“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 […]
Sick of the shouting
The shout is very much a tradition when it comes to drinking beer in Australia. Any time there’s two or more people grouped together drinking beer, you can be sure there’s some […]
Where are the longnecks?
Yesterday’s post about James Squire’s pint-sized bottles got me thinking, why do so few craft breweries put their beer into longnecks? Aside from the granddad of the craft brewing biz in Australia […]
Size does matter – a bit
I’m always going to have a soft spot for James Squire, even though I hardly drink the stuff any more. I hardly drink it these days for the same reason I have […]
Books and beer
This photo is of the beer section of my “to read” book shelves. As it contains 11 books (not including the book Bad Science, which has snuck in there due to lack […]
The Session #75: The Business of Brewing
The Session (aka Beer Blogging Friday) is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single […]
NAB and craft beer
There was a bit of a talk on Twitter last night about a new NAB ad that features three sisters who decided to open a brewery. I’d not heard talk about it […]
Homebrew economics
One of the things that appealed to me about homebrewing – and one of the things I tell others thinking about starting – is how cheap the beer is. That’s ‘‘cheap’’ as […]
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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