One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
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: […]
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 […]
For this week’s brewery, we go back over to Western Australia for easily the largest and most main-stream brewery I’ve written about so far: Feral Brewing. My aim with this blog is to mainly focus on the smaller and maybe less well-known breweries of Australia, but I will occasionally throw in a larger brewery that […]
For most of this blog I intend to focus on Australia’s craft breweries and beers. But I will occasionally throw in an overseas brew. And seeing as how it was July 4 last week, I thought it might be an appropriate time to share one of my favourite American beers, Arrogant Bastard Ale. This beer […]
This past week I was out in Western Australia for work. While in Perth I was fortunate enough to make my way over to Blasta Brewing Co in Burswood, just to the east of the CBD. It’s a long trip over to WA, but a place like Blasta makes the trip feel pretty worth it. […]
