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 recap
Good Beer Week – find me here
I wasn’t going to bother with writing a post detailing my whereabouts while in Melbourne for Good Beer Week. But seeing as how everyone else is doing it I figured I should […]
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 #6
Tip #6: Drink some sugary sports drink. And eat something you dope. This tip (well, it actually covers two things so, technically, it should be ‘‘tips’’ but anyway…) was derived from something […]
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. […]
Yeastie Boys and bad reviews
This beer, called Gunnamatta, from New Zealand’s Yeastie Boys is the subject of perhaps the worst beer review I’ve read. I don’t mean “worst” as in the harshest, though it is that. […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – the wrap-up
One of the big things I learned from my trip to Melbourne is that it is possible for me to really enjoy good beer without getting a hangover so bad that it […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – Day Three
This morning started off the same as the day before – with truck drivers smashing bottles against the wall and no hangover to speak of. On the downside, the plans I had […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – Day Two
Friday morning was the best of times and the worst of times. Worst: I discovered that truck drivers like to park on the street outside my basement room window at 6am and […]
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