On the first Friday of every month beer bloggers around the world join together for The Sessions (which are also known as Beer Blogging Friday). There’s no entry fees or membership required, […]
The Sessions #80 – the craft beer bubble?
Beer festivals and destiny
It must have been destiny that saw me attending the Canberra Small Brewers Festival last Saturday. And no, I don’t think I’m overstating things by using the word ‘‘destiny’’. See, my wife […]
The Thursday quote
From a carton of beer, approximately $13 is paid straight back to the Government in excise tax. In the US it is more like $1.10. On average in the USA, regardless of […]
Stuck in the past
1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die General editor Adrian Tierney-Jones Pier 9 For the first few years of my beer geekery, I had to rely on the local library’s copy […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Given that Michael Jackson is a legend in beer circles, it’s surprising how hard it is to get copies of the books he wrote and the Beer Hunter TV series he made. […]
A taste of Belgium
Okay, just to let you know, I will be throwing a cat among the craft beer pigeons with this post. When I was down in Melbourne for the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular, […]
As great as I remember
The Australian craft beer community went a bit nuts recently when a few cartons of Southern Tier’s Creme Brûlée stout made it to our shores. I’d heard that the stocks ordered by […]
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 […]
The Thursday quote
“It’s funny how we view public drunkeness as socially unpalatable if it’s an old man drinking Scotch from a brown paper bag, but it’s a bit of fun if it’s a group […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Remember all that kerfuffle in beer geek circles when people found out Barack Obama was homebrewing in the White House? Well, if this video is anything to go by, he doesn’t do […]
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