Last January was one of my favourite birthdays, because I got to spend it drinking beer at The Local Taphouse down in St Kilda (curiously I am yet to make it to […]
A beauty of a bottle shop
Bad name for a beer?
The worst-named beer I’d ever come across was Bitch lager. It was an ‘‘extra strength premium lager’’ though how anything with such an odious name could call itself premium was (and still […]
Go the growler
Home delivered growlers of beer from the Rocks Brewing Co. I know what I’m drinking tonight. Cheers Scotty
bedtime reading
Note to parents: a beer or two make Dr Seuss’ tongue twisters in Fox in Socks so much easier to say.
Dog day Arvo
So Casella Wines – the people responsible for the outstandingly ordinary Yellowtail wines – have decided to get into the beer game.Their offering is the terribly-named Arvo Lager, which the bottle suggests […]
Drink to some great mullets
I’d suggest that Melbourne brewer Moon Dog think outside the box but that would imply that they were actually inside the box at some stage. Most of the craft beer breweries here […]
In the pines
It’s a Ballast Point Big Eye. That’s an American IPA. Which means it’s like drinking a liquified Christmas tree. A tasty Christmas tree. Once you take all the decorations off, of course. […]
Mice prove beer is good for us
Beer has long copped a rap for making us fat. That’s why we’ve has a slight spike in those odious low and no-carb beers (these beers are obviously drunk by people who […]
Coopers birthday beer
It was never going to be easy for Coopers. With the brewery’s 150th anniversary this year, it makes perfect sense to release a new beer to celebrate that milestone. But their recent […]
Wine-ing about beer
It was sauvignon blanc from the Marlborough region of New Zealand that got me seriously interested in good beer. See, while I liked a good beer, there was a time when my […]
