1) This week the long-running industrial dispute between CUB and the 55 workers it punted ended. The workers did have jobs to go to but they were with a contractor who would […]
Five Things About … Hoegaarden
The Thursday Quote
“Football is a great game, and Sheaf Stout is the finest drink to renew one’s energy – whether after a strenuous match or a hard day’s work. The rich barley malt in […]
Five Things About … CUB’s Sheaf Stout
1) Finding Sheaf Stout in the bottle shop is like finding a dinosaur in your backyard. Yes, it’s cool and all but it really shouldn’t be there. But I reckon Sheaf Stout […]
The beers we drink round here
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 […]
History in a Bottle #1 – The Foundational Orgy
Welcome to the start of the week I like to call History in a Bottle. The aim here is to talk about Australian beer and history. Not the boring history, the […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Two
I’m thinking Sheaf Stout doesn’t get much love from the CUB stables. See, in my day job I was compiling a page of winter beer reviews for the newspaper’s food and wine […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 