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Real World Tastings

I often remark on here about how when we taste wine around at our regular “Wet Wednesday” sessions that its quite different from how we judge a wine, or beers for that fact, at competitions.  At a Wine Show you are taking a sip of the wine, aerating it a bit, and spitting, you’re looking at colour, flavour profiles, tannin and acid structure, mouthfeel and finish to name just a few points. Jotting...

World Series Cricket Beers.

Way back in the 70’s a movement happened that made a lot of us sit up and take notice….One Day Cricket was born. During the 80’s it evolved to 50overs, C’mon Aussie C’mon ruled the playground chants, not to mention shooting to number one in 1979. This was back when tough men wielded the willow; they were moustachioed, smoked and didn’t cry (well not till a bloke called Kimberley Hughes decid...

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...

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