“But these pioneering beers — the pale ales, IPAs, and Belgian-style whites of the 1980s, ’90s, and early 2000s — paved the way for the endlessly experimental beers of today. Far from boring, these flavourful brews […]
The Thursday Quote
Beer on the Box – Little Creatures Pale Ale
Is this even a real ad?
BrewDog for Christmas
If I didn’t know better, I’d say BrewDog brewed this pair of Christmas beers with the idea of one being for the northern hemisphere and the other for the southern. Jeez, what […]
Crap Beer Week – Day Four
Regular readers would know of my great disappointment with Monteith’s. I once loved their beers but now they’re ordinary. And the new beers they’re launching are really hit and miss. I really […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day Six
When it came to choosing a Western Australian brewery to write about, the decision was difficult because there are two very important ones to choose from. One the one hand there’s Matilda […]
Death to other chili beers
Elsewhere, I have written about the stupidity of putting chili in beer. More specifically here and here. In a nutshell, my objection is why put something that’s hot into something that’s supposed […]
I miss Monteith’s
It breaks my heart a little bit to see what has happened to Monteith’s because I used to think they were something special. Lets go back to 2003 and my then-girlfriend now-wife […]
Star Wars homebrew
Okay, so after a few experiments at making an IPA went wrong (definition of wrong: I can still drink them because I made them but they won’t come out when we have […]
Some noise over Quiet Deeds
Last month segments of the good beer community got a bit tetchy over comments made by one of the guys behind new pale ale Quiet Deeds. The beer comes from Red Island […]
GABS brewer – Red Duck
Scott Wilson-Browne from Red Duck in Victoria has a hand in not one, but two, GABS beers. What beer are you making for GABS? Red Duck has sort of ended up with […]
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