I have to feel sorry for Hahn. Their main – okay, only – market is the mainstream beer drinker and that has been declining in recent years. But there is a beer […]
A poor Harvest
A taste for the Pacific
I have to wonder whether some people’s opinion of whether Stone & Wood make ‘‘craft beer’’ changed this week. If you missed it, the Byron Bay brewery is buying back the part […]
The Session #69 – The Perfect Beer World
The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community, started by Stan Hieronymus at Appellation Beer. On the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined […]
It’s Endeavour vintage time
Just for the hell of it, here’s an Illawarra Mercury beer column I wrote a few weeks ago about the release of the 2012 Endeavour beers. This is my favourite time of […]
A Harty night out in Sydney
The goal seemed very, very simple – to drink 10 new beers while up in Sydney last Friday. That’s not 10 beers that have only just been created, but rather 10 beers […]
A bit wiser about Bud
Budweiser is a beer I’ve never had – and with good reason. The advance news of this US beer has never been good. In my teens, when my own knowledge of beer […]
Beer, Transformers and Megan Fox
Look, being a beer reviewer for a newspaper does have a downside. I can hear the cynical jibes already. ‘‘Yes, I’m sure getting sent free beer to drink must be so tough […]
Riding the Weekday Wagon
As of Monday I’ve been making an attempt to get back on the Weekday Wagon. It’s a concept that was borne from drinking too much of the wine from the family winery […]
Uncool and proud of it
Ages and ages ago I can remember going into a record store and buying Nirvana’s Nevermind album. Yes, it was back when they had things called record stores. And, in another instance of […]
Oompa Loompas and pumpkin beer
Any time I visit a brewery, I get a feeling much like a kid going to a lolly factory. Essentially, I think it’s going to be something like a Willy Wonka experience […]
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