Before the BotF, BotF popped into a perennial favourite – the Occidental. The Occi has been serving a beer for a while now that is only available on tap – Balmain Pale Ale. If they could replicate this in a …
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Kelly Brothers Cider, Endeavour Amber Ale and BotF back on the ferry
Normal service resumed with BotF making the first journey home for 2011. Good crew tonight with the BotF darts team on board with their tried and true long necks in hand. All the big issues were discussed including the EPL, …
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BotF gets the MFF and watches new Beer
The only way that BotF would get either Fast Ferry service is to watch a live sporting event, even one as depressing as the current Ashes Series. The Manly Fast Ferry has one thing going for it over the great, …
Coopers Premium Lager – The Tipple on the last BotF trip for 2010
For the first time in a decade BotF is working between Christmas and New Year. Given that a decade ago BotF wasn’t even catching the ferry because the founders were living in the glorious Inner West of Sydney, we haven’t …
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4 Pines Stout, Adnams Broadside and Merry Christmas
BotF managed to breast the yuletide season finishing line tape – just – with a couple of new beers under a Christmas tree. First up was the 3rd of the 4 bottled beers available from one of BotF’s favourite brewers …
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Amstel, Clouds and fish
Cracking evening on the harbour. There was plenty of maritime and aquatic activity this evening. Jim Clark had moved the Athena again, there were two smaller yet no less attractive boats moored in Campbell Cove, there were shirtless blokes getting …
Asahi Super Dry and Hugos Manly
BotF has always been reluctant to venture into Hugos Manly, despite the fact that it is literally the closest bar to the Back of the Ferry. This reluctance was partly driven by the query over Hugos status as a bar …
Cascade Premium Lager, Holgate ESB and further induction coverage
Hard to believe that Cascade Premium Lager hasn’t graced the pages of BotF before now. An Australian premium perennial, it has sat comfortably alongside Hahn Premium, James Boags Premium and Crown Lager as a corporate board room beer. It would …
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Kirin, Oprah and Jim Clark’s big boat
A trio of BotF’s congregated on a later than usual ferry, and it was quite packed. The installation of a number of seats out the back also adds to the crowding. Using the BotF Beer List as a guide, we …
Snaketide come of age, Old Manly Boatshed and Innis & Gunn
A Sunday night in Manly is normally the preserve of backpackers trying to get into the Shore Club, but on this particular Sunday evening the Old Manly Boatshed was the go. Snaketide were flexing their muscles for their friends and …
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