There’s a very good reason why I’m reviewing The Quiet American – an old Little Creatures Single Batch release – alongside the latest one. That’s because the brewers at LC kept the […]
A pair of Singles
Wollongong Beer Week – Day One
Whether in other people’s blogs or on Twitter, I always read about the great beers they get to try in their neck of the woods. For instance, I follow the blogs of a […]
A homebrew moment
My latest batch of homebrew may well be a watershed moment in my journey as a homebrewer. Yes, I know that opening sentence sounded a bit pretentious but it does make sense. […]
Friday drinks – Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA
This is not an IPA – it’s an ‘‘extra IPA’’, according to the label. I’m not really sure what that means – do you get more IPA for your money? Is it […]
A great day off
When you’re an adult male a day off tends to come with a check-list of things to do. And so it was for me on Tuesday, where with a number of hours […]
An IPA? No way
It’s probably a sign of beer geekery that, even if you don’t think much of a certain brewery, that you hunt down a special release of theirs. Or maybe it’s just a […]
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 […]
Racing out for Racer 5
I don’t really need to keep buying beer. But I do. Like just recently for example, I headed to Thirroul Village Cellars, to see what they had. They’ve steadily been getting a […]
The Session #72: How we love beer
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 […]
Double IPA is the bomb
One of the many niches in the world of beer is the stupidly-hopped beer. That’s where the brewer decides that the best thing to do is ladle in so many hops that […]
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