Children of Darkness is the beer that made a big difference to the fortunes of HopDog. It was made for last year’s Great Australasian Beer Spectapular after brewer Tim Thomas got a […]
Wollongong Beer Week – Day Five
Wollongong Beer Week – Day Four
There are actually three beer-makers on the South Coast. There are the two everyone knows – Illawarra Brewing Company and HopDog BeerWorks. Then there’s the little-known Mountain Ridge Winery. Well, little-known […]
Wollongong Beer Week – Day Two
I tend to steer clear of brown ales. Not for any logical reason, like I don’t like the taste or something like that. No, it’s really quite stupid. I don’t like the […]
Friday drinks – Burleigh Brewing 28 Pale
I’ve long been of the belief that timing can be so much a part of enjoying a beer. The time of day, location and your mood can affect and even amplify your enjoyment […]
Beer moratorium over
Okay, so February being the month of no new beer purchases is officially over. I’m so weak – my resolve barely lasted two weeks. In fact it crumbled at the first sign […]
A Cosmic Australia Day
So I spent a fair whack of my Australia Day at work. From 3pm to 11pm I was working. The first half of that shift involved walking around the Oz Day celebrations […]
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 […]
A HopDog Christmas
I’m a big, big, big fan of Christmas. For ages I figured greed was the driving factor behind that – I loved Christmas because it was a time I got loads of […]
Hey, where did all the alcohol go?
Ever since an unfortunate incident with a bottle of whiskey when I was 14 I have an aversion to alcohol that tastes like alcohol. That incident saw me drink way too much […]
Problem of perspective
Late last week I was having a chat with James Smith of Crafty Pint fame about the success of breweries in the Illawarra and South Coast. He brought up something that I’d […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 