2014
St Hugo The Unspoken Promise 2014
Last year St. Hugo released the first annual release in their decade long “Legacy Collection”, a collection of super premium wines that will vary from year to year in varieties, blends etc. The Legacy Collection pays homage to the rich and compelling stories of the Gramp family, particularly Hugo Gramp who was killed in the Kyeema air crash in 1938. Not only did the crash take the life of Gramp wh...
VB – Raise a Glass
It was ANZAC day last week, and I want to give VB their annual wrap for supporting the Raise a Glass appeal. VB and CUB have received a bit of bad press for this initiative, which I don’t understand, I’m more than happy to see them throw a million dollars of their own money per year supporting the RSL and Legacy. I realise that other breweries raise and donate to charities, but on a personal front...
Australia Day 2014, Music and beer
The beer industry is in a funny sort of spot lately. The average consumption of beer is decreasing, but yet the growth in craft beer has never been more active than it is now. There has been more craft breweries pop up over the course of the last few years than there are pimples on a teenage school boy. One of my mates recently said it was kind of like the music scene during the late 70’s and earl...