Every month or so I head down to the local newsagent to pick up the latest copy of All About Beer magazine. And then proceed to torture myself. You see, within its […]
Beers I can’t have
Monteith’s misses the point
I’m thinking that Monteith’s just doesn’t get it. Biggish brewers like Gage Road get it and even the Woolworths Brewery (aka Sail & Anchor) gets it. But Monteith’s? Nope. What don’t they […]
Extra Vintage is extra great
When you’re a beer reviewer you get some pretty cool stuff in the mail. Beer, obviously, but I sometimes get other handy bits and bobs. Like bottle openers and nifty glassware (the […]
The mysterious Mr Obadiah
If you’re at all like me, you might have thought Little Creatures simply made up the name of their latest Single Batch. Called Mr Obadiah, I figured that wasn’t a real person […]
Time for a First Harvest
The passing of time is a real bastard. When I was in my 20s I could eat whatever I wanted, exercise not at all and see the needle stop at exactly the […]
Drinking with The Posse
After about a year of umming and ahhing, I finally signed up to the Bridge Road Brewers Posse earlier this year. The Posse is basically a wine club, but with beer replacing […]
Unique Week – Day One
This here is an Untappd-inspired week at Beer Is Your Friend, because it’s Unique Week. That’s where I’m writing about seven beers that will be unique check-ins on Untappd – and they’re […]
A pair of Singles
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 […]
Good beer people and banana smoothies
Beer people are good people. Just take the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular Q&As I started running this week. I contacted a lot of breweries via email and asked them if they wanted […]
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 […]
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