How many can the BotF tick off from this selection? via: The Awesome Blog
My Wife’s Bitter – a Bit on the Side
There’s a couple of welcome trends emerging in Australian craft beer – one’s bigger than the other. Firstly, most craft brewers are producing one-offs or seasonals to complement their always available range. Secondly, a couple of brewers have actually created …
Belhaven’s St.Andrew’s Ale and BoobsandBreweries.com
I’m not even going to try and link the two subjects of this post. This is a complete non sequitur. A purchase from Cellarbrations near Crown that ended up in carry_on proved to be a great an antidote to Sydney’s …
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What’s Cool Now: Beer Ice Cream
In the summer, few things bring more joy than beer and ice cream. It seems like destiny that the two should hook up. A group of buddies in Atlanta discovered their calling by accident when someone spilled a bottle of …
The Lord Wolseley Hotel
The Lord Wolseley is one of the last of a dying breed. A small corner pub, sans “brass & glass”, in a quiet inner city Sydney neighbourhood. If I’d ever had the chance to live the “single, no kids, piles …
Pinchgut Brewing Co, Pilzner and Black Pilzner
Hart’s Pub has rapidly embedded itself into the list of BotF’s favourite pubs in Sydney. The 4 Pines and Murray’s at Manly are wonderful spots to continue a robust discussion that occurs on the Back of the Ferry, but there’s …
The Waiting Room, Skol and a Bottlo near the Crown Towers
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 …
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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 …
