Once upon a time, the only beer you could get was the one brewed by your local brewery. That was in the days before refrigeration, where accepted wisdom was that people should […]
The beers we drink round here
Can’t we all just get along?
In the last month or so I’ve been taking a different approach to those beer haters out there. You know the ones; the people who write articles about how craft beer is […]
A beer poster gallery
I really love these old beer posters, and I’m glad that they’ve made a bit of a resurgence. I took these on a recent trip to Sydney. It was a sunny day […]
The Six-Pack: August 22, 2014
Number 1: This tweet from the Crafty Pint Airport security: “You going to Wellington for work or holiday?” “Ummm… Work. With drinking?” @BeervanaNZ — Crafty Pint (@TheCraftyPint) August 19, 2014 Best work […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day Four
Having read several accounts of Thomas Cooper and the brewery he started in 1862, there’s one fact that gets touched on briefly. In 1872, 10 years after starting his brewery Thomas’ wife […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day Two
Even though the beer in the photo that accompanies this blog is of a beer called Reschs Pilsener, it would appear that there never was a brewery just named Reschs. The name […]
A piece of beer history
For a long time – even longer than I’ve been of beer-drinking age – I’ve loved those old painted posters that would feature both in and outside pubs between the 1950s through […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 