1) The first thing I thought when I tasted this beer was “jeez, that’s tart”. And I kept thinking it all the way through to the end of the glass. For this […]
Five Things About … Rocks Brewing Sauv Blanc Berliner Weisse
History in a Bottle #3 – Australia’s first hanging
The Hangman pale comes from The Rocks Brewing Company, who also owns Harts Pub in Sydney’s Rocks. The pub is located on what, in the early years of settlement, was referred to […]
GABS Brewer 2015: The Rocks Brewing Company
Scotty Morgan from The Rocks Brewing Company, NSW, Australia What beer are you making for GABS? We have a stout penned for the event. With 12 months under our feet we have […]
See you later, Shaun
It’s a bit of a sad day today – because there’s a changing of the guard at the Illawarra Brewing Company. One of them – Shaun Blissett (hey, look Shaun, I spelt […]
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 […]
GABS Brewer – Rocks Brewing Company
GABS Brewer: Scott Morgan from The Rocks Brewing Company, Alexandria, NSW What beer are you making for GABS? We are doing an Apricot Wheat beer. What the base beer will be we […]
Sydney Craft Beer Week – a recap
I went up the road to the big smoke for two nights last week for the Sydney Craft Beer Week. Here are a few reasons why it was tops> I got to […]
Happy with The Hangman
When I started out on this beer loving caper, I never understood why some breweries chose to put their stuff into kegs and didn’t bother with bottling it. To me, they seemed […]
A Harty night out in Sydney
The goal seemed very, very simple – to drink 10 new beers while up in Sydney last Friday. That’s not 10 beers that have only just been created, but rather 10 beers […]
Rocks R&D
When you’re a writer and blogger about beer it can be hard to work out if you’re any good at what you’re doing. As well as this blog I’ve also been the […]
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