Wild Palm on a Wild Night

A quorum on a Tuesday night saw BotF brave a wild and woolly night on Sydney Harbour. For the first 15 minutes we faced a stiff breeze, but no rain. Off Clifton Gardens the rain hit and despite trying both sides of the boat, we could not avoid the rain. Charlie’s expression in the photo shows the bracing nature of the wind. There was also the excitement of a decent rolling swell. We almost asked for frequent flyer’s access to the crew’s cabin.

The beer drunk on our journey was Palma Louca, which translated, has the vaguely relevant name to tonight’s journey of “Wild Palm”. Palma Louca is apparently still brewed in Brazil but it now part of one of the biggest brewing/beverage companies in the world – Heineken + a Mexican company called FERMA. There are two websites named Palma Louca. The first one highlighted has nothing to do with beer, but is a blog about Life in Brazil. The second actually talks about beer. What it talks about is crap. “My name is Palma Louca, and that should say something about me: I’m blonde, sparkling, easy to get, and lots of fun for little money”. Palma Louca is pale, fizzy, easy to get down and is actually quite cheap at Mr Liquor. A case of these on Copacabana wouldn’t go astray, but this ain’t anything special. Still, one of only two Brazilian beers reviewed on BotF.