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 […]
The waiting game
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 […]
Wollongong’s US beer dinners
Here’s a story I wrote about Wollongong’s Good Beer Dinners that ran in today’s Illawarra Mercury. Trips to Melbourne and the United States inspired two beer dinners taking place in Wollongong in […]
Three in a row for Little Creatures
Little Creatures was big news in Australian brewing circles recently with a takeover bid by Japanese-owned Lion. The company already owns just under 40 per cent of the Australian company and wants […]
What the hell is that doing here?
So the wife and I took our daughter out to Thirlmere to check out Trainworks and the Thomas the Tank Engine. The trip came about as a result of my day job […]
Kids and beer
As a matter of fact kids and beer do mix – just not in the way you might think. About a week ago, we went up to Sydney to take our daughter […]
Coopers Extra Vintage
I’ve got ever so slightly unpleasant memories of the 2011 Coopers Extra Vintage Ale. And it’s absolutely not the fault of the beer. Last year I’d enjoyed a few of them (in […]
A one-of-a-kind beer
Most beers hang around for yonks, so they’re easy to get a hold of. They can sit in the beer fridge for months until a mate recommends it as a good beer […]
Talk about disappointing
There’s a bit of a story behind this beer. Not to do with the beer itself but how I came to acquire it. And the story is probably more interesting than the […]
