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Oops, I did it again

By beerisyourfriend on May 28, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Researching the James Squire story

By beerisyourfriend on December 4, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

So, I wrote a book. Wanna buy a copy?

By beerisyourfriend on January 27, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

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Beer on the Box – Pabst Blue Ribbon

By beerisyourfriend on January 30, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

You like walking alongside big old bits of machinery? Then you like PBR.

Five Things About … Emerson’s Bookbinder

By beerisyourfriend on January 26, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

1) Most of the time you see a movie where a character orders a beer in a bar they ask for – and get – a beer that doesn’t really exist. That’s […]

The Thursday Quote

By beerisyourfriend on January 25, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

“… the English colours were displayed onshore and possession was taken for His Majesty whose health, with the Queen’s, Prince of Wales and success to the colony was drunk, a feu de […]

Beer on the Box – Schlitz

By beerisyourfriend on January 23, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Schlitz sets an ad in Australia in the 1970s, even though they didn’t sell Schlitz here.

Five Things About … James Squire’s 2018 Hop Father

By beerisyourfriend on January 19, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

1) Last month I published a biography of convict brewer James Squire. Well I actually called it THE biography of James Squire; I figured that, seeing as how this was the only […]

The Thursday Quote

By beerisyourfriend on January 18, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

“A brewery has been told to ‘reconsider’ the name of its beer, Pint, because the cans it sells it in are too small. “Marble Beers in Manchester received a letter from Trading […]

Beer on the Box – Pabst Blue Ribbon

By beerisyourfriend on January 16, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Check out that great head acting at around the 10-second mark.

Five Things About … Bridge Road’s Magical Christmas Unicorn

By beerisyourfriend on January 12, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

1) Yeah, I know Christmas is well and truly over. The fairy lights have been unplugged. The giant blow-up Santas are deflated. The decorations are packed away. The tree has been chopped […]

The Thursday Quote

By beerisyourfriend on January 11, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

“Cheap schooners and pints at the pub would be a thing of the past under a radical tax hike proposed to the Turnbull government by anti-alcohol lobbyists. “The excise on all alcohol […]

Beer on the Box- Piels Real Draft

By beerisyourfriend on January 9, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Check out the brief shot of the oddly-shaped beer bottle near the end of the ad.

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