1) I was reasonably excited to hear XXXX was releasing a pale ale. And I felt the same about Tooheys Darling Pale Ale too. Unlike some geeks, who wiped both beers before […]
Five things about …XXXX Gold Australian Pale Ale
Five things about … Matilda Bay’s Lazy Yak
1) Lazy Yak is the first effort from the guys at CUB to spin off the Fat Yak beer into its own range. Despite my initial misgivings, it makes sense – […]
Five Things About … Moon Dog’s imperial Redskin stout
1) The actual name for this beer is Ogden Nash’s Pash Rash. I get the “pash rash” joke – the beer features Redskins, and pash rash gives you red skin. Geddit? But […]
Five things about …Gage Roads Single Fin
1) Yes, Single Fin is a summer ale and, as it’s winter right now, we’re technically as far as we can get from summer. I’d meant to write about this beer for […]
Five things about … Darling Pale Ale
1) The new Darling Pale Ale from Tooheys has received a fair of mocking from the beer community, most notably for the ‘‘non-challenging flavour’’ in the press release. I have no dramas […]
Five things about … Rodenbach
1) You know how, when you keep hearing about a beer on social media but you can’t find it, you begin to develop a quiet obsession about it? Well, that was me […]
Five things about … Stone’s Go To IPA
1) I’m not even supposed to be drinking this beer. Last year I wrote several blog posts about Stone’s dubious crowdfunding effort. After that I decided to myself that I’d boycott their […]
Five things about … Illawarra Brewing Company’s Single Hop Sorachi Ace ale
1) The beer in question is part of a trio of single-hop golden ales – Japan, Australia and the United States. Because of those three countries, the collection is called Battle of […]
Five things about …. Bacchus Brewing’s Sex, Drugs and Rocky Road
1) It was made for GABS in 2014 and is an imperialised version of a beer called Yummy Mummy Rocky Road. And I’m glad brewer Ross Kenrick changed the name because ‘‘Yummy […]
Five things about … Stone & Wood’s Stone Beer
1) In case you weren’t aware, this beer is a tribute to the old-fashioned way of brewing. See, with boil kettles made from wood, putting them over an open flame to get […]
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