One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
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 […]
After admiring the tiles one last time in Wallerawang, it was time to continue our tour. Just a short drive up the Castlereagh Highway was our destination for the night: the Royal Hotel Capertee. The drive up to Capertee takes you by the stunning Capertee Valley. And honestly, if you haven’t been, or seen it, […]
After departing the Royal Hotel Springwood, we completed our trek through the Blue Mountains. Just after coming out the other side we arrived at the next Royal for the tour, the Royal Hotel Wallerawang. The Wang (as I presume it must be affectionately referred to by locals) is a fairly small town with a big […]
After departing the last of the Sydney Royals in Richmond, we headed west into the Blue Mountains. As it was just about hitting lunchtime, we arrived at our third Royal for the day: the Royal Hotel Springwood. The pub is located on the main drag of Springwood directly across from the train station. And it […]
The next stop on this leg of the Royal Tour was the final one in Greater Sydney. Unless you count the Blue Mountains. In which case it would be the second last. But I don’t. So the last Royal in Greater Sydney was the Royal Hotel Richmond. By the time we had finished our beers […]
The next beer to feature is yet another return to Mountain Culture and the awesome beers they continually pump out. This time, it’s the legendary Zero Mississippi Triple IPA. If you’ve read the blog at all, you know one thing: I love hops. That and I’ve got something of an obsession with going to pubs […]
With the Royal Tour’s big smoke leg in our rearview mirror, it was time head back out to regional New South Wales. So naturally, the logical place to start this next leg was…Western Sydney. Our sojourn back out to the Central West started with a detour via the Royal Hotel Camden. With the excitement that […]
Before continuing on with tales from our next leg of the Royal Tour, I wanted to throw in one more beer review. That beer is the absolutely brilliant Huddle for Warmth DIPA from Bracket Brewing in Alexandria in Sydney. Yet another awesome brewery waving the craft beer flag for the Inner West. I’ve had a couple of […]
Finally it was time for the Big Smoke leg of the Royal Tour to come to an end. We departed the solidly acceptable confines of Carlton for our final stop on this leg of the tour: The Royal Hotel Sutherland. I would be lying if I said we rocked up to the Royal Hotel Sutherland […]
With our expectations sufficiently brought back down to earth, we departed Granville for the Royal Hotel Carlton. “Surely”, we reasoned, “this Royal is going to fall somewhere in between the extremes of Ryde and Granville”. It did. Yes, I do realise that is exceedingly lukewarm praise. But this was a lukewarm pub. But I mean […]
