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...
I like Australian-isms, I really do. I have a tendency to use sayings, most of them inappropriate, call people by names, and use a lot of rhyming slang for things. I was even trying to bring back the word “cobber” there for a while….till I heard KRudd use it whilst being interviewed. But it was this that made me stop a few years ago and notice the beers from Mildura Brewery, one of their reg...
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...