A couple of years ago, before I wrote three books on beer history, I ran a week-long series called History in a Bottle. For some reason, this piece here never […]
History in a Bottle – the Crime of Thomas Austin
A home-town beer festival
One of the worst things about being a beer geek in Wollongong is that all the beer festivals happen somewhere else. Sydney. Melbourne. Other places in Australia that aren’t Wollongong. Even New […]
No Beer Til March – Week Three
This week I managed to resist beery temptation not once, but twice. And we’re talking serious beery temptation here. The first instance happened on Tuesday when I went to the Illawarra Brewing […]
Beer moratorium over
Okay, so February being the month of no new beer purchases is officially over. I’m so weak – my resolve barely lasted two weeks. In fact it crumbled at the first sign […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 