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, …
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, …
Punch & Judy’s Ale and Mungo MacCallum
BotF recently purchased the third of Mungo MacCallum’s Federal election reviews. He has previously released “Run, Johnny, Run” (2004 election), “Poll Dancing” (2007 election) and now “Punch & Judy – The Double Disillusion Election of 2010”. I have it on …
Sapporo Premium Beer, Big Cans and Japanese beer brewed in Canada
Another beer BotF enjoyed on New Year’s Eve was Sapporo Premium Beer. This was picked up from the Newport Bottler, which is generally guaranteed to have a beer not tried before. They have a particularly good supply of Polish darks …
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Rainbow Beach Hotel, XXXX Bitter and Queensland Mud Crab
The Rainbow Beach Hotel (RBH) http://www.rainbowhotel.com.au/RainbowBeachHotel/home.html is a is nothing less than an exceptional reproduction example of Colional Style Queensland Pub. The developers have included all the finer details in the fittout including pressed metal ceilings, VJ walls and polished timber floors. In …
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Krusovice Imperial, a fine way to see in 2011
Sydney weather is absolutely awesome today and with the northern beaches turning it on, beer porn never looked better. Today’s subject is Krusovice Imperial, an untranslateable Bohemian beer from the Czech Republic. It is sad that a brewery that has …
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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Hoegaarden and Cyclonic Conditions in Queensland
TfT, BotF’s Beijing correspondent is home with the family and back at our beloved Rainbow Beach http://www.rainbow-beach.org/ for a couple of weeks of rest from the severe Chinese northern winter. Despite similar conditions being experienced in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht …
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Icon 2IPA – Murray’s Craft Brewing Co’s finest moment
To quote one of this correspondent’s daughters – OMG. Possibly the bucolic setting contributed, but this stubby of Icon 2IPA was one of the finest beers I’ve consumed. In this instance label hyperbole is justified. “this is not a beer …
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Mad Brewer’s Orchard Ale – beer verging on cider
This 640ml longneck (a schmiddy version of a longneck) was lurking on a shelf in an Avoca Beach bottlo. Research reveals it was launched in January ’10 by a side label of the Malt Shovel Brewery, the makers of James …
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back of the ferry 