About a year and a half ago, I started getting serious about good beer. One thing I did was buy a book listing the top 100 beers as chosen by a bunch […]
Getting closer to the ton
A saison for the season
Last week a bunch of us went on another pub crawl. You can go here to see what happened last time around. This time we hit all the same places – just […]
The Session #71 – Brewers and Drinkers
The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community where, on the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined topic. Each month a different blog […]
A tasty break from work
A sign that you might be a beer geek – you use your meal break at work to head to a bar so you can try a new beer. A sign you […]
Discover the taste of Sarcasm
Being rostered on a week of night shift means that I get the chance to brew some beer. Finding the space to brew any other time is tricky. With a wife and […]
Beer and browsing
I just ducked out to a bottle shop near work that is known to stock the odd beer from HopDog in Nowra. I was specifically after brewer Tim Thomas’ White Christmas. I […]
Messing with a pair of melons
So, with summer here, I had this idea that I wanted to brew a watermelon wheat beer. I like watermelon, find it quite refreshing and, though I’ve never had it in a […]
The best beer in the world
People are always asking me what my favourite beer is. No wait, that’s actually not true at all. I’ve never, ever, not once, been asked what beer I like. I’m not upset […]
Worshipping at the Temple
Sometimes I can come up with pretty dumb reasons not to try a beer. For the longest time I’d put off trying anything from Temple Brewing. Why? Because I saw their labels […]
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 