You’ve got to love Melbourne Pubs. This North Melbourne gem will be added to the BotF Bar Review Map and will be revisited if only to work through the taps. Restaurant looks fine, though other people’s coin would be preferred. …
Category: Beers
Court House Hotel, N Melbourne & 3 Ravens 55. (part 1)
Two part story due to iPhone limitation of only one photo per mail. What a great draught line-up of tap beer! I’ve been keen to get into a 3 Ravens and here it is on tap. It is pretty rare …
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Owd Rodger, Marston’s and an alternative Australian middle order
The Ashes are looming and it is with a heavy heart BotF realises that it could quite possibly be the first time in a very long time that the Poms might actually retain them on antipodean soil. In anticipation of …
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Thirsty Merc and Three Kings
The Grand in the ‘gong has been reviewed and is on the BotF Bar Review Map. Special treat after a post offside dinner was to stroll into the Grand for a post prandial and find out that Thirsty Merc were …
Sheep wins over Bear
Lazy Saturday afternoon, and the heat has brought on the need for a couple of thirst quenchers. Today’s candidates, a Danish pale lager – Harboe Bear Beer and a Scottish Ale – Sheepshaggers Gold. The winner – hands down – …
The triplets – Monteiths Pilsner
Your correspondent has reviewed several Monteiths products earlier in this blog (Monteiths Golden Lager | Monteiths Celtic Red). In fact, the Golden Lager was the preferred orange whip for yours truly for quite some time (Fat Yak currently holds this …
James Boags Premium Lager and Cricket
Two BotF founders played cricket today in an almost one year anniversary of one of the hottest games of cricket ever played. That day the temperature was 42 degrees. Today was a far more benign 28ish, but it is still …
The New Pornographers, Mountbatten Hotel, County Clare and Pure Blonde White
BotF forgot until about two days before that he had tickets to the New Pornographers at Manning Bar. The New Pornographers are an 8 piece band from Vancouver (though one member doesn’t do OS travel at all) and they have …
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Viking – the closest BotF will get to get to Iceland (probably)
The global economy continues to astound and the quirky beers that emerge in the unlikeliest places also amazes. The Hotel Illawarra, Wollongong was the source of this offering from Vifilfell Brewery, which is located in the town of Akureyri, Iceland. …
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Xingu – a Black Brazilian
There seems to be no end to the weird and wonderful beers that can be found in Sydney’s bottle shops. Whilst we’ve had Brazilian beers make BotF, this would have to be one of the most unusual drops to grace …
back of the ferry 