this preview, I think I need to watch it again. It may have been wrong on […]
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