One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
Good morning all. This is just a short post to let you know John and I are embarking on the next leg of our Royal Tour on the weekend of November 26/27th. Given some favourable geography, we should be able to add a full 11 Royals to our tally. This trip will include a 50km […]
The next stop on the Royal Tour was our destination for the evening: the Royal Hotel Singleton. The Royal Hotel Singleton is very much a standard type of Royal Hotel. And I don’t mean that in a negative way at all. We’re on a mission to hit almost 140 Royal Hotels on this quest and […]
From Spring Ridge, we ventured an hour down the road to a marginally larger town and our next stop on the Royal Tour: the Royal Hotel Murrurundi. Pulling up, our first thought was that this may be the shmickest looking royal we’ve hit so far. Apparently it used to be a Cobb & Co Coach […]
The next stop on the Royal Tour was in our smallest town to date with an official population of under 400: the Royal Hotel Spring Ridge. We had a bit of an adventure navigating some flooded backroads between Manilla and Spring Ridge. But after retreating to the main highways and taking a chance on the […]
The next stop on the Royal Tour was our northernmost venture to date (which really isn’t all that far north): the Royal Hotel Manilla. I had been through Manilla a couple of times over the years for work, but never really spent much time there. We got into town a bit early for a beer […]
The second Royal on the trip up to Tamworth was the Royal Hotel Scone. The “Horse Capital of Australia” is tucked right up against the Great Dividing Range and is home to a proper old school Royal Hotel. It’s probably the most old school Royal Hotel we’ve visited so far. The bar itself (i.e. the […]
A few weeks back John and I officially commence the second weekend of the Royal Tour. The weekend was largely built around a road trip up to Tamworth to watch the my Sharks demoralise John’s Tigers, but it also presented a brilliant opportunity to check several more Royals off of our list. The first Royal […]
The last stop on the initial weekend of the Royal Tour was the Royal Hotel Queanbeyan. For those that may be unaware, Queanbeyan is just on the NSW side of the border from Canberra and the ACT. It’s not the hugest tourist draw, but a fairly pleasant place to stop in. John and I stopped […]
The Royal Tour rolls on (a total of 20km down the road from the first stop in Adelong) to the Royal Hotel Tumut. Tumut has a surprisingly large number of pubs for a town if its size (we counted 5, not including the brewery). But the Royal Tumut appears to be the place to be […]
The Royal Tour has begun with the Royal Hotel, Adelong. This small town on the Snowy Mountains Highway in southern New South Wales, was officially the first stop on The Royal Tour and the first step on an epic quest. I’d been through Adelong a couple times over the course of my work, but this […]
