There are some beers you can ruin for yourself if you have them too early in your beer journey. These are beers that you have to serve an apprenticeship for before drinking […]
The amazing apple beer
Finally, a can of Dr Tim’s
Dr Tim’s Traditional Ale is a bit of an oddity in the Coopers’ oeuvre. For starters, it’s only available in cans. And as far as I know, it’s the only Coopers product […]
The NT Draught Hunt
Really, you’d think finding some NT Draught on tap in the Northern Territory would be pretty damned easy. But, after spending six days travelling long distances across the territory seeing the […]
Beers I Used To Drink – Day Four
Technically speaking this really isn’t a beer I used to drink. It’s a beer I still drink – sometimes. Those times are limited to occasions when I’m at a bar and the […]
Beers I Used to Drink – Day Three
As hard as it might be to believe, in the early 1990s there was a beer with the word ‘‘Foster’s’’ on the label that sold pretty well here in Australia. And it […]
Beers I Used to Drink – Day Two
Spotting a can of Tooheys Blue on the shelves at my local Dan Murphy’s was quite a surprise. I didn’t think they even made this beer any more, thought it went the […]
Beers I Used to Drink – Day One
The first beer I drank when I was of legal age was a Tooheys New. I’d drunk beer under-age but I don’t recall what they were. Knowing very little about the different […]
Stone & Wood’s best beer yet
You ready for a big call? No, make that a HUGE call. Stone & Wood’s new limited release beer Cloud Catcher is the best beer they’ve ever made. Yes, that includes Pacific […]
Crown Golden Ale – pass or fail?
The news that CUB was extending the Crown stable to include a golden ale had some beer geeks cranky. The perception was that Crown was trying to sneak its way in the […]
Had enough of Duff
Here’s a slogan for Duff Beer you won’t see used – ‘‘Duff Beer – so bad you’ll have to drink it twice’’. And yet that’s exactly what I had to do. See, […]
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