This BotF correspondent avoids Darling Harbour as much as he can. Primarily because it is in the opposite direction to the ferry from my work, but also the restaurants and bars in this area tend to be of the over-priced, …
Sunday 18 December 2011 – Mid Curly
The classic pose. Gusticas ashamed of his appendage holds his bikkie high. The lads enjoyed some technically challenging surf on Sunday as for the second week in succession we were delivered a 3 foot plus swell. Next to no wind, …
Brass Belgium Pilsener & the Williams River, Crown Gold & the Allyn River
To the North and the North East of Dungog is the Barrington Tops National Park. There’s no shortage of rivers that flow out of the Barrington Tops, and with recent rains they are flowing healthily (for Australian rivers anyway). This …
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Phoenix – The ‘Famous’ beer of Mauritius?
Really? This reviewer had never heard of it…but then again outside of those lagers available in oversized tins back in the lazy cicada humming summers of the 70’s in far flung locales such as Eastwood, Top Ryde (why top?) and …
Little Creatures – Rogers
This BoTF correspondent has arrived back in OZ for 3 weeks of R&R with the family. Bladdamasta has suggested a post from Toowoomba would have been good but the best I can do was review a sample tried at Toowoomba. …
Pot, Kettle, Black and a couple of Brisbane pubs
It seems like an eon ago, but this BotF correspondent was recently in Brisbane. There wasn’t much spare time to sample Brisbane’s delights and I was restricted by location. I spent some of my formative years (age 9-11) in Brisbane. …
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Murray’s Angry Man Pale Ale and Dave Sands
The last time this correspondent was in Dungog, I presciently packed a few beers I hadn’t tried before. This was a good move because Dungog’s bottleshop doesn’t yield too much in the way of surprises (unless you count Crown Gold). …
@cavalierbrewing Brown at the Boatbuilders Yard
I’ve loved a brown/dark beer ever since I had my first beer almost 30 years ago. My preference is to drink the dark off the tap, but Cavalier Brown defies that. I’ve had a couple of pints of this drop …
First Beer in Space
On May 27th, 2011 Natural Light (from the Anheuser-Busch stable) officially became “The First Beer In Space”. [Information below via YouTube] Two of Natty Lights Facebook fans, Danny and Rich, came to us with an epic idea to make …
Rio Bravo in a can and a specatator’s perspective of the darts GF
Unlike many other beer blogs, Back of the Ferry is not afraid to delve into bottom reaches of a bottle-shop fridge, particularly if it is a brew that hasn’t graced these pages or added to BotF’s unique beer list on …
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