One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
First off, apologies as this post has been slightly delayed by the festive season. But we will endeavour to get back on schedule and keep up a steady flow of Royal Hotel and beer/brewery posts flowing in 2023. So without further ado, welcome to the second edition of the Royal Rantings of John guest posts. […]
Editor’s Note: the posts for the next leg of the Royal Tour, starting with the Royal Hotel Manildra will be written my John Weekes. The opinions expressed are his own and not (necessarily reflective) of those held by the editor. Please direct all disapproval to him personally. I will however, still accept all credit for […]
The next Royal was the last for this leg of the tour. Weekend number 2 of the Royal Tour encompassed over 1,200km, 8 Royals, 3 days, and 1 thumping Sharks victory over the Tigers. The final stop on the second official weekend of the tour also happened to be the closest to home: the Royal […]
The next (and second last) Royal on this particular leg of the Royal Tour was the Royal Hotel Wyong. This was our first and only stop on the Central Coast for the tour as there’s a surprising lack of Royals in the Sydney to Newcastle stretch. We stopped in at 11:00 am on a Monday […]
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 […]
