Here’s three weird things about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Weird thing Number One: When I saw the pallets and pallets of it at my local Dan Murphy’s last week (clearly they’re expecting to […]
Weird things about PBR
A poor Harvest
I have to feel sorry for Hahn. Their main – okay, only – market is the mainstream beer drinker and that has been declining in recent years. But there is a beer […]
Uncool and proud of it
Ages and ages ago I can remember going into a record store and buying Nirvana’s Nevermind album. Yes, it was back when they had things called record stores. And, in another instance of […]
Beer Olympics – Day 16
Country: Argentina Beer: Quilmes Lager The first time I tried this beer was as a result of being sucked in by Dan Murphy’s. The chain had a brochure that listed great beers […]
Beer Olympics – Day 13
Country: The Netherlands Beer: Grolsch The first time I ever had a Grolsch was way back in 1990 while I was in my third year at uni. Like most Arts students, I […]
Beer Olympics – Day 12
Country: Japan Beer: Sapporo One of the rules I set way back at the start of the Beer Olympics was that beers brewed under licence in another country still counted as coming […]
Beer Olympics – Day 10
Country: Indonesia Beer: Bintang It’s seldom a good sign if a product or business is best known as a T-shirt. Remember those Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts that were so cool in the […]
Beer Olympics – Day Seven
Country: Mexico Beer: Cave Creek Chili Beer Permit me a bit of a rant about language. These days people seem far more prone to exaggeration, making out some trifling incident was a […]
Beer Olympics – Day Five
Country: Thailand Beer: Chang Beer There is so much about this beer that puts me off even before I’ve opened it. For starters, there’s the fact that it’s called “Chang Beer”. What, do […]
The Beer Olympics – Day Three
Country: Poland Beer: Malina from Browar Namysidw Every now and then in beer fridges around the place you’ll stumble across oddities. One if the oddest beers I’ve found was one from somewhere […]
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