The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community where, on the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined topic. Each month a different blog […]
The Session #71 – Brewers and Drinkers
Homebrewing update
In which I offer a recap of my two most recent homebreweing efforts and ask for some assistance with my next recipe. A while ago I experimented with a watermelon wheat beer, […]
A curious can of beer
This is my first post since before Christmas – because I’ve been on holidays and having too much fun to sit down and write a blog entry. I know some bloggers will […]
The end of “craft beer”
A few days ago I read this post about the phrase ‘‘craft beer’’ from Luke at Ale of a Time. On Twitter he had apologised for what he called an unedited rant, […]
A tasty break from work
A sign that you might be a beer geek – you use your meal break at work to head to a bar so you can try a new beer. A sign you […]
A HopDog Christmas
I’m a big, big, big fan of Christmas. For ages I figured greed was the driving factor behind that – I loved Christmas because it was a time I got loads of […]
Discover the taste of Sarcasm
Being rostered on a week of night shift means that I get the chance to brew some beer. Finding the space to brew any other time is tricky. With a wife and […]
Old man goes on bar crawl
So I went out on a bar crawl last week. Sure, that might not sound like a big deal to you young hipsters who are out every night of the week and […]
Making a beer holiday seem dull
Teachings from the Tap Merideth Canham-Nelson Beer Trekker Press, paperback, $16 You ask me, as a full-time journo, travel stories are bloody hard to write. That’s why a guy like Bill Bryson […]
Weird things about PBR
Here’s three weird things about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Weird thing Number One: When I saw the pallets and pallets of it at my local Dan Murphy’s last week (clearly they’re expecting to […]
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