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Researching the James Squire story

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Beer Olympics – Day Four

By beerisyourfriend on July 30, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Country: Canada Beer: Maudite from Unibroue As far as I know, Quebec brewer Unibroue are no longer exporting to Australia (something to do with a decision made by new owner Sapporo, I […]

The Beer Olympics – Day Three

By beerisyourfriend on July 29, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Country: Poland Beer: Malina from Browar Namysidw Every now and then in beer fridges around the place you’ll stumble across oddities. One if the oddest beers I’ve found was one from somewhere […]

The hard-to-get bacon beer

By beerisyourfriend on July 28, 2012 • ( 2 Comments )

This is a really odd beer – in a marketing sense, I mean. As beers go, it’s the best thing Hahn have done for a while. See, Hahn ran some contest or […]

The Beer Olympics- Day Two

By beerisyourfriend on July 28, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

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 One

By beerisyourfriend on July 27, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

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?

By beerisyourfriend on July 26, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By beerisyourfriend on July 26, 2012 • ( 3 Comments )

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

By beerisyourfriend on July 26, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By beerisyourfriend on July 23, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By beerisyourfriend on July 22, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

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