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 is […]
The Session #70 – Don’t Believe the Hype
Some notes on Fat Yak
Here’s some short notes on Fat Yak, a beer from Matilda Bay that has polarised craft beers like no other from the brewer. Well, at least until they released Minimum Chips (a […]
Beer beats wine in my book
Grape vs Grain Charles Bamforth Cambridge University Press, HB, 209 pages Bamforth’s book delves into a topic dear to my heart – why, in so many way, wine has such a classy […]
Voodoo’s spell of stupidity
I am stupid. In support of that statement I tender the following evidence. For the last two years I’ve been writing a beer column for the paper I work for, the Illawarra […]
Time for a coffee
I’m glad the the last few days of hot weather have stopped. Partially because I simply don’t function well at high temperatures. But also because I couldn’t drink this beer when it’s […]
Two hemispheres of IPA
I know Michael Jackson (insert overused “not that Michael Jackson, the other one” here) was famous for saying that the United States was the world leader when it came to beer. And […]
Forget the gardening
If a brewer designs a beer to be drunk in a certain way – with a certain food, during certain weather, in a certain glass, that sort of stuff – I try […]
Beer and browsing
I just ducked out to a bottle shop near work that is known to stock the odd beer from HopDog in Nowra. I was specifically after brewer Tim Thomas’ White Christmas. I […]
Beer + Food = Fun
The Illawarra Brewing Company is doing some fine, fine things for craft beer in Wollongong. Most obviously, there’s the fact that they make beer here. Then there’s the swinging taps they have […]
Messing with a pair of melons
So, with summer here, I had this idea that I wanted to brew a watermelon wheat beer. I like watermelon, find it quite refreshing and, though I’ve never had it in a […]
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