One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
