You might have heard about the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission saying ‘‘naughty, naughty’’ to CUB over the misleading nature of their Byron Bay Pale Lager. That’s a beer whose bottle, for […]
Do you know where your beer came from?
Australian Beer History Week – Day Five
According to Keith M Deutcher’s Breweries of Australia, Cascade Brewery is our oldest operating brewery, having started making beer in 1832. It was set up by Peter Degraves, who arrived in Hobart […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day Three
So there’s this beer called XXXX brewed by Castlemaine Perkins in Brisbane. It’s a beer the locals see as proudly their own – “Pride of Queensland” the label on the longneck trumpets. […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day Two
Even though the beer in the photo that accompanies this blog is of a beer called Reschs Pilsener, it would appear that there never was a brewery just named Reschs. The name […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day One
This week at Beer Is Your Friend, we’ll be looking at a bit of the brewing history of Australia, one state per day (and the two territories on the same day). I’ll […]
Tap King a real innovation
Never underestimate the power of Twitter. A little while ago I’d banged on in a few tweets about how I wished Lion would hurry up and send me one of their new-fangled […]
Look! It’s another lager!
Shhh, listen carefully. Can you hear it? The cries of beer drinkers wishing that one of the big breweries would come out with yet another lager. What? You can’t hear them? Yep, […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Okay, so I’m still waiting for Lion to send me one of their Tap King thingos to review (if someone from Lion is reading this, can you make sure the beer you […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Two
I’m thinking Sheaf Stout doesn’t get much love from the CUB stables. See, in my day job I was compiling a page of winter beer reviews for the newspaper’s food and wine […]
Siding with a mega brewer
I really never expected to side with the mega brewers CUB. More so, I never expected to feel sorry for them. But it do – and it’s all the fault of craft […]
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