You can start with dessert: If you’re a little bit anal retentive like me, you’ll feel a compulsion to start your beer sampling at Container A, Section 1. And if you do […]
Ten things about … the GABS festival beers
The sweet tooth of the GABS drinker
Lets just say you’re a brewery who wanted to take out the People’s Choice Award at GABS. If you were really calculating, you could look at the previous winners and finalists […]
The GABS Top 10
In case you’re interested, here is my list of 10 beers I have to try at GABS – in alphabetical order in case someone from Two Birds gets cranky about being last […]
GABS paddle plan
This year will be the third time I’ve attended GABS. Being a bit of an overplanner, I tended to go nuts and work out all the paddles I would try. These would be […]
The man from GABS
A few weeks ago I had the chance to interview GABS co-founder Steve Jeffares about the event for a story in the paper I work for. You can read that story here […]
Good Beer Week recap
The Great Australasian Beer Spectapular – the best run festival ever. Yeah, like beer geeks around the country, I was in Melbourne for Good Beer Week. In fact, if you’d dropped a […]
Good Beer Week Guide – Tip #7
Tip #7: Forget about FOMO, MOFO. Last year during my Good Beer Week – well, last year in general, the fear of missing out on some beer or other actually concerned me. […]
Good Beer Week Guide – Tip #5
Tip #5: Don’t be so damn obsessed with Untappd – especially at GABS With lots of different beers all over the place at Melbourne, there’s plenty of chances for a unique check-in […]
Good Beer Week Guide – Tip #3
Tip #3: Plan your GABS paddles in advance Last year was my first trip to Good Beer Week and it would be understating things quite a bit to say I over-organised things. […]
GABS Brewer: Two Birds Brewing
GABS Brewer: Jayne Lewis from Two Birds Brewing in Yarraville, Victoria What beer are you making for GABS? It’s a brown ale with sesame seeds added. Does it have a name yet? […]
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