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.
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Qantas lounge needs the Yak. @matildabaybrew
The beer list at Qantas Clubs has taken a major dive. Not long ago you could endure a flight delay by getting the occasional Fat Yak from @Matildabaybeer. Now the photo shows what is available. Disappointing. Qantas needs to check …
Stone Beer and #IPADay
Stone & Wood has made a couple of appearances on Back of the Ferry. That’s as many as they’ve been able to make as they keep it pretty simple up in Byron. Generally Stone & Wood make two beers – …
Shirt Bar and Floris Apple beer
An unlikely area of Sydney that has benefitted from the introduction of small bars is the pocket west of Wynyard and north of King Street. This formerly drab part of town has also seen the development of a large number …
ALDI Beer – cheap piss, and the demise of Cartlon Dry Fusion Black
The last beer discovery in Canberra was made at the Canberra Central branch of ALDI. In NSW, we are not able to buy alcohol in a supermarket. Whilst there are many bottle shops adjacent to a supermarket, none are part …
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Zierholz Premium Brewery and Mild Autumn Ale
Other than the Wig & Pen, the big beer discovery in Canberra was the Zierholz Premium Brewery. This is harder to discover than the Wig & Pen, because the backblocks of Fyshwick are the last place one would expect to …
Kooinda Pale Ale
A week may pass before this correspondent can grace the Back of the Ferry. Unfortunately the closest I can get to water is a view of the upside down river that is the Yarra. Fortunately I found a bottleshop nearby …
Plonk bottlo, Tusker Lager and Jelen Pivo
According to Wikipedia, Fyshwick is known for its adult entertainment industry and as one of two suburbs in Canberra where prostitution is legal. That entry will have to be updated as it is also the home of 3 interesting sources …
Kembery Regional Ale
As I write this post I am sitting on the side of the Hume Highway 2kms north of the Avon Dam Road bridge aka the middle of nowhere aka much longer I’ve ever intended to spend near Bargo. The clanking …
1842 from the Stricklands Beer Group
BotF is staying the Brassey Hotel in Barton, Canberra, which has a bar reminiscent of the bar in the Minder. It is the last place I’d expect to find a beer I hadn’t tried before. 1842 is so far the …
Firey Aztec and the Wig and Pen
This correspondent is in Canberra for a couple of days doing the whole Questacon, Australian Museum caper during school holidays. With the sprogs safely tucked away, I was able to duck off to one of two microbreweries in our Nation’s …
back of the ferry 