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, …
Category: Beers
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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Fremantle’s Little Creatures, Cappuccino Strip and the Monk
On a recent work trip to Perth managed to visit the port of Fremantle. Fremantle is roughly 45 minutes by cab from the Perth CBD. The first port of call was the Little Creatures brewery which is situated on Fremantle …
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Drinking with the Doc and big boats return
Sydney Craft Beer Week is over for another year, and BotF’s attendance was quite frankly pathetic as cricket matches and work et al conspired against any real boots’n’all attendance. This correspondent’s only real experience of what looked like a wonderful …
16 Great American Beer Festival Winners You Can Buy Now
Tickets to this year’s Great American Beer Festival sold out in 20 minutes. This isn’t shocking when you consider that over 600 of the best breweries in the U.S. were in attendance and that beer is delicious. The highlight of …
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1500 @untappd uniques!
The app of choice for the backoftheferry is @untappd. The botf correspondents celebrate with relish the various badges the app rewards us for enjoying our favourite beverage but none more than the Uniques*. Botf reached the 1000 milestone (“Extraordinary”) almost …
Quarter Mile Double IPA and Washaway Beach
As previously mentioned, our newly inducted American member, Ryan, brought a trio of Massachusetts’ finest craft beers with him for the Back of the Ferry to sample. When beers have travelled such a long distance they deserve respectful amounts of …
Aquae Sulis, Tribute Pale Ale, Blagdon Lake and the Hunter’s Rest
Son has a school history project to complete when we get back to Oz. He decided the topic would be the Roman Baths. A trip round the Baths with audio guide was required and we learnt all about Aquae Sulis …
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