Here’s an ABC TV story from last year about the difficulties Australian craft breweries face when trying to get their beers on tap.
Stuck in the past
1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die General editor Adrian Tierney-Jones Pier 9 For the first few years of my beer geekery, I had to rely on the local library’s copy […]
IPA Week – Day Seven
There was a time when I thought the beers from James Squire were pretty good. I was happy to buy them by the six pack and got a little excited whenever I […]
Size does matter – a bit
I’m always going to have a soft spot for James Squire, even though I hardly drink the stuff any more. I hardly drink it these days for the same reason I have […]
Battle of our first brewers
When it comes to breweries named after early Australian brewers, pretty much everyone can name one of them. But, perhaps, fewer could name the other one. Or even know there is a […]
But have you tried them yet?
There’s been a lot of talk lately – both in beer blogs and on Twitter – about the Steamrail range of beers just released by Coles. All of it negative. But there […]
A saison for the season
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 […]
Old man goes on bar crawl
So I went out on a bar crawl last week. Sure, that might not sound like a big deal to you young hipsters who are out every night of the week and […]
A poor Harvest
I have to feel sorry for Hahn. Their main – okay, only – market is the mainstream beer drinker and that has been declining in recent years. But there is a beer […]
Beer time at Trainworks
I always go to a beer festival with a well-thought out plan. And it’s usually a four-step plan. 1) Go and try the odd beers and those I’ve never had before as […]
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