One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
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 […]
Tucked away down a laneway behind Broadway Shopping Centre in Glebe, is an excellent little addition Sydney’s craft beer scene: Staves Brewery. To this point I’ve definitely neglected inner city Sydney. It’s an area rich with a ton of awesome breweries like Wayward, Young Henrys, Willie the Boatman, and a ton of others that I’m […]
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 brewery is another purveyor of excellent beers from South Australia, Big Shed Brewing Concern. Big Shed resides in the industrial area of Royal Park in Adelaide’s western suburbs. As soon as you pull up outside the place, you can tell it means business (that business naturally being the production of delicious beer). Walking […]
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 brewery is one of my absolute favourites and the first from the ACT: BentSpoke Brewing Co. This is one of the larger and more mainstream breweries I’ve written about on this blog thus far, and you’ve probably seen a number of BentSpoke’s beers in bottle shops (they’re the cans with entire top that […]
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 […]
One of my favourite local breweries I’ve had the good fortune to come across is Illawarra Brewing Co. in Wollongong. As with many craft breweries these days, Illawarra Brewing Co. is tucked into a row of industrial units along Montague Street in North Wollongong. They also have a brewpub location at WIN Entertainment Centre downtown, […]
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 this week’s brewery, we go a fair ways off the beaten track. Roughly 50 km southwest of Cooma (40 km east of Jindabyne) in southern New South Wale’s Snowy Mountains region, at the end of 15km of narrow dirt road, you’ll find a little brewery that is well worth the effort to find it: […]
