Barefoot Drinker
Chimay Tripel White Label
Ahh…another week, another Chimay beer taste. This week I delved back heaven sent beers that are from the Chimay Trappist Monastery and popped the top of the Chimay Tripel, also known as Chimay White, because of the label colour. It is essentially the middle beer in the very excellent Chimay range that varies in alcoholic content, and price, from Red to White onto their top beer the Blue labe...
Penfolds Bin 389 and 407 2010 releases
I was looking at the Port Douglas Carnivale website the other day and noticed that it mentioned they will feature the first ever North Queensland release of the Penfolds Bin 389 and Bin 407 wines. This will be Queensland’s first public release of the “baby Grange” outside of Brisbane. This would be an awesome way of trying these wines along with several others all matched to fine food…..I’d book a...
Chimay Red Label – God’s Gift to Mankind
A word of warning on this column, if you are more interested paying your bills than drinking quality beer, then there is not much point in reading on….however, if you’re quite willing to relive your University/Apprenticeship lifestyle and only eat instant noodles for a week in order save enough to have a few beers on Friday night, then read on…. After nearly 40 years I’ve managed to wo...
Beer Rant – up on my soapbox
Beer is remarkable. It can raise emotions and opinions in the same way as politics and religion. People who drink beer generally have a view on the it. Sometimes it’s the ad’s, more-often it’s the over-all brand or price, often quite oft handed responses like “oh they make shite beers” Last year I reviewed Summer Bright Lager, that column was criticised, labelling my reacti...
Bundaberg Royal Liqueur
I haven’t tried a Bundaberg Rum product in about a decade; I stopped drinking it when I worked out that I had a love/hate relationship with it. I loved drinking the stuff and it loved making me hate everyone. You see everyone I know falls into one of two categories when drinking rum: you’re either a lover, or a fighter…and I can tell you that I don’t look like George Clooney…then agai...
Coopers 62 Pilsner
“Just because you are the tallest pigmy in the tribe it doesn’t make you a giant”. The way I interpret that saying is that no matter how good you think you are, there will always be someone out there better than you, so be a bit humble. Those words sprang to mind when I tried this week’s Drop, “Coopers 62 Pilsner”. This is an epic fail from a brewery that often performs better, what were they thin...
XXXX Summer Bright Lager
Gee, the big boys of brewing must spend some money on marketing research. Working out when to release a beer, how to market it, what to make it look like and so on. The team at XXXX for example couldn’t have got their new low carb release “XXXX Summer Bright Lager” any more spot on for timing and appearance… perhaps they should have spent the same amount on creating a better taste though. T...