Ed Hardy Premium Lager is another beer that is poorly named. It is simply far from premium. This correspondent wouldn’t be seen dead wearing most Ed Hardy clothing and this will be the last I’ll be drinking his beer. It …
Category: Beers
Happy Birthday David Ogilvy
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of the father of modern advertising, David Ogilvy. One of David’s most famous campaigns was for Guinness. As it was for Rolls Royce, the Guinness work was honest and relevant. Still …
Tooheys Pils, Hofbrau Hefeweizen Dunkel and the Hibernal Solstice
Exhorted by our celestial and astronomically aware correspondent, Lamb0, a number of Back of the Ferry Regulars assembled on a relatively early ferry to observe the setting of the sun on the Hibernal Solstice. There was a good number of …
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Foursquare Offers…Good Ones!
For those of you that may not be aware, Foursquare is a mixture of loyalty and competition wrapped up in location awareness for your smartphone. Put simply, you “check-in” to establishments – pubs, restaurants, coffee shops, your dry cleaner, work, …
Bolt and RIP the Moose, Brock and the Big Man
What a week-end for deaths. Started with Saturday’s paper announcing the passing of David Brockhoff, was followed by the news during the league broadcast of Rex Mossop’s passing and ended most sadly with the news via twitter of Clarence Clemon’s …
A night out in Manly, Vesuvius and Happy 3rd birthday to 4 Pines
Over a number of years, this correspondent has occasionally taken overseas business visitors on a night out in Manly. In the old days, the trip would consist of a trip on the Back of the Ferry – and a long-neck …
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Pearl River Draft and the increasing cost of Yum Cha
A sodden weekend in Sydney kept this correspondent close to home, but eventually we had to break out and the local Yum Cha was the option. Sydney’s Chinese restaurants aren’t a beer lover’s haven, but you aren’t going there for …
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Leaving Bali on a Hai!
This BotF is brought to you from Carly ‘let’s go to the dodgy ladyboy’ club and Melanie ‘why don’t I get a hang over here’ Evans. From the balcony of room 175 Royal Beach Hotel, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia, 90210. Having …
Mrs Parma’s, Tipples and a swag of Victorian Beers
When I told some Sydney-siders that I was going to have a beer at Mrs Parma’s there was no shortage of school boy sniggers. Mrs Palmers is a cheeky Australian company that sells surf wax based on an unashamedly single …
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Whistler Brewing Co Premium Export Lager and Jackson’s on George 101
BotF’s old mate Tipples (@Tipplesblog) recently lamented that in many instances the only beers brewers export are lagers. Often when I’ve looked up a brewer of obscure lager, I am disappointed to see that I am drinking the blandest of …
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