If I’m doing a post with a Christmas theme of sorts, it makes sense to have at least one beer that also has a Christmas theme. This is one the annual Christmas […]
Clearing out the Fridge – Day Five
The alcohol wuss
Here are two things worth knowing about me before you read this review> 1) The first time I got drunk was on whisky when I was about 14. And I threw up […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – Day Two
Friday morning was the best of times and the worst of times. Worst: I discovered that truck drivers like to park on the street outside my basement room window at 6am and […]
A beer for Milo Kerrigan
There aren’t a lot of things that make me laugh out loud; I’m more of a smile guy. But one thing that does make me laugh out loud is Shan Micallef’s character […]
Wollongong Beer Week – Day Seven
The mind of Tim at HopDog works in strange ways. Take the example of his latest beer – Redrum. According to the bottle label it had its origins when someone offered him […]
Wollongong Beer Week – Day Five
Children of Darkness is the beer that made a big difference to the fortunes of HopDog. It was made for last year’s Great Australasian Beer Spectapular after brewer Tim Thomas got a […]
A hundred new beers at GABS
Today I found out that the organisers at GABS are expecting this year’s event to feature more than 100 new beers. That is cause for some excitement. Though, as Beer is Your […]
A Cosmic Australia Day
So I spent a fair whack of my Australia Day at work. From 3pm to 11pm I was working. The first half of that shift involved walking around the Oz Day celebrations […]
Double IPA is the bomb
One of the many niches in the world of beer is the stupidly-hopped beer. That’s where the brewer decides that the best thing to do is ladle in so many hops that […]
A HopDog Christmas
I’m a big, big, big fan of Christmas. For ages I figured greed was the driving factor behind that – I loved Christmas because it was a time I got loads of […]
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