Number 1: This tweet from the Crafty Pint Airport security: “You going to Wellington for work or holiday?” “Ummm… Work. With drinking?” @BeervanaNZ — Crafty Pint (@TheCraftyPint) August 19, 2014 Best work […]
The Six-Pack: August 22, 2014
Beer science – The French Press Experiments
If you’re like me you’ve probably got some pretty average stock-standard beers at home. Maybe you’re a blogger and someone sent you some ordinary lager to review. Or maybe a friend turned […]
Beers I Used to Drink – Day Two
Spotting a can of Tooheys Blue on the shelves at my local Dan Murphy’s was quite a surprise. I didn’t think they even made this beer any more, thought it went the […]
The beer’s better than the advertising
Sometimes I just don’t get beer advertising. At all. Especially when it’s linked to a tasty beer that already sells itself. Take the guy the above video. He’s the ‘‘Beer Pilgrim’’ – […]
The Thursday quote
“Dr. Pat, as he’s known at Dogfish Head, is the world’s foremost expert on ancient fermented beverages, and he cracks long-forgotten recipes with chemistry, scouring ancient kegs and bottles for residue samples […]
Crap Beer Week – Day Seven
This beer isn’t on the list because it tastes crap – though it is an ordinary beer. For mine there’s a weird sweetness which is presumably from the malt, though it could […]
Hoppy Beer Weekend – Friday
I’ve got this theory with hops. It’s not an original theory by any means. I reckon people’s palates get acclimatised to hops and so they crave hoppier and hoppier beers. So is […]
Stuck in the past
1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die General editor Adrian Tierney-Jones Pier 9 For the first few years of my beer geekery, I had to rely on the local library’s copy […]
The Session #76 Round-Up
Being time-poor as I am (which is really my way of covering up the fact that I’m simply lazy) I haven’t read a lot of the other bloggers work in Sessiosn past. […]
Unique Week – Day Three
I love a bit of history on a beer label – those James Squire’s labels that told the story of the convict-turned-brewer were great (and I also loved that the story was […]
