1) HopDog is one of the two breweries on the South Coast where I live. So I gloat a little when I see people in Melbourne acting like it’s a special treat […]
Five things about …. HopDog’s Alluvial Peach
Beer of the Week – Cherry Lambic
The beer: Cherry Lambic. Yep, that’s its name. Where did it come from?: The Illawarra Brewing Company brewhouse. What’s it like?: It’s a nice balance of the sweetness from the cherries, which […]
Good Beer Week recap
The Great Australasian Beer Spectapular – the best run festival ever. Yeah, like beer geeks around the country, I was in Melbourne for Good Beer Week. In fact, if you’d dropped a […]
The Craft Beer Crusaders
Craft Beer Crusaders Series One: The First Crusade Stars: Dan Hanna and Mark Iscaro Okay, so I reckon here’s a conversation that has happened more than once. Usually over a few beers, […]
Melbourne Beer Trip – Day One
I flew back home on Sunday after a lightening-quick visit of Melbourne during Good Beer Week. In this instance “lightning-quick means “two-and-a-half days”, having flown in at lunchtime Thursday and out again […]
Good Beer Week – a snapshot
I wasn’t going to post anything about Good Beer Week until I got back home. For two reasons – I’d be too busy drinking beer to write about it and my fat […]
The Melbourne Beer Mission
A few days ago my wife asked me what I was planning to do while I was in Melbourne. So I ran her through my rather detailed plans. At the end she […]
GABS plan of attack
Sometimes, when I get excited about something, I tend to overplan things. The Great Australasian Beer Spectapular would be one of those times. Ever since I decided to go in January, I’ve […]
A hundred new beers at GABS
Today I found out that the organisers at GABS are expecting this year’s event to feature more than 100 new beers. That is cause for some excitement. Though, as Beer is Your […]
Forget the gardening
If a brewer designs a beer to be drunk in a certain way – with a certain food, during certain weather, in a certain glass, that sort of stuff – I try […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 