Category: Commentary

7 May, 2014

Melbourne’s Good Beer Week 2014 – Foodie Picks

In the first of a Good Beer Week Series, I’ve gone through this year’s Good Beer Week guide and picked out some events that I...

Beer Basics / Commentary

7 Apr, 2014

Beer Basics: Starting and Keeping a Cellar

Cellar It’s a word thrown around beer drinkers pretty loosely isn’t it, I’ve used it when all I had was a cardboard box in a...

Commentary

19 Feb, 2014

Quality Control

Ever sent a beer back? How’d it go? Nerve racking? Liberating? I’ve sent beer back. I’ve never had a barman agree with me and always...

Commentary

2 Feb, 2014

Heady Topper – A refreshing video

I came across a link to this video of John Kimmich, of The Alchemist brewery, explaining some of the questions around the relatively hard to...

Commentary

1 Feb, 2014

FOMOOB – Fear of Missing Out on Beer

FOMO: Fear of missing out or FOMO is a form of social anxiety — a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity for social interaction, a novel experience, profitable...

Commentary / Reviews

23 Jan, 2014

The Stories of Ken Grossman and Luca Turin

There’s something exciting about people who have passion, enthusiasm and the willingness to take risks to produce the best they can. Two people who I...