Last week a bunch of us went on another pub crawl. You can go here to see what happened last time around. This time we hit all the same places – just […]
A saison for the season
A tasty break from work
A sign that you might be a beer geek – you use your meal break at work to head to a bar so you can try a new beer. A sign you […]
Beer + Food = Fun
The Illawarra Brewing Company is doing some fine, fine things for craft beer in Wollongong. Most obviously, there’s the fact that they make beer here. Then there’s the swinging taps they have […]
Hey, where did all the alcohol go?
Ever since an unfortunate incident with a bottle of whiskey when I was 14 I have an aversion to alcohol that tastes like alcohol. That incident saw me drink way too much […]
A hypocrite but not a (complete) idiot
I’ll admit it. Sometimes I can be a bit of a hypocrite. For a while now I’ve been of the opinion that people in Wollongong take the beers at the Illawarra Brewery […]
A Harty night out in Sydney
The goal seemed very, very simple – to drink 10 new beers while up in Sydney last Friday. That’s not 10 beers that have only just been created, but rather 10 beers […]
Oompa Loompas and pumpkin beer
Any time I visit a brewery, I get a feeling much like a kid going to a lolly factory. Essentially, I think it’s going to be something like a Willy Wonka experience […]
So unfair
A few days ago I got the word via Twitter that the Illawarra Brewery had put three new beers on their swinging taps. They’re all from the Mornington Peninsula Brewery, run by […]
At the Wollongong Good Beer Dinner
Last night I was down at Wollongong’s Little Prince for the first of two beer dinners organised by Shaun and Ashur, the brewers at the Illawarra Brewing Company. The next one is […]
Wollongong’s US beer dinners
Here’s a story I wrote about Wollongong’s Good Beer Dinners that ran in today’s Illawarra Mercury. Trips to Melbourne and the United States inspired two beer dinners taking place in Wollongong in […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 