Today (16 June) is the official date of 4 Pines’ Anniversary. Happy 7th birthday to the Spiritual home of the Back of the Ferry. Founding BotF members Pommy_ch and Lamb0 travelled with this correspondent in inclement conditions on the Back …
Category: Beers
GABS Sydney 2015 – Stupendous and never to be missed again
Back of the Ferry had never made it to a Great Australasian Beer Spectapular. No excuses, we’d just never managed to get there. Well – no excuses this year. Back of the Ferry was officially accorded membership of the Fourth …
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Vivid over and @Endeavourbeer 2014 Pale Ale
An in situ post. (MV FRESHWATER) Well, Vivid is over for another year. They’ve done a remarkable job getting rid of everything and the Quay is back to normal. The only first hand experience I had of Vivid this year …
Fast Ferry Flounderings
This correspondent was never able to remember the difference between the Sydney Fast Ferry and the Manly Fast Ferry. Which one left from Wharf 6 at Circular Quay, which one needed which card and which one served 4 Pines …
Shekou, Shenzhen Shenanigans
After a couple of bullet trains and a looong Metro ride I arrived at the second city of my Chinese weekend – Shekou, which is a district of Shenzhen. In 1978/9 Deng Xiaoping chose Shenzhen to be a Special …
A day in Zhongshan
A week’s work in Hong Kong means a weekend visit to China. Staying true to this blog’s origins I chose a city to start with that I could access via ferry. Zhongshan is 90 minutes from Kowloon, crossing the …
Another BotF daylight savings season comes to an end
Whilst there’s never a bad time to be on the Back of the Ferry, twilight during Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time is my favourite. This years AEDST season has been a ripper, with the ever increasing numbers of massive cruisers …
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Naming a beer after the right sloth
In 1979, Life on Earth by David Attenborough was published. Like many others, I love it, but probably not for an expected reason. I was fascinated by two paragraphs of beautifully dry and exact prose that describes the world’s laziest …
4 Pines – The Story of Pale Ale
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 …
