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 …
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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Vale Dry – a worrying confluence of unwanted trends
BotF’s Christmas present to himself was a new beer from McLaren Vale Brewing Co., which he had been looking forward to ever since he and Tony from Toowoomba got stuck into a heap of Vale Ales some months ago. That …
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Palm Beach exotica, St Peters Golden Ale, Erdinger Dunkel
BotF’s newest member – Bi-eh – has been enjoying his brief sojourn in Australia, and got into the BotF swing of things by purchasing two beers that have not yet made it to the BotF Beer List. That can be …
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4 Pines Stout, Adnams Broadside and Merry Christmas
BotF managed to breast the yuletide season finishing line tape – just – with a couple of new beers under a Christmas tree. First up was the 3rd of the 4 bottled beers available from one of BotF’s favourite brewers …
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Amstel, Clouds and fish
Cracking evening on the harbour. There was plenty of maritime and aquatic activity this evening. Jim Clark had moved the Athena again, there were two smaller yet no less attractive boats moored in Campbell Cove, there were shirtless blokes getting …
Bruers Bright and Towradgi Beach Hotel
BotF was in Wollongong for the last time for 2010, and was able to get to a new establishment and try a new beer. The Towradgi Beach Hotel is a massive place with all bases covered. Large TAB, extensive indoor …
Asahi Super Dry and Hugos Manly
BotF has always been reluctant to venture into Hugos Manly, despite the fact that it is literally the closest bar to the Back of the Ferry. This reluctance was partly driven by the query over Hugos status as a bar …
Hardcore IPA – a BrewDog flagship
There has been plenty of press in Australia about a relatively new brewer from Scotland called BrewDog. BrewDog comes from Fraserburgh, a small town North of Aberdeen. In a very short space of time, BrewDog has made a major splash …
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