A few weeks ago, I singled out Temple Brewing in Melbourne as one of the best breweries in the country. They liked what I wrote so much that, a few days later, […]
I give a damn about Scarlet
Cheating with Untappd check-ins?
I’m not hundred per cent sure whether I’ve been cheating a tad with my Untappd beer check-ins. See, over the Christmas break my unique check-ins experienced a bit of a spike. They […]
Beer and bubbles
About two weekends ago my wife took me to Bowral for my birthday. While we were there, we stopped in at the Imperial Hotel for a beer. I’d seen photos of the […]
Breaking up six-packs – right or wrong?
Last Thursday night threw up another instance of a real issue I have about buying beer – whether or not to break open a six-pack. I was in Dan Murphys looking to […]
PBR and that 1893 honour
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer Maureen Ogle Harcourt In an earlier post, I wrote about the oddness of Pabst Blue Ribbon including this blurb on their cans – ‘‘Selected as […]
Double IPA is the bomb
One of the many niches in the world of beer is the stupidly-hopped beer. That’s where the brewer decides that the best thing to do is ladle in so many hops that […]
What does a Convict taste like?
For quite a while the Gage Roads brewery in Western Australia has confused me. On the one hand, they’re responsible for some rather ordinary mainstream beers like Wahoo and their ‘‘Gage Premium […]
Three of the best breweries in Australia
When it comes to a brewery’s output, it’s pretty safe bet that you won’t like it all. Maybe they do an ordinary lager, maybe they do a bland pilsner or an IPA […]
The Thursday quote
“The marketing geniuses at the world’s industrial breweries haven’t a clue as to what kind of beer you like. Even if they did, the bets they could do would be to dump […]
Homebrewing help
Fellow beer blogger James over at Beer Bar Band has just last month become a homebrewer after a few years of just drinking the stuff. So that prompted me, a homebrewer celebrating […]
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