Not entirely sure how I feel about this homebrewing innovation. One the one hand, I love a good gadget. And, as the video promises, it just takes seven days to make your […]
Homebrewing of the future?
Happy Independence Day
It’s the Fourth of July so I figured it meant I should drink an American beer. And one of my favourite US beers is Samuel Adams Noble Pils. It’s apparently one of […]
Brewer Q&A – HopDog
A Q&A session with Tim Thomas, brewer at HopDog BeerWorks in Nowra. How did you get into brewing? I got started in brewing when I went in with a couple of mates […]
Wollongong Good Beer Dinners
Now this is something I’m very, very keen to go to. Stuff like this needs to happen more often in Wollongong
Craft beer in the Illawarra
For your interest, here’s a story I wrote for the Illawarra Mercury about craft beer on the South Coast. South Coast drinkers are discovering craft beer, just like others around Australia. […]
A very special beer night
As a beer lover, I regularly buy the US beer magazines that I find in the newsagents here in Wollongong. I’m not entirely sure that’s a good idea because it just ends […]
Amateur homebrewer mistake
A few months ago, I visited the Illawarra Brewing Company’s new brewing set-up at North Wollongong. While I was there, Ashur, one of the brewers, found I’d started homebrewing and handed me […]
HopDog gives a fig
I’d like to get down to HopDog brewery in Nowra much more often than I do. But, from the northern suburbs of Wollongong, it’s a bit more than an hour’s drive down […]
Indian homebrew
This is my latest home brew in the fermenter and a day or two away from being bottled. I call it Indian Cricketer. Why? Because it’s an IPL. That’s an IPA made […]
Dubbel trouble
First up, I’ll apologise for the crappy ‘‘dubbel trouble’’ pun in the subject header. But when you’re talking about a dubbel, it’s a screamingly obvious pun to make. And, sometimes, I like […]
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