About a year ago I tried my hand at cellaring beer. Which was pretty stupid of me. Why? Well, because I made some really dumb selections. Take the 2013 Coopers Extra […]
Drink It You Idiot – Day One
What The F..k Are You Waiting For? – Day Three
The last time I tried Robinsons Old Tom English strong ale I was rather unimpressed. I certainly didn’t think it lived up to the boast on the neck label – “world’s best […]
That damn pink bottle
I reckon a good proportion of the sales of Rogue’s Voodoo Doughnut beers can be put down to that pink bottle. That lurid colour really makes the beer stand out on the […]
A different sort of low-carb beer
Homebrew mistakes aren’t all that welcome at my place. I devote a fair bit of time to coming up with a beer to brew, working out a recipe and then the several […]
A beer for me
When it comes to homebrew I seem to have more beers I want to make than the time to make them. Take the beer I just bottled a day or so ago. […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Seven
Sometimes it helps to read the label a bit before buying a beer. See, I picked up this Brooklyn Brewery chocolate stout from the bottle shop up north at Coledale because it’s […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Six
I love a good stout but dark beers scare off some people. Perhaps it’s because they look so heavy and murky compared to the mainstream lagers they think of as ‘‘beer’’. Or […]
Friday drinks – Abstinence Chocolate Ale
I’m doing Friday Drinks on Thursday because tomorrow is Good Friday and pretty much all the bottle shops are closed then. So now you can pick something up on your way home […]
What’s in the fridge – Day six
I know just how long this bottle of Choc Hops from Mildura Brewery has been sitting in the beer cellar (aka the fridge we don’t turn on so as to conserve electricity). […]
