beer
Breakfast Beers?
I was at Champagne Breakfast function recently and was looked down on for ordering a beer. I’ve never claimed to be fashionable , and often consider myself to be somewhat outside of normal social traditions. But I can’t work out for the life of me why it is that beer at breakfast is seen as unacceptable when Champers, some spirits (Gin for example), or cocktails (Bloody Marys) are? When I started...
Beer Types
My how things have changed. I remember when I first started sneaking into the back bar at the Centenary Hotel for a beer. Those days it was pretty easy, it was VB, XXXX or Gold on tap. It made it a little easier to not get busted. Gone are the days of only having XXXX Bitter or Gold on tap, these days you ask for a beer menu. And, the beer-toff in me, think it’s for the better, especially if you t...
Happy 150th Birthday Chimay and Coopers
It’s remarkable how the stars can align sometimes. With a remarkable, almost what could be referred to as biblical timing, it turns out that two of my favourite brewers are celebrating their 150th anniversaries this year. Both Coopers Brewery in Adelaide and Chimay – brewed by Trappist Monks in Belgium – both started way back in 1862. Both were also started by men of religion too. Thomas Coo...
Redoak Brewery
It’s always good to see an Aussie company do well on the world stage. Just recently I was impressed by the work the guys at ENDEAVOUR True Vintage beer had done by taking out a second place in the Pale Category at the World Beer Cup in America. This is the stuff dreams are made off, winning a medal at an event that is the Olympics of Beer brewing, a competition that is only run every second year a...
Save the World!
I went camping for St.Patricks Day to catch up with a few mates a few weeks ago. It was a little wet so most of the time was spent chatting, and while we were having a few beers a thought hit me like a lightning bolt out of the blue: “As a Nation of Beer drinkers, we have it within our power to stop the collapse of foreign nations from national debt, by the simple action of…drinking beer” T...
Camping Drinks
Ahh ‘tis the New Year and I’m busy marking off all the long weekends with camping and fishing. And with that in mind I thought I’d share my top Four FOR Camping. These are just something a little different from taking the usual Bundy or Bourbon or UDL. Things that just help to make more room; are lighter or just make things go easier while the kids are fighting, the boat won’t start and the sand f...
Millers Genuine Draught
While wandering through my local bottleshop the other day trying to find something to refresh my dry and dulled tastebuds, I saw Millers Genuine Draught out of the corner of my eye and thought to myself “gee…haven’t tried that in a long time”. I don’t have a great memory, probably too many beers over the years, but when I got home and cracked open the first of the carton, the reasons why I h...