The backoftheferry boys feel a strong affinity with 4 Pines. Our timelines align, roughly, from inception to our current rough edged adolescence. Of course 4 Pines have gone from strength to strength whereas backoftheferry has settled for a kind of …
Category: Beers
Sláinte from the Back of the Ferry
Sláinte or Health to all readers of Back of the Ferry. Two of the founding members of BotF are known as Pat & Mick – so no doubt as to our ethnic origins. Like we needed an excuse to celebrate St.Patrick’s …
More Torrance Breweries @monkishbrew & @thedudesbrew
A Saturday in G’s household is spent watching kid’s sport. Given the hectic schedule, there was not much hope held for any sneaky visits to anything really. Serendipitously, the daughter’s soccer game happened in the suburb next to Torrance …
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Loving LA @KingHarborBrew @AbsolutionBrewing
Another trip to the U.S. means another stop in LA to visit a great friend of BotF – Geoffrey. G has been threatening to become BotF’s North American correspondent for some time now. Well he should, because LA offers no …
Beer Cans are Hypnotic
via @Airows A New Zealand brewery made a video highlighting how they make their beer cans. It’s amazing to see something so complex and robotic act in such a beautiful and hypnotic way. The classical music adds an extra dose …
Drumborg Sparkling Ale – another winemaker’s beery take
There’s no shortage of winemakers that have a crack at making a beer, with various degrees of success and scope. We’ve seen the blokes that make Yellow Tail and a small vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula put a variety of …
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Everything You Need to Know About Trading Beer
via Mike Newman @ Cool Material Location, location, location. The adage doesn’t just apply to real estate; it applies to the world of craft beer. Some of greatest beers being produced might simply not be available anywhere near you. So …
Back to Back of the Ferry’s roots
When Back of the Ferry debuted as a blog over 5 years ago, its ambitions were modest at best. Write a couple of tales about bars between work and the ferry and maybe talk about a different beer imbibed on …
Eponymous beerp0rn
Went to Halong Bay. Magnificent. Found another Vietnamese pale lager before boarding. Haven’t done much beer photography this trip. That changed, much to the amusement of the crew. HaLong Bay is very important to the Vietnamese and features on their …
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