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 …
Category: Beers
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 …
Singha (at location) and a Harmonica playing Elephant
Singha has already graced the pages of BoTF in a prior musing with this entry detailing an on location sampling in Thailand. Singha is a globally reconginsed brand however I am advised that despite the bottle label saying “Since 1933” brewing officially didn’t …
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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 …
Spanish Amstel, happy birthday pommy_ch and surprising Sediment
pommy_ch is a Back of the Ferry founder, correspondent and regular. Last night was his 21st birthday and after a couple of sherbets at an old city haunt, we celebrated pommy_ch’s coming age in the time honoured fashion – a …
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