“On a side note, as beer blogger Phil Cook made me realise, wheat beer was made in Germany for hundreds of years before bananas showed up there. Imagine being the person who ate […]
The Thursday Quote
Those crazy Germans
The stereotype of Germans is that they are a very strict, unfunny, quirk-free people. Even their language reflects it; whenever I hear someone speaking German it always sounds to me like the […]
An alcohol-free hefe?
When it comes to non-alcoholic beers, one word springs to mind. Crap. No matter how hard the brewers try, they just can’t make a non-alcoholic beer taste anywhere near as good as […]
James and Fraser
It’s funny, I’d always felt that the label of Aldi’s Fraser Briggs was a straight-out copy of James Boag’s premium lager. But, as you can see from the picture above, they’re not […]
Wollongong beer alert!
Note to self – brushing your teeth shortly when you plan on tasting a beer isn’t the best idea you can have. It’s a lesson I learned yesterday afternoon. Working the afternoon […]
Drinking Dan’s Dry
It’s most likely just me but the name “Pikantus” makes me think this is a Greek beer, because that sounds like a Greek word. Yeah, I know Erdinger isn’t a Greek brewery,….I’m […]
My own beer glass cupboard
Over the weekend my wife announced that I had to do something about my beer glass collection. Seems she thought it was taking up so much space in the cupboard where we […]
South Coast beer run
Today my wife took our daughter to a kids’ party for a few hours, so that left me with some time to kill. Not as much as I’d have liked because my […]
Friday drinks – Schofferhofer hefeweizen
If I had to nominate a favourite style of beer, it’d be the hefeweizen. It’s a beer of German origin – as is probably obvious by its name, which translates into “yeast […]
What’s in the fridge – Day four
Who the hell knows how long this beer has been in the fridge? Not me. The best I can guess is that it’s about a year old because I think I got […]
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