When you think about it, the Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale is a bit environmentally unsound. See what they do is get freshly picked hops from New Zealand rushed over lickety-split […]
Drinking Dan’s Dry
Snake beer screw-up
The image you see here is what about 800g of lolly snakes look like after they’ve been sitting in a fermenter full of beer for about two weeks. Pretty gross, huh? The […]
Drinking Dan’s Dry and Wollongong Beer Alert!
Because I’m a little bit obsessed, I regularly scroll the the craft beer list on the Dan Murphy’s website, to see if there’s anything new. About a month ago I was very […]
The Thursday quote
“Here is that number, as this magazine goes to press: 1,528. That’s how many breweries were in the planning stages in the United States at the start of May, according to the […]
Drinking Dan’s Dry
Okay, so it didn’t take too long to discover a hiccup in my Drinking Dan’s Dry* quest. That came in the form of the Grand Ridge gift pack. There are a few […]
It’s YouTubesday!
In 2007, the LifeStyle Channel ran a series on the King George IV hotel in Picton. Called The Pub With One Beer, it told the story of two 22-year-olds who bought the […]
Tap King a real innovation
Never underestimate the power of Twitter. A little while ago I’d banged on in a few tweets about how I wished Lion would hurry up and send me one of their new-fangled […]
Dubbel not worth the trouble
When it comes to Sierra Nevada beers, this is easily the most unusual- looking. Firstly, it comes under cork and features labelling to make it look way older than it really is. […]
Look! It’s another lager!
Shhh, listen carefully. Can you hear it? The cries of beer drinkers wishing that one of the big breweries would come out with yet another lager. What? You can’t hear them? Yep, […]
Independence Day
It’s the Fourth of July today so it made sense to write about an American beer. A look through the beers in the garage revealed the only one I had from the […]
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