1) So it’s summer time and it’s a nice, sunny day. It’s certain you’re going to need a cool, refreshing drink at some stage. So of course, that drink will be a […]
Five Things About … Hope Brewhouse Chocolate Milk Porter
Five Things About … Stone & Wood’s The Gatherer 2018
1) When you try a tasty beer, is it wrong to keep it all to yourself and not share it? You see, sometimes when I taste a nice beer I hand the […]
Five Things About … Balter Brewing’s Black Metal Disco
1) Stouts and porters can be offputting for some newcomers to the world of good beer. It’s related to the colour; it’s an impenetrable dark colour as compared to the amber and […]
GABS Brewer 2016 – Modus Operandi
GABS Brewer 2016: Modus Operandi from Sydney’s northern beaches What beer are you making for GABS? We are making a foreign stout brewed with cocoa nibs from South America, cinnamon, coffee from […]
GABS Brewer – Invercargill Brewery
GABS Brewer: Steve Nally, Head Brewer, Invercargill Brewery in New Zealand What beer are you making for GABS? Orange stout. Does it have a name yet? Pitch Black Orange Stout. Where did […]
The Thursday Quote
“There are some images that are just wrong: uncanny, creepy. One of them is a poster of a smiling, steel-helmeted Nazi-era German soldier holding a pint of stout, with the words in […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Six
In this whole week, this bottle of Coopers Best Extra Stout was the swiped old beer that I was most looking forward to trying. It’s Australian, which meant it didn’t have to […]
Australian Beer History Week – Day Five
According to Keith M Deutcher’s Breweries of Australia, Cascade Brewery is our oldest operating brewery, having started making beer in 1832. It was set up by Peter Degraves, who arrived in Hobart […]
A whale of a stout
Imperial stouts are one of the style that I find a bit scary. As their name suggests, they’re big, big, BIG – brimming with alcohol and a stupid amount of coffee flavour. […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Seven
Sometimes it helps to read the label a bit before buying a beer. See, I picked up this Brooklyn Brewery chocolate stout from the bottle shop up north at Coledale because it’s […]
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