1) It’s not surprising I was quite excited to score a bottle of Pliny the Elder as an early birthday present (early by just over two months). As beers go this sucker […]
Five Things About … Pliny the Elder
Five Things About … 3 Ravens Juicy IPA
1) If a point is worth stating, it’s worth stating over and over and over again. For the CBBC crowd (that’s Can’t Be Bothered Clicking – an acronym I made up […]
Five things about …. Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
1) Ah, social media. There’s nothing better for generating buzz or hype around a beer. Sure, the breweries can advertise all they want but nothing’s better for making beer geeks think ‘‘damn, […]
Five Things About … Pirate Life Throwback IPA
1) Hype can be a terrible thing indeed. It can so easily ruin the experience of something. It’s why, when I was a newspaper movie reviewer (yes, it is the best job […]
Beer of the Week – Enjoy By 2.14.15
The beer: Stone’s Enjoy By 2.14.15 Where did it come from?: Slowbeer in Melbourne, I think. See it was bought for me by Luke from Ale of a Time and mailed up […]
The art of reviewing
In my two decades as a professional journalist, I’ve done a whole lot of reviewing. I’ve been a movie reviewer (one of my reviews ended up quoted on the back cover of […]
The Sessions #83 – Against the Grain
Once a month, on the first Friday of that month beer bloggers around the world take part in a thing called The Sessions. Which is also known as Beer Blogging Friday. Those […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 