An in situ (ie on the BotF) posting. On a day when very strong rumours have emerged that AC/DC have played their last gig – news of a new bar at Circular Quay is small beer. However, given it’s a …
Category: Manly & the Ferry
Holgate Tap Takeover at YardArm Taphouse
Last Wednesday night, two of your correspondents enjoyed an hour or so of beer heaven. The afternoon had started off in typical fashion, sharing post work bevvies with pommy_ch and lamb0 on the Back of the Ferry. Pommy_ch and lamb0 …
4 Pines Keller Door Spice Rack cask series and vale Rubber Duckie
Over the years, the 4 Pines Keller Door has released some beers with some weird and wonderful ingredients. Chocolate Seaweed Porter, Porky Pig and Fig, Banana Bread and Espresso, Apple and Blackcurrant Crumble, Black Forest (cake) Imperial Stout and Cherry …
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In situ posting, Ruddles and Two Birds
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, …
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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A mass induction
There’ll be a veritable slew of induction posts over the next few days as this correspondent and illiards felt like a priest at a mass Korean wedding inducting 10 new members. A team bonding session needed to held offsite and …
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 …
Purple dusk and a little vexillogy
New South Wales’ unbelievably warm late winter and early spring weather has had some very destructive consequences. On Wednesday, fires rages to the North, West and South of Sydney and at around 4pm an apocalyptic cloud cover darkened the city. …
Abboccata, the Sultan Iskandar Muda and IFR2013
The Back of the Manly Ferry will be a place to be in Sydney this week, as Sydney Harbour hosts the International Fleet Review. In 1913, the Royal Australian Navy sailed into Sydney for the first time. There were 7 …
The sun is approaching the Yard Arm
I found my way this evening to the Rubber Duckie Taphouse (RDT) after my disappointment in finding that Manly Cinema is temporarily and inexplicably closed. I take my pew, awaiting the start of the Manly Sea Eagles playing their semi …
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