In case you’re interested, here is my list of 10 beers I have to try at GABS – in alphabetical order in case someone from Two Birds gets cranky about being last […]
The GABS Top 10
Five things about …. HopDog’s Alluvial Peach
1) HopDog is one of the two breweries on the South Coast where I live. So I gloat a little when I see people in Melbourne acting like it’s a special treat […]
GABS Brewer 2015: HopDog BeerWorks
Tim Thomas from Nowra’s HopDog BeerWorks What beer are you making for GABS? We’re making a pentagonally hopped barrel aged India Brown Rye Ale. What’s it called? It’ll be called the Taxidermied […]
Beer of the Week – Workers’ Playtime
The beer: Workers’ Playtime. It’s an IPA brewed with a saison yeast. Where did it come from?: Two places, actually. The wort kit (called ‘‘Session IPA’’) came from Nowra’s HopDog BeerWorks but […]
Top Five for the year
So again, it’s time to vote in The Local Taphouse Hottest 100 Australian craft beer poll. The poll that is to beer geeks, what Triple J’s Hottest 100 is to music geeks […]
Beer of the Week – Horns Up
The beer: Horns Up Rye IPA. Where did it come from?: Well the brewery is HopDog at Nowra but I got it at Crown West Cellars, just a day after HopDog’s exceptionally […]
Back to homebrewing
Here’s a sentence you won’t read all that often – my wife made me brew a batch of beer on Saturday. It’s a true story. Oh, okay, it wasn’t like she […]
Beer of the Week – Southerly Buster
When I hear about a great new beer that’s just been released it can be hard to temper my expectations before I get my hands on it. I don’t want to build […]
See you later, Shaun
It’s a bit of a sad day today – because there’s a changing of the guard at the Illawarra Brewing Company. One of them – Shaun Blissett (hey, look Shaun, I spelt […]
Beer of the Week – SuperBeast
There are loads of things that never cease to amaze me about beer. For instance, how often do you see a fat brewer? Not that often. And yet they’re around beer all […]
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