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Growlers in the Gong
The first ever official growler sold by the Illawarra Brewing Company. At least I think it is. Like many good beer fans in the Illawarra, I’ve long been hoping for the Illawarra Brewing Company to...
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GABS beer list
Ever since the GABS beer list was finalised about a week or so ago, I’ve been trying to work out which ones I have to try. At first glance, I ended up with at least 40 beers to try, but I thought that...
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The Session #75: The Business of Brewing
The Session (aka Beer Blogging Friday) is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic. This...
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A perfect pale ale
Three years ago my wife and I went up to the Hunter Valley and paid a visit to the Hunter Beer Company. This was back in the day before I was a beer obsessive who crapped on about it in his own blog,...
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Trouble at the Temple
I came to the Temple Brewing Company beers a bit late in the piece, compared to many other beer geeks. I knew of them but – stupidly – I decided I didn’t like their labels and so opted to have nothing...
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Happy with The Hangman
When I started out on this beer loving caper, I never understood why some breweries chose to put their stuff into kegs and didn’t bother with bottling it. To me, they seemed all kinds of crazy because...
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I miss Monteith’s
It breaks my heart a little bit to see what has happened to Monteith’s because I used to think they were something special. Lets go back to 2003 and my then-girlfriend now-wife and I went to New...
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Melbourne Beer Trip – Day One
Beer Deluxe in Fed Square – it looks far to big for me to be unable to find on previous trips to Melbourne. But I couldn’t find it. Honest. I flew back home on Sunday after a lightening-quick visit of...
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Drinking with The Posse
After about a year of umming and ahhing, I finally signed up to the Bridge Road Brewers Posse earlier this year. The Posse is basically a wine club, but with beer replacing the wine. So every three...
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Tap Takeover is tops
It is perhaps a sign of my beer obsession that I was first in line to get into the 20 Tap Takeover at the Illawarra Brewery yesterday. Arrived there 15 minutes early and stood outside the venue doing...
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My American beer mule
Here’s what’s good: Having a brother who has to make regular trips to the US for work. And he’s willing to mule some beer for me. Here’s what’s not so good: He’ll only bring back a bottle or two for...
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Independence Day
It’s the Fourth of July today so it made sense to write about an American beer. A look through the beers in the garage revealed the only one I had from the States was Blue Moon’s Belgian Wit. Well,...
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Look! It’s another lager!
Shhh, listen carefully. Can you hear it? The cries of beer drinkers wishing that one of the big breweries would come out with yet another lager. What? You can’t hear them? Yep, me neither. Yet despite...
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Dubbel not worth the trouble
When it comes to Sierra Nevada beers, this is easily the most unusual- looking. Firstly, it comes under cork and features labelling to make it look way older than it really is. Then there’s the...
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Tap King a real innovation
Never underestimate the power of Twitter. A little while ago I’d banged on in a few tweets about how I wished Lion would hurry up and send me one of their new-fangled Tap King systems to review,...
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It’s YouTubesday!
In 2007, the LifeStyle Channel ran a series on the King George IV hotel in Picton. Called The Pub With One Beer, it told the story of two 22-year-olds who bought the pub off brewing legend Geoff...
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Drinking Dan’s Dry
Okay, so it didn’t take too long to discover a hiccup in my Drinking Dan’s Dry* quest. That came in the form of the Grand Ridge gift pack. There are a few beers in this pack that are not sold as...
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The Thursday quote
“Here is that number, as this magazine goes to press: 1,528. That’s how many breweries were in the planning stages in the United States at the start of May, according to the Brewers Association, craft...
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A history of Coopers
Jolly Good Ale and Old – Coopers Brewery 1862-2012 Alison Painter, Tim Cooper and Rob Linn Published by Coopers Brewery One of many things I’ve learned in my two decades as a journalist is this – just...
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Australian Beer History Week – Day Six
When it came to choosing a Western Australian brewery to write about, the decision was difficult because there are two very important ones to choose from. One the one hand there’s Matilda Bay, who were...
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