These six beers, they all look so different. But they do have something in common. Can you guess what it is? They’re all owned by Woolworths. Well, technically by “Pinnacle Drinks” which […]
Different but still the same
The Six-Pack – January 8, 2016
Number 1: This tweet from Joshua Bernstein The result of 13 years writing hundreds of articles and several books at the same desk? Your floor looks like this. pic.twitter.com/egSO4X3VXm — Joshua M. […]
Drink it you idiot – Day Five
This barley wine from Woolworths (yeah, it’s Sail & Anchor, but they’re owned by Woolworths, so it’s from Woolworths) was the reason I started cellaring beer. Of course. I’ve now stopped that […]
The War on Terroir
I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages but hadn’t gotten around to it. And because I took so long Mountain Goat have gone and changed what they write on their […]
Sail & Anchor’s slow rebrand
I really don’t know what Woolworths is doing with its Sail & Anchor range. It’s like they decided to have a beer label but then didn’t really know what to do. There […]
Session #88: Traditional Beer Mixes
I’m pretty happy with myself about this Session. See, I’d totally forgotten about the last few Sessions until the day they were due to be posted, so I had to bash something […]
The Sail & Anchor beer cellar
After a few years of laughing at those who cellared beer I’ve started to do it myself. And it’s all the fault of that barleywine from Sail & Anchor. I had been […]
The tides they are a’changing
If I were a crazy person I’d presume that the people at Sail & Anchor had the power to read my mind and that I should start stopping a tinfoil hat to […]
Devil Dodger and drinking the label
Taste can be a funny thing. When Sail & Anchor’s Devil Dodger IPA first came out I raced to Uncle Dan’s to buy some. Partially because it was a new beer and […]
Monteith’s misses the point
I’m thinking that Monteith’s just doesn’t get it. Biggish brewers like Gage Road get it and even the Woolworths Brewery (aka Sail & Anchor) gets it. But Monteith’s? Nope. What don’t they […]
