One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
This week the blog takes a long overdue trip to Newcastle and Foghorn Brewhouse. In recent years, Newcastle has started to develop a reputation for trendy and (more importantly) high quality watering holes and eateries. This was my first trip up to Newcastle for a fair while and I was extremely happy to find that […]
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 we head back into Sydney’s Inner West and Wayward Brewing Co. As I mentioned previously when writing about Staves Brewery, Sydney’s Inner West suburbs are brimming over with good craft breweries. Full disclosure here, my brother and sister-in-law are investors in Wayward Brewing. So I’ve been lucky enough to be aware of them […]
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 […]
For this week’s brewery we return to Wollongong and Five Barrel Brewing. Wollongong is starting to build itself a solid lineup of up-and-coming breweries (I’ve written about Reub Goldberg and Illawarra Brewing Company previously) and Five Barrel is definitely starting to come into its own at the head of that list. While Five Barrel Brewing […]
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 […]
This week’s brewery is another excellent entry from back over in Perth: Nowhereman Brewing. Nowhereman is in the very cool and trendy (at least to my east coast eyes) suburb of Leederville. It seems like every time I’m in Perth, Leederville has a cool new place to eat or drink. And leading the way in […]
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 […]
For this week’s brewery, we head to Far North Queensland and Townsville Brewing Co. Townsville Brewing represents the first time for the blog that we ventured up to Queensland. It won’t be the last, however, with quality breweries like Bargara, Black Hops, and Balter (just off the top of my head) pumping out some truly […]
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 […]
