It is BotF on tour this weekend in the Southern Highlands with a number of members enjoying the Easter Break. Untappd uniques abound and there’s plenty of opportunities for beerp0rn against some spectacular backdrops. Carrington Falls is 10kms out of …
Category: Beers
World Beer Cup Winners You Can Drink Right Now
via Mike Newman @ Cool Material With the most entries in the Cup’s history, this year’s World Beer Cup was a battlefield of great brews. Over 4,700 beers from around the world competed to snag gold in a plethora of …
Fred’s Bar and a red moon rising
An in situ (ie on the BotF) posting. On a day when very strong rumours have emerged that AC/DC have played their last gig – news of a new bar at Circular Quay is small beer. However, given it’s a …
8 New Beers You Should Know
via Mike Newman @ Cool Material When you hit your local liquor shop in search of some new beers to try, there are a few that are worth keeping an eye out for. Some of these are brand new and …
Back on the Back of the Ferry and Hong Kong tidbits
As Dorothy once said “There’s no place like home”. Too true, and it was wonderful to Back on the Back of the Ferry with a full turnout of the Foundation members – illiards, Lamb0, pommy_ch, oomploloompa and yours truly. It …
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The Roundhouse – one of Hong Kong’s finest
Looking down Peel Street Back of the Ferry was delighted when HKBeerGuy offered a couple of tips about where to try some good beers in response to one of the recent missives from Hong Kong. Both tips were followed with …
Cochrane’s – British Beer (in) Central
It was my last night in Hong Kong and I was wending my way through Central to pay my final respects to the Roundhouse (more on that later) when I stumbled across Cochrane’s. It’s on a pedestrian part of Cochrane …
Sugar on top of the East Hotel
After being blown away by Azure, the rooftop bar on LKF Hotel, I thought it’d be hard to top. Well, another rooftop bar on another hotel has done it. To be honest, there’s an element of dead heat given the …
On the Back of the Mui Wo ferry
Got the bit between the teeth now and decided to get the ferry to Mui Wo, which is on the verdant Lantau Island. Had I put any sort of planning into my trip, I could have caught an inter-island ferry …
A marriage made in heaven
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