Country: United States of America Beer: Hoptimum from Sierra Nevada About a month ago I put in an order for a mixed dozen through the awesome Melbourne shop Slowbeer (man, that place […]
The Beer Olympics- Day Two
The Beer Olympics – Day One
Country: Australia Beer: Indian Cricketer by the Staircase Brewery Welcome to Day One of the Beer Olympics, where I will endeavour to drink and review a beer from a different country for […]
Is beer fattening?
Seems it was a bit of a beery day for me and the Illawarra Mercury. Had another story about beer running in today’s paper. This time it was about trying to find […]
Welcome, beer year guys
Here’s a column that appeared in today’s Illawarra Mercury about the recent beer year story that ran in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age. Earlier this month a journalist by […]
At the Wollongong Good Beer Dinner
Last night I was down at Wollongong’s Little Prince for the first of two beer dinners organised by Shaun and Ashur, the brewers at the Illawarra Brewing Company. The next one is […]
Space beer
4 Pines in Manly have been tinkering with a beer that you can drink in space. I asked a few questions about their stout space beer of Jason Held, the space engineer […]
KPA is A-okay
The Stoke brewery is run by New Zealand’s McCashin family, who had the Mac’s line of beers before selling them to Lion. Now they’re back in the beer biz – and I’ve […]
The waiting game
Right now my fermenter is empty – as you might have guessed by this photo. And it’s empty on purpose. See, I figured out I’ve got about four crates of homebrew sitting […]
Waiting too long
This is a bottle of Mountain Goat’s Surefoot Stout. For reasons I’m not at all sure about, I kept this in my beer fridge (which isn’t actually plugged in so as to […]
Why did they bother?
I don’t understand why alcoholic ginger beer exists. See, to me there’s absolutely no difference in taste between the alcoholic version of ginger beer and the soft drink your kids can buy […]
