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” …
Category: Beers
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”, …
East Village Balmain, Stone & Wood Amasia Rumweizen
The first postcode I resided in when I obtained the “inoz” suffix was NSW 2041. That was some 13 years ago when the Wallabies held the Bledisloe and the RWC, and my only exposure to Aussie beer was VB and …
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Uncle Ming, Yebisu Dark and Hitachino Nest Japanese Classic Ale
Another week and another new bar in West Wynyard – and what a bar. Uncle Ming’s Bar has very recently opened under and next to a suit store in York Street. It is tricky to find (and I walked straight …
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The Very Many Varieties of Beer
A fantastic piece of artwork for the wall of the bar (or Cantina). Click to view larger version.
A Winter Beer Festival – Trains and Beer
It is the last weekend of what has felt like a pretty cold winter in Sydney. Fortunately for the organisers of the first annual Winter Beer Festival, Sydney brought on a little piece of spring early and a cloudless day …
Bledisloe Cup Blues, All Blacks, Wallabies and Speights Distinction
I used to love my Rugby Union. I really, really loved it. Whether it was bike riding to TG Millner for each Eastwood home game, hoovering up news articles about the Wallabies, Waratahs and Woodies, organising and playing for Sloths …
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A “Classic” Michelada and Baja Blond
This correspondent has been away from the family for a few nights. In addition, on a recent visit to the hippest new place in Manly, I only took one daughter. Another was not amused. So to make amends – a …
Temple Brewing and Oatmeal Stout
There is so much action happening on such a frequent occurrence in the Australian craft beer scene, that august journals like The Crafty Pint and Australian Brews News (can a journal be digital?) can barely squeeze all the news in. …
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