via Mike Newman at Cool Material If you own a 64 oz growler you’ve probably come across a bit of an issue: That beer doesn’t stay fresh long after you open it. Okay, this might not be an issue for …
Category: Beers
Are We in Danger of a Beer Monopoly?
via The New York Times Every day, the Web site BeerPulse tries to list every single new beer available in the United States. And that’s harder than you might imagine. Recently, the site posted Cigar City’s Jamonera Belgian-style Porter, Odell …
Meltdown Double IPA – The first Alaskan on the Back of the Ferry
Over the years, Back of the Ferry’s great friend and member – Rachel – has bought back some remarkable beers from the United States. Her most glorious moment was when she bought back a Pliny the Elder, which was given …
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Stouts galore at 4 Pines – but you’d better be quick
4 Pines Brewing are certainly making maximum use of their new brewing facilities at Brookvale. Since the start of the year, I reckon they’ve released 7 beers in their Keller Door series. In fact they’ve released so many beers since …
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Northern Hemisphere Harvest in the Southern Hemisphere
It’s been a long between drinks for a classic BotF post that is simply about a beer drunk on the Back of the Ferry. That’s what tonight’s post is. On the way to Circular Quay I pulled into Vintage Cellars …
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Honey Rider Bar and Sculpin IPA
Let me clear this up straight away. They don’t sell Ballast Point Sculpin IPA at Honey Rider Bar. It is just another non sequitur BotF post where we’ve got to include a beer in the post, even if it has …
Tracking a cruise ship leaving Sydney and Pomegranate Beer
After a what seemed like a Napoleanic period of exile, we made it back out to traditional home of the Back of the Ferry. It was worth the wait as the twilight delivered a picturesque evening and we tracked a …
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Andre, Daniel and Ralph – a Swiss induction and Dad and Dave’s Pale Ale
Back of the Ferry’s North-East Asian correspondent, Tony from Toowoomba, is on an all too infrequent visit to Australia. Even when TfT does make it back to Australia it is not often that he gets to Sydney, but he makes …
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10 US Breweries to Look Out For
I’ll save the retrospective BS and get right down to it. According to the full article published at Food Republic, back in the 70s there were only 40 breweries in the entire United States of America. Forty! Get your DeLorean …
Bodywomping at Flint and Steel Beach and VIÆMILIA
Sydney’s been battered by a big storm that seems to have lasted most of the weekend. Most of Sydney’s beaches have resembled washing machines and no-one was out. I did, however, discover one beach where there was actually a wave …
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