This morning started off the same as the day before – with truck drivers smashing bottles against the wall and no hangover to speak of. On the downside, the plans I had […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – Day Two
Friday morning was the best of times and the worst of times. Worst: I discovered that truck drivers like to park on the street outside my basement room window at 6am and […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – Day One
I flew back home on Sunday after a lightening-quick visit of Melbourne during Good Beer Week. In this instance “lightning-quick means “two-and-a-half days”, having flown in at lunchtime Thursday and out again […]
Good Beer Week – a snapshot
I wasn’t going to post anything about Good Beer Week until I got back home. For two reasons – I’d be too busy drinking beer to write about it and my fat […]
Gong Craft Beer Week – winter
These days it seems every city has it’s own beer week, so where is Wollongong’s, you may be wondering. Well it’s right here. Gong Craft Beer Week kicks off on April 29 […]
Drinking two big Brew Dogs
There are a few beers I’ve largely written off any chance of trying. One of them is that beer that’s called Westy 11 or something, because surely one of the rules about […]
Old man goes on bar crawl
So I went out on a bar crawl last week. Sure, that might not sound like a big deal to you young hipsters who are out every night of the week and […]
Beer + Food = Fun
The Illawarra Brewing Company is doing some fine, fine things for craft beer in Wollongong. Most obviously, there’s the fact that they make beer here. Then there’s the swinging taps they have […]
A Harty night out in Sydney
The goal seemed very, very simple – to drink 10 new beers while up in Sydney last Friday. That’s not 10 beers that have only just been created, but rather 10 beers […]
At the Wollongong Good Beer Dinner
Last night I was down at Wollongong’s Little Prince for the first of two beer dinners organised by Shaun and Ashur, the brewers at the Illawarra Brewing Company. The next one is […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 