This correspondent is not a big fan of the Crown Casino. The quality of their rooms mean the Crown Towers is not a bad place to stay, but their bars and mini-bars generally are stocked appallingly at egregious mark-ups. Fortunately …
Pigs Fly Pale Ale and Mittagong Pubs
This BotF correspondent recently composed a post on the side of a highway between Mittagong and Campbeltown when the Terios Chariot broke down. I had to return to Mittagong to pick up said Chariot and took the opportunity to spend …
VB Raw, a sad story that ended happily
There are occasions when a company does something so stupid – it beggars belief. Joe Public looks incredulously at a new product and thinks – “this mob must take me for a mug”. An idea might appear good at the …
Work Beer
From the pages of Why Didn’t We Think of This? comes Work Beer. WORK Labs, a Virginia-based advertising/design/branding agency has brilliantly created their own beer, making us all wonder why we didn’t think of it first. WORK Beer was the …
James Squire IPA and a shared journey
The botf team are a privileged bunch. We live in a fine city and are able to meander home at the end of each working day on the rear deck of a worthy vessel that traverses the one of the …
500th post on BotF, Happy #IPADay, Badlands Man Singh IPA
Short post, but only appropriate that the 500th is sent real time from the Back of the Ferry. To celebrate #IPADay, we bought an unusual IPA from Orange in a beautiful swing top bottle. More detailed review later. Cheers to …
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Qantas lounge needs the Yak. @matildabaybrew
The beer list at Qantas Clubs has taken a major dive. Not long ago you could endure a flight delay by getting the occasional Fat Yak from @Matildabaybeer. Now the photo shows what is available. Disappointing. Qantas needs to check …
July Round of the Harbord Bowling Fishing Club
Great weather last weekend with a small swell and gentle offshore north westerly winds, it would have been ideal for fishing offshore in the kayak. I had the day off on Friday, but all my plans went out of the …
Stone Beer and #IPADay
Stone & Wood has made a couple of appearances on Back of the Ferry. That’s as many as they’ve been able to make as they keep it pretty simple up in Byron. Generally Stone & Wood make two beers – …
Shirt Bar and Floris Apple beer
An unlikely area of Sydney that has benefitted from the introduction of small bars is the pocket west of Wynyard and north of King Street. This formerly drab part of town has also seen the development of a large number …
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