1) One thing I wish the beer scene had more of was stupid snobbery. No, I totally kidding – was just seeing if you were paying attention (yeah, first sentence of this […]
Five Things About … Stone & Wood’s Stone Beer
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Beer of the Week – Garden Ale
The beer: Stone & Wood Garden Ale. Where did it come from?: From the brewery. No, I’m not being a smartarse, I actually got a few bottles sent from the brewery for […]
Some beers at Bentspoke
My wife comes from Canberra, which means I’ve made an awful lot of trips to that city in the last 10 years – first to see her and then later, to go […]
Beer of the Week – Posse Summer Ale
There’s nothing a beer geek likes more than scoring a hard-to-find beer. Well, nothing except for breathing. I expect even beer geeks would like breathing more. And eating too, that’s probably […]
A food history of NYC
Eat The City Robin Shulman Broadway Paperbacks (2012) Imagine a book in which the least-interesting chapter is the one about beer. Yes, that’s right – the least interesting chapter. Actually, I should […]
Beer history that’s fun
Man Walks into A Pub Pete Brown Pan Macmillan While I’m very much a book geek, I tend not to re-read books. There are so many new ones to try and so […]
A freakishly good vinegar beer
From the moment I heard about the key ingredient in Brewcult’s Acid Freaks, it immediately went into the No1 spot on my must-try list at this year’s Great Australasian Beer Spectapular. That […]
Extra Vintage is extra great
When you’re a beer reviewer you get some pretty cool stuff in the mail. Beer, obviously, but I sometimes get other handy bits and bobs. Like bottle openers and nifty glassware (the […]
Be excited! It’s back!
You know what’s good? When the Illawarra Brewing Company releases an awesome seasonal called Apocalypso and it quickly becomes your absolute favourite IBC beer. When you realise it’s just a seasonal, you […]
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