About a week ago I put down my first homebrew in more than two months. There were a couple of reasons for that gap – which is the longest brew-less spell in my […]
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Struggling with summer
Try as I might – and I have tried – I can’t help but feel disappointed about Mountain Goat’s Summer Ale. That came as a bit of a surprise because I was […]
Stuck in the past
1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die General editor Adrian Tierney-Jones Pier 9 For the first few years of my beer geekery, I had to rely on the local library’s copy […]
Friday drinks – Stone & Wood Pacific Ale
This Friday’s drinks recommendation is an old favourite – Stone & Wood’s Pacific Ale. It routinely scores either first or second place in those “best beers” lists that come out each year, […]
Forget the gardening
If a brewer designs a beer to be drunk in a certain way – with a certain food, during certain weather, in a certain glass, that sort of stuff – I try […]
A taste for the Pacific
I have to wonder whether some people’s opinion of whether Stone & Wood make ‘‘craft beer’’ changed this week. If you missed it, the Byron Bay brewery is buying back the part […]
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 […]
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