Bars visited or discussed, whether on the BotF Bar Review Map or not
Category: Bars
The Rook and Kooinda Golden Ale
West Wynyard continues its unstoppable crusade to become the pocket of Sydney that has the largest number of cool, small bars. The latest one I’ve visited is The Rook – “rooftop at 56-58 york”. Like many West Wynyard bars it …
Frank’s Pizza and Moylander Double IPA
Generally, when I post I try to be positive. There’s enough good places and good beer and too little time to talk about bad experiences that there’s not much that I bag out. If that was the case, and this …
Invercargill Pitch Black, House on Hood, & The Tron
With a full two weeks in Aotearoa over the festive period, this correspondent took the opportunity to go on a short North Island road trip with the Mrs – “a holiday within a holiday” to use the popular cliché. From …
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St Johns Heineken Bar – NYE in Wellington
Quick game of word association…….how would you associate an ambulance and a bar? I bet you were thinking: drunken youths drinking way too much to the point of requiring medical attention in the form of an ambulance. However, this is …
What was Harold thinking and Mornington musings
I’ve always been partial to some Orstrayan rhyming slang, and there is no more quintessetially Orstrayan phrase than “doing the Harold Holt” ie leaving ie doing the bolt. It is named for Australia’s 17th Prime Minister, Harold Holt, who is …
Red Hill Brewery – Bucolic Beer Imbibing at its Best @redhillbrewery @gumbokitchen
The most important thing, in the first instance, about Red Hill Brewery was that it was open. The Mornington Peninsula is a deceptively big place. A drive from Sorrento to Red Hill is not a hop, skip and a jump …
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The Otways – a region of missed opportunities
Despite oppressive heat, I am loving Victoria. It is an easy State to drive around and for a first-timer other than Melbourne, there is so much to see. For the last couple of days we’ve been doing the Great Ocean …
Hanging Rock, Holgate Brewery and Empress
Mrs BotF was keen to inject some funds into the Daylesford economy, just not into the parts in which I’m interested. A quick look at the map indicates that Daylesford is close enough to Woodend which is the home of …
The Tooborac Hotel & Brewery
After a great couple of days in Thredbo, a long roadtrip to Hepburn Springs in Victoria beckoned. Nothing fun was planned, but luck was running my way. As we cross-countried from the Hume Highway towards the Calder one of the …
Kosciuszko Brewing Co and Mountain Wheat
At most of the Thredbo bars I’ve visited in the last couple of days, Kosciuszko Pale Ale has been available either on tap or in the stubbie. We’ve already reviewed the Pale Ale on these pages when I saw it …
