One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
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 a really good night out in Toowoomba we headed off, admittedly with slightly bleary heads, we headed off for our next stop at the Royal Hotel Gatton. Firstly I will admit that we were slightly distracted for our visit to Gatton. We found out over breakfast that our AirBnB in Brisbane for Saturday night […]
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 […]
After departing the Royal in Drouin and its murderous history, we headed for our final Royal on this leg: the Royal Hotel Koo Wee Rup. Koo Wee Rup is a bit of a smaller town than Drouin was, but it seemed fairly nice as we drove in. It being a Sunday, around noon, it wasn’t […]
After visiting the slightly disappointing Ferntree Gully the previous day, we set out into Gippsland for the next Royal on this leg: the Royal Hotel Drouin. Drouin is a bit bigger of a town than I was expecting. But it had a very good vibe with big leafy streets and what looked like a fairly […]
After departing Mornington we headed further on towards our final Royal of the day, the Royal Hotel Ferntree Gully. Ferntree Gully is one of the far eastern suburbs of Melbourne that starts to go up into the Dandenong Ranges. It’s a nice part of Victoria so our hopes were high for the Royal Hotel Ferntree […]
As we’ve hit another 10 Royals, it’s time to update our running list of our favourites. These are our 10 favourite Royals of the first 80 we’ve visited. We have three brand new Royals joining the list this time around Just a reminder about our criteria: So here we go with our Top Ten Royal […]
After we departed the fantastic Royal at Queenscliff, we headed across the entrance to Port Phillip Bay and on to our next stop on the tour, the Royal Hotel Mornington. This leg involved another first: the first boat trip on the Tour. We took the ferry from Queenscliff across to Sorrento before heading up to […]
