Country: Britain Beer: Hook Norton Haymaker So the Olympic Games are less than a week away from finishing up and I’ve only just realised I’ve yet to include a beer from Britain. […]
Beer Olympics – Day 11
Brewery is for swingers
One of the problems of loving craft beer and living in Wollongong is that the stuff can be hard to get on tap. You can get the bottled stuff easy enough but […]
Beer Olympics – Day 10
Country: Indonesia Beer: Bintang It’s seldom a good sign if a product or business is best known as a T-shirt. Remember those Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts that were so cool in the […]
Beer Olympics – Day Nine
Country: Belgium Beer: Hoegaarden My wife is out tonight at dinner with friends, which is really the only time I’d be able to drink this beer in peace. She’s a mad Hoegaarden […]
Beer Olympics – Day Eight
Country: Norway Beer: Smoke Without Fire by HaandBryggeriet I’ll always remember the first time I tried a HaandBryggeriet beer – because it was a stupid decision. That’s not a criticism of the […]
The history of beer
This is just one page of a fascinating graphic history of beer I found over here. Wish I had the internet – and graphic – smarts to do anything as cool as […]
IPA Day 2012
So today is IPA Day. What does that mean? Buggered if I know to be honest. I’ve just had people on Twitter talking about it and planning what IPA they were going […]
Beer Olympics – Day Seven
Country: Mexico Beer: Cave Creek Chili Beer Permit me a bit of a rant about language. These days people seem far more prone to exaggeration, making out some trifling incident was a […]
Beer Olympics – Day Six
Country: Italy Beer: Brewfist Fear milk chocolate stout Expectation can be an irritating thing. Take this beer from Italy’s Brewfist. I’d previously tried their Space Man IPA and was very impressed. I’d […]
Beer Olympics – Day Five
Country: Thailand Beer: Chang Beer There is so much about this beer that puts me off even before I’ve opened it. For starters, there’s the fact that it’s called “Chang Beer”. What, do […]
