Cricketers Arms

Best of 2017

The jolly fat bloke with the white beard and the red suit has gone, the smoke from the New Year’s fireworks has passed, so it means that I’m due for a Best of 2017. I get to see so many different labels and brands over a year, it makes it very difficult to pick a best of anything, however I’ve gone back over my jumbled mess of notes and come up with I thought were the best that I tried this year. ...

Cricketers Arms Session Ale

Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed Cricketers Arms popping up again and again on my friends Facebook posts, not sure whether it’s been on special or whether they have finally just decided to get on board a beer that only a few years ago I reviewed here and said “it would be worth keeping an eye on”. Cricketers Arms has been around since 2007. Originally only a handful of bars in Melbourne were w...

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 ...

Cricketers Arms

Ahh the Test Cricket has returned to our TV screens. As enjoyable as watching the Matador Cup and the International One Day matches have been, it’s just not the same as watching an International Test. Especially when we are playing the Poms. Yes, I’m one of those tragics that can spend five days at a field watching grown men chase a little red ball around a field, throw it back to another bloke wh...

Lost Password