Today I’m doubling up because this Unique Week entry is also worthy of Friday drinks consideration. It is The Pale Ale (yep, that’s what it says on the can. Not just a […]
Unique Week – Day Six and Friday drinks
Unique Week – Day Five
Spotting a Mountain Goat Rare Breed around Wollongong is cause for a small celebration. You see, the occasional releases from the Victorian brewer only seem to turn up here sporadically. For instance, […]
Hunting for beer
The family ducked up to the Hunter Valley for a few days earlier this week. As many will know, the Hunter is one of the major wine-growing regions in Australia. As such […]
Star Wars homebrew
Okay, so after a few experiments at making an IPA went wrong (definition of wrong: I can still drink them because I made them but they won’t come out when we have […]
Unique Week – Day Four
Look at that bottle. It looks like it might be ceramic bottle, doesn’t it? I can tell you it feels like one too – cooler to the touch and with more heft […]
Unique Week – Day Three
I love a bit of history on a beer label – those James Squire’s labels that told the story of the convict-turned-brewer were great (and I also loved that the story was […]
It’s YouTubesday!
“Tell me there aren’t any more ways to incorporate hop puns into my beer names”. That’s just one of the choice quotes in this parody of Stone Brewing’s honestly-felt but rather over-earnest […]
Unique Week – Day Two
By way of starting this entry on the Kyara beer from the Coedo Brewery in Japan, allow me to quite from the back label. “We recommend to take time to enjoy it […]
Unique Week – Day One
This here is an Untappd-inspired week at Beer Is Your Friend, because it’s Unique Week. That’s where I’m writing about seven beers that will be unique check-ins on Untappd – and they’re […]
A beer book for beginners
People who know a lot about a subject can really struggle when they try to write a book for beginners. That’s because they tend to forget what it’s actually like to know […]
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