When you have a kid it can be hard to fully indulge your inner beer geek. For instance, my parents live out Campelltown way and we regularly drive up for a visit. […]
Mixing up the beers
Siding with a mega brewer
I really never expected to side with the mega brewers CUB. More so, I never expected to feel sorry for them. But it do – and it’s all the fault of craft […]
What a great, great beer
Earlier this year I succumbed to a long-running temptation and signed up to the Bridge Road Brewers Posse. That’s where you can get Ben and the team to send you a case […]
Wollongong Beer Week – Day Two
I tend to steer clear of brown ales. Not for any logical reason, like I don’t like the taste or something like that. No, it’s really quite stupid. I don’t like the […]
Wollongong Beer Week – Day One
Whether in other people’s blogs or on Twitter, I always read about the great beers they get to try in their neck of the woods. For instance, I follow the blogs of a […]
A great day off
When you’re an adult male a day off tends to come with a check-list of things to do. And so it was for me on Tuesday, where with a number of hours […]
Brewers beat winemakers
A week or so ago, Little Creatures posted a notice on their website that they’d run out of Australian and New Zealand hops. For the time being, they’d have to rely largely […]
Homebrew can be so fickle
Sometimes homebrew can be a most unco-operative creature. The beer I have in the fermenter under the stairs hasn’t been doing what it’s supposed to at all. See, it’s a double IPA […]
Battle of our first brewers
When it comes to breweries named after early Australian brewers, pretty much everyone can name one of them. But, perhaps, fewer could name the other one. Or even know there is a […]
Beer shopping at Aldi
In Australia, finding beer in a supermarket is still very much a novelty. I can remember ducking into an IGA in Canberra and being amazed to find they had beers in their […]
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