A couple of years ago, before I wrote three books on beer history, I ran a week-long series called History in a Bottle. For some reason, this piece here never […]
History in a Bottle – the Crime of Thomas Austin
History in a Bottle – The Great Emu War
This can of Emu Bitter includes the phrase “Beer for Western Australia” across the top. Which is a little bit funny because it’s actually brewed in South Australia. Ha! The Emu range […]
History in a Bottle #7 – A Platypus named Winston
Not too long ago beer geeks went a bit nuts for the Winston Pale Ale from Shenanigans Brewing Company in Sydney’s inner west. I was expecting big things from this beer because, […]
History in a Bottle #6 – the Melbourne Exhibition Building
Ever since it debuted at the 2012 Great Australasian Beer Spectapular, Feral’s Watermelon Warhead was one of my white whale beers. A Berliner weisse made to resemble those super-sour Warhead lollies, I […]
History in a Bottle #5 – Random Breath Testing
As light beers go this one from Coopers isn’t too bad. At 2.9 per cent it’s still got enough malt in there to give it some body, though some more hops wouldn’t […]
History in a Bottle #4 – Who the hell is Kosciuszko?
Kosciuszko Pale Ale comes from a 600-litre microbrewery started up by Chuck Hahn in 2009. It’s in the Banjo Patternson Inn at Jindabyne. Though, to be honest, I’m pretty certain all the […]
History in a Bottle #3 – Australia’s first hanging
The Hangman pale comes from The Rocks Brewing Company, who also owns Harts Pub in Sydney’s Rocks. The pub is located on what, in the early years of settlement, was referred to […]
History in a Bottle #2 – The Battle of Central Station
The name Angry Man used to be what Murray’s called their Brown Ale. But for some reason they switched it to their pale. Which is okay with me – I think it’s […]
History in a Bottle #1 – The Foundational Orgy
Welcome to the start of the week I like to call History in a Bottle. The aim here is to talk about Australian beer and history. Not the boring history, the […]
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