“… the English colours were displayed onshore and possession was taken for His Majesty whose health, with the Queen’s, Prince of Wales and success to the colony was drunk, a feu de […]
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Researching the James Squire story
Okay, yeah, so I’ve written another book. And it’s not entirely about beer. It’s a biography of James Squire. I mean the First Fleet convict turned beer brewer (and a stack of […]
Five Things About … Philter XPA
1) So this can of Philter XPA has a very distinctive retro vibe. I get it (and, as a beer history dork – I wrote a book about it and everything – […]
So, I wrote a book. Wanna buy a copy?
UPDATE: For ordering information, including a PayPal option, go here. Regular readers of this blog may recall that I was writing a book called The Slab. If you’re not a regular reader, […]
The big myth about Aussies and beer
While I’d been researching and writing a little book called The Slab, there’s one thing that would increasingly irritate me. That would be this idea of Australia as a nation of beer […]
So, yeah, I’m writing a book
What you’re looking at in this photo is a USB shaped like a beer bottle. It unscrews in the middle and, voila – USB. It carried the promo stuff for the release […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 