Mountain Goat – Hightail Ale
Mountain Goat. One of Australia’s craft pioneers has just turned fifteen and lets face it, that is basically ancient in today’s craft terms. But as...
Category: Reviews
To Øl – Final Frontier
Normally when I review, I like to stick to local beers (and by local I mean Australia and New Zealand). There are a few reasons...
La Sirene – Wild Saison
Wild Saison. Two words that instantly grab my interest. When I learned that La Sirene, a recent addition to the Australian beer landscape, were releasing...
IPA Day 2012 – Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Ok ok, I said recently that I had something special planned for IPA Day 2012. Last year I did 5 reviews and this year I had hoped...
Rediscovering Josie Bones – Good Beer Week
This was a piece originally intended for Oz Brews News but got lost amongst the hustle and bustle of Good Beer Week. While it’s about...
Matso’s Broome Brewery – Ginger Beer
Ginger beer… lets face it, it’s not really beer. Whatever, I’ll drink it anyway. The Basics Matso’s is a brewery in Broome Australia. They have...
Free House and Mussel Inn (Happy Jackal)
On our recent trip to NZ, we didn’t make it to all the breweries we would have liked but one bar almost compensated for all...
Blenheim – New Zealand
I visited Blenheim, as a youth, to play rugby. I don’t really remember too much about it… we probably got beaten, it was probably cold…...
West Coast Brewing – A small town case study
It’s been enlightening visiting my home town the last few days. Growing up, we always had a brewery which a very small number of locals...
Moon Dog – Henry Ford’s Girthsome Fjord
Moon Dog, those crazy new kids on the block. I had hoped to get my hands on a bottle of their Perverse Sexual Amalgam, a...
