1) For a long, long time I was guilty of taking the beers made by brewers in my home town for granted. They were – and still are – making good beers […]
Five Things About … Five Barrel’s Robust Porter
Five Things About … Illawarra Brewing Company lambics
1) I had to steal the Illawarra Brewing Company’s photo from social media for this post. And that’s for two reasons. Firstly, the two bottles I got had no labels and, […]
Five Things About …IBC’s Chuck Norris
1) The can in this photo is really nothing special to look. It’s a label-less silver can, with a few dings anf dents at the top. There is seemingly no reason to […]
Five Things About … Illawarra Brewing Company cans
1) For the longest time you could only ever get the beers from the Illawarra Brewing Company on tap. Initially that bugged me, but as I went further along on my beer […]
Five Things About … IBC’s Smoked Jalapeno Porter
1) Chilli beers. Oh I hate you so much. For so many of them it’s all about the heat, all about making sure the chilli stomps all over the beer. “Oh […]
Five Things About … Southern Brewers’ We Lost an Eye
1) When you buy a growler, the brewery usually puts a tag around the neck. On that tag is written the name of the beer and the alcohol content. This is, as […]
Five Things About … Five Barrel’s pale ale
1) For the longest time, the Illawarra Brewing Company had Wollongong’s craft beer market all to itself. Of course, back then it was called Five Islands Brewery and the beers were made […]
Five Things About …. Illawarra Brewing’s Raspberry Lambic
1) Is it possible to have a beer made at one brewery considered a collaboration? Because that’s sort of what happened with the raspberry lambic from the Illawarra Brewing Company. In November […]
The trouble of too many taps
In my neck of the woods, the Illawarra Brewery underwent a makeover last month. One that includes demolishing the old bar so they can put in 24 taps. Since the relaunch those […]
Five things about … Illawarra Brewing Company’s Single Hop Sorachi Ace ale
1) The beer in question is part of a trio of single-hop golden ales – Japan, Australia and the United States. Because of those three countries, the collection is called Battle of […]
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