Favourite beverage: Grolsch Favourite sport to spectate: Soccer Area of trivial expertise: Dutch poetry
Banana Bread Beer – I kid you not
Banana Bread is something that my 90 year old grandma still bakes to great effect. To find a beer called Banana Bread Beer is a shock. The Poms have a undeserved reputation for making warm beer, but there are many …
BeerLao, t-shirt special
Beer Lao is a label that I have seen on many a backpacker’s or Aussie home from a football tour to SE Asia’s shirt. I picked up a stubbie of Beer Lao at a great bottlo in Melbourne near Southern …
Boags Draught at U Bar, Melbourne
U bar. Great little hole in the wall bar just down from southern cross train station. 3 sizes of draughts beer. Pot, schooner and jug of Boags Draught, Heinekin, Blonde and XXXX Gold. Fridge full of stubbies and a blackboard …
James Squire Pilsener at Insignia, Melbourne
BotF is in Melbourne and therefore bar paradise. Whilst I am staying at the Casino, a short walk across the Yarra reveals a plethora of cool bars that markedly and favourably to the Sydney CBD’s offerings. For example, Insignia on …
Maredsous 6 – Belgian Brilliance
After a number of quite disappointing bevvies, BotF was delighted to try a really, really good beer from Belgium. Abbey beers fail to disappoint this correspondent and Maredsous 6 is no exception. Very aromatic and cloudy upon pouring, it is …
3 Horses – very bland Dutch beer
A number of BotF members watched the very brave performance by the Socceroos on Sunday morning. One new beer to accompany the viewing. The packaging and naming of 3 Horses “premium” lager was the most exciting thing about this beer. …
Zlatopramen – solid Czech beer
Another in our the occasional series of beers starting with the letter Z. A piddly fourth last in the BotF alphabet of tried beers, but it is much higher in terms of quality. A couple of BotF members split a …
Induction – Erica #13
Aah – the BotF blog moves more slowly now. Partly due to some interesting technological constraints and partly due to the increase in workload for BotF members. Erica fulfilled all criteria to become a new member at the Ferry farewell, …
Bar Miro – Sydney’s Dwindling Spanish Quarter
Bar Miro is on Liverpool St, right in the heart of, what was for 40 years, a large and vibrant Spanish Quarter. You head down a short flight of stairs to a cosy bar-slash-restaurant where the bar is lined with …
back of the ferry 