The Hangman pale comes from The Rocks Brewing Company, who also owns Harts Pub in Sydney’s Rocks. The pub is located on what, in the early years of settlement, was referred to […]
History in a Bottle #3 – Australia’s first hanging
Things I learned from Sydney Craft Beer Week #1
Thing #1: Beer is a great way to explore your surroundings Honestly, I’m crap at geography. When I play Trivial Pursuit it’s the category I always struggle with. I see those YouTube […]
Sydney Craft Beer Week – a recap
I went up the road to the big smoke for two nights last week for the Sydney Craft Beer Week. Here are a few reasons why it was tops> I got to […]
Hoppy Beer Weekend – Saturday
The only other time I had Green Flash’s Palate Wrecker was when Scotty, the brewer from Rocks Brewing, invited me to a special tasting of some beers he’d brought back from the […]
Happy with The Hangman
When I started out on this beer loving caper, I never understood why some breweries chose to put their stuff into kegs and didn’t bother with bottling it. To me, they seemed […]
Homebrewing help
Fellow beer blogger James over at Beer Bar Band has just last month become a homebrewer after a few years of just drinking the stuff. So that prompted me, a homebrewer celebrating […]
Voodoo’s spell of stupidity
I am stupid. In support of that statement I tender the following evidence. For the last two years I’ve been writing a beer column for the paper I work for, the Illawarra […]
Easy, big fella
I really need to come up with a smarter way of handling beer festivals and other beery-like events. It’s a conclusion I’ve come to after experiencing the Meet the Brewer event at […]
A very special beer night
As a beer lover, I regularly buy the US beer magazines that I find in the newsagents here in Wollongong. I’m not entirely sure that’s a good idea because it just ends […]
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