As if Back of the Ferry’s great friend, Rachel, hadn’t done enough introducing BotF to Pliny the Elder she goes and calmly announces that she has brough back another beer from her evening with the high falutin’, high finance types. …
Category: Beers
Eurofest 2012 and Erdinger Oktoberfest
The weekend before last, Illiards and this correspondent attended the 20th anniversary of Eurofest 2012. Despite having lived on the insular peninsula for over 12 years now, I’ve never been to Eurofest. Each year I see the signage – I …
Vale Robert G. Barret, Rivet Lager and Tun Bitter
On Thursday, this correspondent’s favourite Australia novelist, Robert G. Barrett, died after long battle with cancer. I’m not a big reader of books, so I make this observation from a narrow perspective, but if there is a better exponent of …
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The view from the Turn Bar
A short sharp post from the Back of the Ferry, literally. This photo gives an idea as why we love travelling home this way. The view is from the Turn Bar or off Bradley’s Head as the Manly Ferry gracefully …
ARVO Beer already in Sydney Airport
There’s a new macro brewer in town. Casella Family Brewers have hit the market in a big and different way. Bus shelters across Sydney are imploring drinkers to vote between two beers. That’s old news. What’s new news is that …
Pliny the Elder on tour in Sydney Harbour
As has been previously mentioned, BotF is very lucky to have Rachel in its membership ranks. Rachel travels frequently and has brought back some very interesting beers, which have ended up being taken on journeys to Sydney’s sights. The United …
Paddy’s Brewery, General Sherman’s Pale Ale and Chocolate Porter
The Markets Hotel, Flemington NSW is the unlikely location of one of Sydney’s more longstanding craft brewers. Paddy’s Brewery has been operating out of the Market’s Hotel since 2001, which in craft brewing terms in NSW puts into veteran status. …
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Fraser Briggs Premium Lager – a James Boags piss take, surely & Grottenbier
A movie of my youth was “Repo Man”, which amongst many of its quirky elements had all products in the film were named with blue and white generic labels. Every product just simply had its name – “beer”, “dry gin” …
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A return to the Maori Chief and Innis & Gunn Irish
Many moons ago, this correspondent talked about the Maori Chief on these pages and promised a few photos from inside the joint. A promise is a promise and whilst it is almost two years after said promise was made, here …
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Falling on Your Sword
In recent years Carlton United Breweries “fiddled” with the recipe of the 158 year-old Aussie legend that is Victoria Bitter. Changes were made to the taste, the label – the Victoria Bitter name was dropped in favour of just “VB”, …
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