Like most beer fiends I’ve got a mental list of the beery events I’d like to get to. Most of them are in the territory best-known as ‘‘pipe dream’’. I’m talking about […]
GABS, here I come
Steamrail, Byron Bay and taking ownership
A few days ago I wrote a piece relating to the brouhaha surrounding the Steamrail beers made for (by?) Coles. Coles’ name is rather conspicuously absent from the labels. That doesn’t bother […]
But have you tried them yet?
There’s been a lot of talk lately – both in beer blogs and on Twitter – about the Steamrail range of beers just released by Coles. All of it negative. But there […]
Getting closer to the ton
About a year and a half ago, I started getting serious about good beer. One thing I did was buy a book listing the top 100 beers as chosen by a bunch […]
A Cosmic Australia Day
So I spent a fair whack of my Australia Day at work. From 3pm to 11pm I was working. The first half of that shift involved walking around the Oz Day celebrations […]
A saison for the season
Last week a bunch of us went on another pub crawl. You can go here to see what happened last time around. This time we hit all the same places – just […]
I give a damn about Scarlet
A few weeks ago, I singled out Temple Brewing in Melbourne as one of the best breweries in the country. They liked what I wrote so much that, a few days later, […]
What does a Convict taste like?
For quite a while the Gage Roads brewery in Western Australia has confused me. On the one hand, they’re responsible for some rather ordinary mainstream beers like Wahoo and their ‘‘Gage Premium […]
Three of the best breweries in Australia
When it comes to a brewery’s output, it’s pretty safe bet that you won’t like it all. Maybe they do an ordinary lager, maybe they do a bland pilsner or an IPA […]
The Thursday quote
“The marketing geniuses at the world’s industrial breweries haven’t a clue as to what kind of beer you like. Even if they did, the bets they could do would be to dump […]
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