One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
After a couple weeks’ break we’re back. We last left off in Mirrool with their great Royal and better contest/backstory. From there we headed half an hour up the Newell Highway to the Royal Hotel West Wyalong. West Wyalong is a town I’ve actually spent some time in over the years. But somehow I never […]
So we departed Grong Grong and forged ahead into the next 50 Royals on the list. And the first Royal of that next 50? The Royal Hotel Mirrool. Mirrool is a tiny town of less than 250 people, but with an awesome claim to fame. But I’ll get to that in a sec. Now up […]
And so, with Corowa and the first Victorian leg of the Tour in the review mirror, we headed into the wilds of central New South Wales for the next leg. A leg that started with the Royal Hotel Coolamon. But before I get too deeply into the pub itself, I should introduce the cast for […]
Editor’s Note: After leaving the good folk of Berrigan to their hangovers, we headed for the Royal Hotel Corowa. For the final Royal of this leg of The Tour, I once again leave you in John’s capable-ish hands. Next week will start the beginning of the next leg of our tour as we journey through […]
And so, after an excellent final night in St Arnaud, it was time for the Royal Tour’s first interstate foray to come to an end. So, much to Anthony’s disappointment, we departed Victoria for home. But luckily enough, our route home took us to two more Royals on the north side of the border. The […]
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 […]
After a chilly night at the Royal Hotel Capertee, it was time for the Tour to venture on up into the Lower Hunter on a lovely Saturday’s morning to the Royal Hotel Denman. I was still a bit under the weather but I bravely soldiered on. Given that he was more on top of his […]
