News Wrap – November
This month’s news wrap! The first. Get psyched. Boatrocker On the back of their barrel room opening, we’ve seen a bunch of new beers from Boatrocker....
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New Site – New Outlook
For the last six or so years, this has been a hobby for me – both the blog and more recently the podcast. It all...
Restaurant Review: Hawker Hall, Melbourne
Hawker Hall is the new restaurant from Melbourne restaurant powerhouse Chris Lucas. With flagship restaurant Chin Chin still commanding queues on a daily basis,...
A naive snob’s perspective part II: I worry
Today it was announced that Mountain Goat brewery was to be bought out by Asahi. Today two pioneers of modern beer in Australia have finally...
A naive snob’s perspective: Big business and selling out
Right now we are watching the beer industry go through all sorts of massive change and as “craft” beer growth continues the massive multi-national beer...
Bright Brewery – Stubborn Russian (2015)
Right now in the US barely an adjunct stout is released without a line out the door and tales of people hiring homeless people to...
Little Creatures Dog Days – The Australian tweener rolls on
The new Little Creatures seasonal release is a 4.4% “Summer Beer”. Or in other words; their new “tweener”. tweener ˈtwiːnə/ noun US informal noun: tweener; plural noun: tweeners 1....
Podcast ‘sode 46: Julie from Craft Revolution
This week we speak to Julie Hancock from Craft Revolution, a new importer bringing in beers from Red Hook, Kona and Widmer Brothers. The three...
Podcast ‘sode 45: We sell out… and then chew on microphone for a bit
We gab a bit about the local beer industry and what want to see from the players, big and small. Not much more to it...
Podcast ‘sode 44: Branding with Damian Kelly and Emma Bemrose
We invited branding expert Damian Kelly and graphic designer Emma Bemrose to tell us all about big beer branding and how it’s done. Damian played...
