One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
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 […]
Before continuing on with tales from our next leg of the Royal Tour, I wanted to throw in one more beer review. That beer is the absolutely brilliant Huddle for Warmth DIPA from Bracket Brewing in Alexandria in Sydney. Yet another awesome brewery waving the craft beer flag for the Inner West. I’ve had a couple of […]
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 […]
Fresh off of our extremely pleasant surprise at the Royal Hotel Ryde, the Royal Tour rolled on through the suburbs of middle Sydney. ‘Who knows’, we thought, ‘maybe Sydney’s heavily concreted central suburbs were actually hiding a trove of hidden gems’. Then we arrived at the Royal Hotel Granville. From the outside it looked nice […]
Editor’s Note: With John off on an overseas jaunt, this will be his last post until his return. So enjoy it while you can as I’ll be back on posting duties from here on out. First stop on todays section of the Royal/I don’t feel like a beer so early Tour was the Royal Hotel […]
After a longer than anticipated delay, we continue our series on the Royal Hotels of Sydney as told by John. This week John takes aim at the Royal Hotel Darlington. I’ve had some good times at this one during my uni days, but John was unimpressed (to be fair, justifiably so on the day). But […]
Continuing on from Randwick, the Royal Tour ventured into the posh confines of the Royal Hotel Paddington. Once again John picks up the tale for this post. So I leave you in his mostly capable narrative hands. The Royal Hotel Paddington was our third Royal of the day, fourth of the weekend. The crowd (mob) […]
We left the strict seating regulations of the Royal Hotel Bondi behind and continued on to the next stop on the tour, the Royal Hotel Randwick. We were joined on this leg of the tour by a couple of guests. The first was Cameron the Resch’s Ravager. The second was second-time guest Jordy. Or at […]
After a night where we had perhaps had one or two too many in Leichhardt, the Sydney leg of the Royal Tour continued. So after a restorative breakfast, we gathered ourselves like the true warriors we are and set course (with our slightly sore heads) for the Royal Hotel Bondi. As I’ve mentioned previously on […]
