This BotF correspondent recently attended the Chinese wedding of a great friend and colleague. I was thrilled to be invited, organised my Hongbao and was off Shanghai before heading back to OZ for a quick visit. Arriving late morning prior to …
Category: Beers
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 …
Holgate Temptress and Murray’s Angry Man
This BotF correspondent spent Easter at a farmstay, just north of Dungog. Trepidation, caused by previous disastrous experiences, was replaced by exultation as we had jagged a beauty. A great house smack bang in the middle of a working dairy …
Balmy Autumn evenings and TfT
We’ve been fortunate to be able to entertain our Beijing based correspondent Tony from Toowoomba on two successive nights on the BotF. Sydney must be happy about that, because she has turned on some of the best April weather I …
Pink Killer, @HartsPub and the Butcher Porter
In the early days of BotF we discovered a beer brewed by the Silly Brasserie that was called “Silly Pils“. At the time we lamented the Australian distributors lack of a sense of humour because they renamed the beer “Real …
TfT has landed. Tuborg beer.
He’s made it. Our Beijing correspondent is on board. Crap beer, great view.
Paulaner Salvator and the Part-time Monk
Absent wives presented a rare opportunity to enjoy a Monday night BotF and a post voyage libation on Manly Wharf. So far, the post daylight savings voyages have all been very picturesque with Sydney Harbour not failing to turn a …
El Diablo and a Part-Time Monk
The beer twitter/bloggerverse has been aware of a very interesting project being run by a beer blogger from Iowa. J. Wilson, writes Brewvana, and decided to go the 46 days of the Lent subsisting only on Doppelbock beer “liquid bread” …
Teikoku IPA and the Courthouse (N Melb)
Another trip to Melbourne afforded this correspondent an opportunity to enjoy the delights of the Courthouse, which is a self-proclaimed “Gastro Pub” in North Melbourne. @thecourt_house has appeared on these pages before, but got the briefest review after the briefest …
back of the ferry 