One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
And we’re back! After a months long break, it was finally time to hit the road again and get back on the Royal Tour! It seems like forever ago since we had our last Royal beer way back in Armidale. But we hit the road once again, heading back to Queensland and the Royal Hotel […]
Editor’s Note: This post was written by John’s old mate, presumably my future mate, and Tour guest Turner. Despite missing out on Beenleigh earlier in the day, he joined us for the Royal Hotel Nundah. This has been slightly edited for length and to reduce the number of references to us as ‘idiots’. So as […]
After leaving Kalbar for the city and recovering from our night out at the footy, we dragged ourselves out of bed and headed for another morning Royal at the Royal Hotel Beenleigh. Some pubs we get to in the morning hours are a little bit iffy as to whether or not they’ll actually be open […]
After leaving our new biker friends in Harrisville, we headed off on a short drive down the road to our next Royal, the Royal Hotel Kalbar. After enduring the 20km trek from Harrisville we arrived at the Royal Hotel Kalbar. Kalbar is a nice little town, a fair bit bigger than Harrisville. Kalbar’s Royal wasn’t […]
After departing Gatton (relieved in the knowledge that their Keno was once again operational), we headed to the next stop on the Tour, the Royal Hotel Harrisville After the slightly club-y big town Royals at Gatton and Toowoomba, we were looking forward to another small town Royal. When we arrived, the pub looked pretty much […]
After regrettably having to depart Tunna and his Royal Hotel Meandarra, we headed three hours east to our next destination on the Tour, the Royal Hotel Toowoomba. After being in small country towns with populations barely in the hundreds for the past couple days, it was certainly a bit different to pull into Toowoomba. It […]
After a really good night in Leyburn (salad shaming aside), we headed off for the next stop on the Tour: the Royal Hotel Meandarra. Before heading straight to Meandarra we had one due-diligence stop to make. From everything I could tell, I was pretty sure the Royal Hotel Inglewood was closed. But we figured we […]
After finishing off all of the Royals in Victoria with Koo Wee Rup, it was time for our first foray into Queensland with the Royal Hotel Leyburn. We were joined on this leg of the Tour by veteran of the Parkes leg and noted Fireball afficionado Bert. Bert and I arrived into Brisbane a bit […]
Rank: #11 Location: Burleigh Heads, QLD Favourite Beers: Hornet IPA, Super Hornet IIPA, G.O.A.T. Hazy IPA Previous Blog Appearances: Hornet IPA For the next brewery on the list, we go to Queensland for the first time for Cory’s Top 20 – #11 Black Hops Brewery. I haven’t been lucky enough to get to Black Hops […]
For this week’s beer, we go back to Queensland for just the second time. Black Hops Brewing from the Gold Coast does some killer beers, but my favourite I’ve had the opportunity to try is their Hornet IPA. This beer is super hoppy, but not in an upfront, kick-you in the teeth hoppy kind of […]
