A long way to go for craft beer
Recently I’d been thinking craft beer was making headway in Australia. Sail & Anchor, the Woolies-owned brewery, releases an imperial stout earlier this year, followed by a barleywine for Christmas. Dan Murphy’s […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Two
I actually know how this can of Milwaukee’s Best ended up in my parents’ coolroom. I was responsible – well, kind of. The beer is about seven years old, because that’s when […]
Crap Beer Week – Day Seven
This beer isn’t on the list because it tastes crap – though it is an ordinary beer. For mine there’s a weird sweetness which is presumably from the malt, though it could […]
James and Fraser
It’s funny, I’d always felt that the label of Aldi’s Fraser Briggs was a straight-out copy of James Boag’s premium lager. But, as you can see from the picture above, they’re not […]
Teenage beers
Drinking a can of Rivet gave me under-age drinking flashbacks. When I was 15 years old, a group of us would catch the train into Circular Quay. Once there, someone would go […]
An Indian beer that isn’t
A few months ago a First Choice bottle shop opened up in North Wollongong, and that meant that I needed to go and check it out. On the first day it opened, […]
Canned Beer Week – Day Seven
When it comes to beer, alcohol is essential. And not just because that’s the part that gives you the pleasant buzz. It also gives you the flavour, if the uniform underwhelming nature […]
Canned Beer Week – Day Four
Okay, so think about this. Here we have a beer called Pistonhead Full Throttle. Now, do you expect a beer that calls itself ‘‘Full Throttle’’ to be in some way extreme? Like […]
Canned Beer Week – Day One
Slowly, slowly, canned beer is making a bit of a comeback. Which is a good enough reason for me to create Canned Beer Week. If you’re pretty dim, that means I’ll be […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 