via Ben Dahl at Cool Material Have you ever stood at your local suds emporium and wondered whether or not the bottles you were about to purchase were filled with microbrewed craft goodness or a macrobrewed imposter? That line of …
Category: Beers
Hanging out for a drink after work?
Originally posted on Loose Head Prop: New research by the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests maybe you shouldn’t wait that long. Scientists at UIC have found that moderate alcohol consumption actually improves creative problem solving ability. Maybe Ernest Hemmingway…
Holgate Tap Takeover at YardArm Taphouse
Last Wednesday night, two of your correspondents enjoyed an hour or so of beer heaven. The afternoon had started off in typical fashion, sharing post work bevvies with pommy_ch and lamb0 on the Back of the Ferry. Pommy_ch and lamb0 …
Oh Lordy, Garage Project and Bebemos
The suburb of Newtown in Wellington has gone through an unbelievable transformation over the last 10+ years. It was once a working class suburb with not a lot going for. It had a bad reputation as a run-down, derelict and dangerous …
8 New Beers You Should Know
via Mike Newman @ Cool Material As 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 them are brand new and …
Donny’s, Dumplings, Dad & Dave’s – an alliterative combo
Back in the early days of Back of the Ferry, we wrote about a cool new bar in Manly. Almost four years later, as a symbol of Manly’s growth as a bar district, we are now writing about another new …
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FAA Kills a Great Idea
via The Verge A nearly unbelievable video of a drone that delivers 12-packs of beer to ice fishers on a frozen lake turns out to be too good to be true. Beermaker Lakemaid created the video as a riff on Amazon’s …
Washable, Writable, Reusable Homebrew Beer Bottle Labels
via Ben Dahl from Cool Material If you have ever homebrewed your own beer, or know someone that has, you understand the very specific nightmare that is marking them. Writing on the bare bottles isn’t effective. Paper gets destroyed. Labels …
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Traditional t-shirt gifting
When a BotF founding member is fortunate to travel OS he usually shares his good fortune by bringing a beer, a beer glass, a beer-shirt or combination of the above. Illiards has been regaling us of his tales of Vietnam …
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