burleigh brewing
Look on the lager side of life
Strewth it’s been warm in FNQ the last few weeks, even with the rain we’ve had its still been stinking hot. So hot in fact that I’ve found it changes my beer drinking habits. I’m on record as saying that I prefer the fuller flavoured beers, which in Australian beers generally means the beers in the ale spectrum, but it’s been so hot of late that I’ve found that I can only have one or two of those ...
Wheat Beers
When I first started Beer Judging the beers that scared me the most were wheat beers, particularly the homebrewed ones. Often they were too sweet and had an uncooked bread dough-like taste. It often wasn’t limited to just the homebrew category either; even up to a few years ago some of the craft beer offerings were decidedly less than average. But things have changed for the better. With the craft...
Little Creatures IPA
A little while ago Little Creatures was bought out by Lion Nathan. At the time I was concerned that it would mean the slow death of Little Creatures, that the takeover by the corporate giant would change the brewery’s focus. Lion didn’t, at the time, have a great track record for pushing their craft beers. But Lion, to their credit, have let Little Creatures run their own race, and have not played...
Burleigh Brewing BIGHEAD
I have a pretty thick skin when it comes to people pointing out my flaws. Perhaps it’s because I’m already aware of so many of my own shortcomings that I’ve just gone on to accepting them and become immune. Frankly I’ve never really understood why people – men and women alike – can’t go through life loving who they are and not obsessing over the way they look, trying to fit a mould that has been s...