It’s safe to say my visit to Melbourne for Good Beer Week was short and sweet. Very sweet indeed. That’s largely because I somehow came away with the tag of Australian […]
An award and a reward
The Thursday Quote
“Being able to produce a beer with a sense of place is the missing ingredient from modern beer. We’re trying to get back to what beer always was.” Costa Nikias from La […]
Crafty Pint and the question of ownership
Yesterday James Smith published an excellent series of Q&As with a range of beer people on the subject of ownership. It’s a fascinating read and I urge you to have a look at […]
Crafty work worth the wait
150 Great Australian Beers James Smith Hardie Grant, 2014 Some months before this book was released on Friday, I’d sent a message to Smith via Twitter offering my services to read through […]
The Thursday Quote
“When you are doing a one-off batch and it doesn’t quite come out as you are thinking, who cares? No-one knows what it was supposed to be like anyway. When you’ve got […]
The Thursday quote
“Falling sales. Takeover bids. The lowest level of consumption in decades. Take your pick any number of recent gloomy headlines and you could be forgiven for thinking the Australian beer industry is […]
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