One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
This week’s beer is a fantastic dark lager, Blackberry Bambalam from Woolshed Brewery. This one is once again from South Australia (which, as a state, is seriously kicking some craft beer goals). However, unlike other beers and breweries I’ve written about here, this one is neither from Adelaide nor the surrounding hills. Woolshed Brewery is […]
This week’s beer comes from the other side of the ditch in Wellington, New Zealand: Tuatara IPA. Before I get into the detail of this extremely tasty beer, a few important notes. Wellington is home to a fantastic craft beer scene and is also notably the home of Garage Project among other excellent breweries. Tuatara […]
I’ll warn you now, this week’s beer is a weird one, Pickle Dan Rye Ale from Dainton Brewery. I’ll add a few more additional prefaces as well before proceeding. This is a weird beer. There’s no two ways about it. It’s also not one of my absolute favourites (like most of the beers I usually […]
The beer I’m recommending this week is easily one of my top 5 favourite beers full stop: Pirate Life IIPA. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I aim to mainly highlight and recommend independent Australian breweries and their wares. As some may know, Pirate Life was purchased by a large brewing conglomerate last year. Had […]
This week’s beer comes from Temple Brewing in Brunswick East in the inner suburbs of Melbourne and is the first sour for the blog, Okinawa Sour Blonde Ale. First things first, sours are obviously not everybody’s cup of tea (to use a slightly confusing and probably only vaguely applicable metaphor). I certainly don’t love them […]
For this week’s beer, we head back to the ACT with a truly excellent red IPA: Evil Eye by Capital Brewing. As you may have picked up on, I absolutely love red IPA’s. But that’s not to say I love every red IPA. This, however, is a particularly good example. As I’ve mentioned previously in […]
This week’s beer comes from WA and is the first stout for the blog. It’s the Strawberry Gum Stout from Beer Farm’s Native Series. First off, for anyone who might be reading from outside Australia, in this case a strawberry gum is a type of eucalyptus tree, not a piece of pink chewing gum. While […]
This week’s beer comes from what I suspect to be (but have not made the effort to confirm) the southernmost brewery in Australia: Bruny Island Beer Co. The beer is the 2019 Fresh Hop Harvest Ale. As a general rule I’m not a huge fan of harvest ales. My tastes tend towards the hoppy and […]
This week’s beer is another gem from South Australia: Sundown Sacrifice DIPA from Uraidla Brewery in the Adelaide Hills. I was recently in Adelaide for work and stopped in to a small bottle shop for supplies for the week. I asked the guy behind the counter for a good local beer that I wouldn’t necessarily […]
For the first, but definitely not the last, time in this blog, I will be writing today about a beer from Dainton Brewery in Victoria. I have yet to have a bad beer from Dainton (and I’ve tried a fair few) but today it’s the DIPA Double IPA I’d like to share. This beer is […]
