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
Badlands Brewery Dark London Porter & Maredsous Brune
Sydney’s cold snap is really conducive to drinking dark beers. It’s a tad oxymoronic or paradoxical, that you’d seek warmth by drinking a cold beer, but when a fine dark beer goes to work on your insides an inner fire …
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BotF is there at the historic opening of Murray’s at Manly
It is very rare to be at the opening of an icon. Imagine being at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge or the Sydney Opera House, the first passenger on the Manly Ferry, the first customer at Rockpool or …
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Never follow a Schofferhofer Hefeweizen with a Cintra Pilsner
A coincidental early mark for illiards and bladdamasta meant an opportunity to enjoy a ferry trip home in the sunlight. Sydney is freezing at the moment, and the night time BotF is only for the saltiest of old seadogs. The …
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Guinness Black Lager, Sierra Nevada Porter and Harts Pub Happy Hours
Hart’s Pub has rocketed to the top of BotF’s affections in more ways than one. It is rare that BotF can turn up to a pub within a two KM radius of Circular Quay and find a beer that BotF …
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The beer treatment of fans at Australian sporting events – it sucks
This correspondent had the good fortune to be in Melbourne on a Friday night and took the opportunity to visit Melbourne’s newest football venue – AAMI Park. BotF always prefers referring to stadia by their non commercial name, but this …
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Tuborg Green, DAB and Bob Geldof
BotF was very excited when Tony from Toowoomba graced our shores and indeed the Back of the Ferry. Swept up in the excitement was a review of Tuborg Green, which upon reflection was very terse and very harsh. With it …
Birra Moretti, Fairy Bower and SUPs
A great afternoon’s spectating can be had on the headland overlooking Fairy Bower when the surf is up and the surfing herd is out. There was at least 100 surfers and boogie boarders in the water on Sunday arvo and …
Samuel Adams Summer Ale on an almost Summer Day
Sunday morning on the insular peninsula (aka Sydney’s Northern Beaches) has seen a solid swell pounding the coastline. When the sun is out, which it has been for extended periods, it is warm and getting a summery feel. When the …
Collaroy Pub Crawl – doesn’t take long
For a number of years this correspondent has driven past a complex of grand facades on Pittwater Road at Collaroy on Sydney’s Northern Beachs. Occasionally when A Hog’s Breath occupied the Northern facade, we’d stop in, but I never frequented …
Mad Brewers Scribbly Gum and Tooheys Red Bitter
Illiards has reviewed Mad Brewers Scribbly Gum lager before. I only realised this when I’d returned to Sydney, but I felt that this beer porn was too good to waste. I’ve got to say that in this instance the porn …
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