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 …
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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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 …
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