When you have a kid it can be hard to fully indulge your inner beer geek. For instance, my parents live out Campelltown way and we regularly drive up for a visit. […]
Mixing up the beers
Friday drinks – Temple Bicycle Beer
Most Temple beers can be hard to recommend for Friday drinks. Not because of their quality – on that score I’d happily recommend any of them. No, the issue is their availability, […]
Not too happy about the herbs
Sometimes when I look at Untappd check-ins I wonder if they were done when the person started drinking the beer or when they finished it. I’m very much in the former camp. […]
Siding with a mega brewer
I really never expected to side with the mega brewers CUB. More so, I never expected to feel sorry for them. But it do – and it’s all the fault of craft […]
Homebrew in a flash
It’s been a busy time here at Beer is Your Friend, what with the recent month-and-bit of the GABS Brewer series as well as working on something planned for next month. So busy […]
Who asked for cleanskin beer?
Let me tell you a story about buying this bottle of Cleanskin Beer. Sorry, Premium Cleanskin Beer, according to the label (because I wouldn’t want to think I was just drinking an […]
Gong Craft Beer Week – winter
These days it seems every city has it’s own beer week, so where is Wollongong’s, you may be wondering. Well it’s right here. Gong Craft Beer Week kicks off on April 29 […]
It’s YouTubesday!
It’s an oddly-animated and voiced but very amusing film about an OTT beer geek talking to a girl at the office. I assume this has to be a pisstake at the uber-beer […]
What a great, great beer
Earlier this year I succumbed to a long-running temptation and signed up to the Bridge Road Brewers Posse. That’s where you can get Ben and the team to send you a case […]
Some noise over Quiet Deeds
Last month segments of the good beer community got a bit tetchy over comments made by one of the guys behind new pale ale Quiet Deeds. The beer comes from Red Island […]
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