There are some places in my home town of Wollongong where I just don’t expect to find good beer. Places where the local BWS opts not to stock poofter beer like Stone […]
Good beer finds a home in Warilla
It’s YouTubesday!
Lachlan from the Albion Hotel – and the guy behind Grainfed Brewing – gives us a quick tutorial on handpumped beer. With the help of two beers from the Illawarra Brewing Company.
Dagwood gets better
Dagwood 19 Market Street, Wollongong For a long while, I’ve written off Dagwood as a place to avoid if it’s good beer you’re after. In fact, on one of the occasional […]
A home-town beer festival
One of the worst things about being a beer geek in Wollongong is that all the beer festivals happen somewhere else. Sydney. Melbourne. Other places in Australia that aren’t Wollongong. Even New […]
Wollongong’s busy brewers
If I didn’t know better I’d think the guys at The Illawarra Brewing Company gave up brewing beer for FebFast. Obviously they didn’t, but their output this month could look like they […]
Devil Dodger and drinking the label
Taste can be a funny thing. When Sail & Anchor’s Devil Dodger IPA first came out I raced to Uncle Dan’s to buy some. Partially because it was a new beer and […]
Wollongong Beer Alert!
So there I was at Thirroul Cellars, looking to see if there was anything new in the fridges. Not so much in the six-pack fridges – except for Rocks Brewing Co’s The […]
Wollongong Beer Alert!
The somewhat lacklustre photo you see is of the tag attached to a growler of the Illawarra Brewing Company’s latest beer – Hawaiian Cookie Golden Ale. At least I think it’s the […]
Struggling with summer
Try as I might – and I have tried – I can’t help but feel disappointed about Mountain Goat’s Summer Ale. That came as a bit of a surprise because I was […]
Wollongong Beer Alert!
Finally my near-obsession with beer hunting in mainstream bottle shops has paid off. For the last two years, any time I passed by a mainstream bottlo like Liquorland, BWS, Mac’s Liquor and […]
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