UPDATE: John Latta from importer Experienceit has provided a detailed response to this post. It appears in the comments below. Australia is a magic place when it comes to hoppy beers – […]
The strange thing about best-before dates
Five Things About … Nomad’s Long Reef Pale Ale
1) At least twice a week I head to the Dan Murphy’s website and check the “new arrivals” tab. You know, just to see if there is anything new there. Yes, some […]
The Thursday Quote
‘‘When this was first brewed in 1980, you could probably drink a bottle of beer from every US craft brewery in one night and still walk home.’’ Mark Dredge reviewing Sierra Nevada […]
The Six-Pack – September 12, 2014
Number 1: This tweet from Brews News Can anyone offer a meaningful explanation about what a 'session IPA' is and why it's not just an unbalanced American-style pale ale? — Australian BrewsNews […]
The need
In the world of the beer geek “need” is a funny thing. Take this 12-pack of Founders All Day IPA I bought this week. It’s not like I have a shortage of […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Check out this time-lapse video of the fermentation of Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot. It’s amazing.
What about the beer, Ken?
BEYOND THE PALE Ken Grossman, Wiley I really wanted to like Grossman’s story about the brewery he founded. How much? So much that I’d planned to run a Sierra Nevada Week here […]
Hoppy Beer Weekend – Friday
I’ve got this theory with hops. It’s not an original theory by any means. I reckon people’s palates get acclimatised to hops and so they crave hoppier and hoppier beers. So is […]
Drinking Dan’s Dry
When you think about it, the Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale is a bit environmentally unsound. See what they do is get freshly picked hops from New Zealand rushed over lickety-split […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Ken Grossman from Sierra Nevada and Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head talk about the new IPA glass from Spiegelau. Is it a good glass? I’m not sure, but would love to test […]
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