Live on Delwood Beach, Manly. Highlight of the day is generally the half hour on the back of the Ferry where the big issues are worked through. Have lived in Beijing, NW Fairlight, Brisbane, Cleveland, South Kensington (SW7), PNG and Sydney. Love sport, beer, bars and the insular peninsula.
Author: bladdamasta
A Winter Beer Festival – Trains and Beer
It is the last weekend of what has felt like a pretty cold winter in Sydney. Fortunately for the organisers of the first annual Winter Beer Festival, Sydney brought on a little piece of spring early and a cloudless day …
Bledisloe Cup Blues, All Blacks, Wallabies and Speights Distinction
I used to love my Rugby Union. I really, really loved it. Whether it was bike riding to TG Millner for each Eastwood home game, hoovering up news articles about the Wallabies, Waratahs and Woodies, organising and playing for Sloths …
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Induction – John #40
John Tonight’s induction almost didn’t happen. Sydney turned on a crazy weather day today. At one stage, it was apparently 29 degrees. Remember – this is winter. A wild win hit in the afternoon, which had that tropical, humid feel …
A “Classic” Michelada and Baja Blond
This correspondent has been away from the family for a few nights. In addition, on a recent visit to the hippest new place in Manly, I only took one daughter. Another was not amused. So to make amends – a …
Temple Brewing and Oatmeal Stout
There is so much action happening on such a frequent occurrence in the Australian craft beer scene, that august journals like The Crafty Pint and Australian Brews News (can a journal be digital?) can barely squeeze all the news in. …
Copping a tip, Penny Blue and Leader of the Pack IPA
Tipples Beer is Back of the Ferry’s favourite beer blog, and recently he posted about a relatively new beer bar in Melbourne. Given that Tipples’ home town is Melbourne, and his knowledge of a good beer is prodigious, it is …
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A sixpack of @Untappd uniques ending up on a Defibrillator
As mentioned in a recent blog, this correspondent went on mini pub crawl – ending up at the Hart’s Pub trivia night. As mentioned in another recent blog, a couple of blokes are looking at doing a different beer a …
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The New Brighton Hotel and Southern Hemisphere Harvest
For as long as this correspondent has been drinking in Manly, I’ve always given The New Brighton Hotel (aka the NBH) a wide berth. Even in the 80s, when the original Hotel Manly was around – it was anywhere but …
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Chica Bonita, Mexicali and Negra Modelo
Not for one moment will this BotF correspondent pretend to be an expert on things Mexican. I have, however, been fortunate enough to briefly visit a small portion of a country in which I would like to spend a far …
Orion Draught Beer and York Lane, West Wynyard
The Sydney CBD is a pretty large area that isn’t really broken up into areas or localities. Other than The Rocks or Millers Point, which still share the same postcode as Sydney, there aren’t really names for areas. You might …
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