Just a short 60 minute drive from Wellington is Martinborough. Although it’s just a short drive, there’s the Rimutaka Hill to conquer first. It’s a real challenge for those who aren’t good car passengers with a history of car sickness …
Category: Beers
New members and monopolizing the aft deck
A busy night on the botf with a few new members to be inducted and a botf takeover of the full aft deck. Our first inductee; Name: Ian Favourite drink: Russian Imperial Stout Favourite Sport to Spectate: EPL football Area …
Twitter – Are you kidding me?
This is – without a shadow of doubt – a very dark day in the world of social media. The following is an excerpt from a post by Kate Knibbs at Digital Trends that appeared on November 27, 2013. Twitter …
4 Pines Keller Door Spice Rack cask series and vale Rubber Duckie
Over the years, the 4 Pines Keller Door has released some beers with some weird and wonderful ingredients. Chocolate Seaweed Porter, Porky Pig and Fig, Banana Bread and Espresso, Apple and Blackcurrant Crumble, Black Forest (cake) Imperial Stout and Cherry …
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Sweating gold sovereigns
Your correspondent’s day job enables me to visit the birdcage at the thoroughbred races at Flemington in Melbourne once a year. For those who may be unaware, this is the annual look-at-me fest that occurs in a roped off section …
Slow Beer and East of Everything
It’s been great to get out into Melbourne’s inner-city suburbia again, and BotF’s occasional Melbourne guide and inductee Cam covered himself in glory with his latest two selections. His two choices on this particular evening really showed why Melbourne is …
In situ posting, Ruddles and Two Birds
It’s been a wild Melbourne like day in Sydney. Sunny, cold snap, drenching rain and now sunny and becoming warm. Now perfect conditions for an early trip home. Vintage Cellars at Wynyard has the odd unique and BotF’s great friend, …
Bar Nacional and a trio of Spanish beers
Most of the time, when this correspondent is in Melbourne, he schleps it down in whatever the opposite of the Paris End of Collins Street is. For a long time it has been a barren place, which has had the …
Manly Phoenix at the Steyne and White Horse Lager
The 2013 edition of the Melbourne Cup was shaping up to be a shocker. I was crook, there was no free lunch to be found in these expense challenged times and we couldn’t even get the television to work on …
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Summer Dayze Ale, Narragansett Summer Ale and Lou Reed
On the weekend, I sampled two “Summer Ales” that couldn’t have more different backgrounds. My brother had muled a couple of cans of Narragansett Summer Ale (and a great pint glass) from the US for me. I then spotted a …
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back of the ferry 