One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
After our night of a couple of breweries and a Royal in Daylesford, it was time to continue on the tour. So we prepared ourselves to get back on the road and head on the Royal Hotel Bacchus Marsh. First up in the morning I took an entirely uneventful walk back into Daylesford from Hepburn […]
Editor’s Note: Two days after we visited the Royal Hotel Daylesford, a tragic car accident took the lives of five people in the pub’s front beer garden. Several others were injured in the incident. We were very conscious that this post not have the tone of being about us having a ‘near miss’, even slightly […]
After departing the old school Royal Hotel Seymour, we headed about an hour down the road to the next stop on the Tour, the Royal Hotel Sunbury. The Royal Hotel Sunbury was a fair bit of a departure from the couple of Victorian Royals we had hit thus far. While the building it occupied definitely […]
After finishing our schooners at the Royal Hotel Benalla we grabbed lunch at the highly recommended local bakery and were back on the road. After a quick petrol stop in Violet Town (home of Killing Heidi for all of you Australian rock aficionados) we were on our way to the next stop on the Royal […]
And we’re back. After a holiday break, the blog returns with the start of the first interstate trip of the Royal Tour. For this leg, John and I were joined by our good mate Anthony. Anthony was present on the first night that the Royal Tour was conceived of, but had up to this point […]
Editor’s note: After Hill End, the Royal Hotel Oberon is the second of John’s cameo posts. It’s a good one for him to take as well because, as John alludes to, I was barely functional at that point. Also, this will be the final post of the year before the blog returns in January with […]
Editor’s Note: This begins another 2-week stint of posts written by John. For this one, the Tour rolled on from the gem of a Royal in Sofala into it’s final stop for the night, the picturesque, quaint gold-mining town of Hill End. Even though our experience at the Royal Hotel Hill End this time around […]
After finishing up in Cassilis, the tour rolled on 2 hours south and seemingly 100 years back in time to the Royal Hotel Sofala. And that’s not a dig at Sofala by any means. I’m pretty sure the olde-time-iness is intentional. Or if not completely intentional, at the very least fully embraced. We thought Carcoar […]
The next stop on the Royal Tour was a hidden gem just up the road: the Royal Hotel Cassilis The town of Cassilis itself is not directly on the Golden Highway (that’s the road’s actual name, I’m not getting poetic) like Merriwa and Denman were. You have to take a short 1.5km detour to get […]
Reluctantly we left the massive pub, absurdly sized TV’s, and morning happy hours of Denman behind, as the Tour continued on up the road to the pub that would mark the 1/4 of the way mark: the Royal Hotel Merriwa. The Merriwa Royal was much more out of the traditional pub mold (as opposed to […]
