One man's ongoing love letter to hoppy beverages
After finishing our schooners at the Royal Hotel Benalla we grabbed lunch at the highly recommended local bakery and were back on the road. After a quick petrol stop in Violet Town (home of Killing Heidi for all of you Australian rock aficionados) we were on our way to the next stop on the Royal […]
And we’re back. After a holiday break, the blog returns with the start of the first interstate trip of the Royal Tour. For this leg, John and I were joined by our good mate Anthony. Anthony was present on the first night that the Royal Tour was conceived of, but had up to this point […]
Just taking a quick aside from the Royal Tour for a brief dalliance with the actual original mission of this blog: calling out awesome beers and breweries! Rest assured the next Royal Hotel write up will still be arriving next week as scheduled. But I just wanted to take a moment to share a beer […]
This week the blog takes a return trip to Melbourne. We go to a brewery that has thus far been criminally overlooked by the blog: 3 Ravens Brewery. The good people at 3 Ravens make a number of excellent beers and have a cool name based on Norse mythology. Further, 3 Ravens, is apparently the […]
This week we’re heading down to a favourite of the blog: Dainton Brewery in Melbourne. This time it’s for their brilliant Amplifier Hazy IPA. Dainton has been featured a fair bit on this blog for their funky beers (see Pickle Dan and B’easter Egg). But Amplifier is a firm reminder that these guys aren’t just […]
This week we return to a favourite brewery of the blog (and #9 in the recent to 20), Dainton Brewery. Dainton primarily make two types of beer: awesome hoppy varieties of IPA’s, and weird, funky out-there concoctions. And the quality of the former, often convinces me to try more of the weird stuff than I […]
Rank: #9 Location: Carrum Downs, VIC (Melbourne) Favourite Beers: DIPA, The Raider Single Hop NEIPA, Shark Punch Tropical Aussie IPA Previous Blog Appearances: DIPA, Pickle Dan Reuben Rye Ale Number 9 on the list is surprisingly the first Victorian brewery as well. I may have overlooked a few down there, but we’re too deep into […]
This week’s beer comes once again from Melbourne’s Hawkers Beer. Previously this blog featured Hawkers’ Freedom Units Triple NEIPA. This beer is almost as far away on the beer spectrum as possible. It’s officially the first baklava barley wine I’ve ever had (and I’m guessing it’d be yours too) and it’s awesome and it’s called […]
For this week’s beer we head down to Melbourne (figuratively of course) for Hawkers Beer’s brilliant Freedom Units Triple NEIPA. I’ve meant to write about this one for a little while now. To be honest it was probably hurt by the fact that I had it just after the staggeringly good Sunrise Valley Hazy and […]
This week’s beer is the simply named, but also simply delicious Red IPA from Victoria’s Bad Shepherd Brewing Co. As anyone who’s glanced at the blog would know, a red IPA is my personal favourite genre of beer by a decent margin. So I can be admittedly a little picky with which ones I enjoy […]
