The trip to The South Coast centred around surfing. Fortunately the surf can be fickle. The boys had a session for the ages in the morning, but the swell, the tide and the wind conspired against an afternoon session. Liquid …
A glimmer of hope & thank goodness for local breweries
Our most recent, and very welcome, #beermail from our friends at Nomads Brewing arrived during the COVID-19 lockdown here in Sydney. One of the best things to come out of all this weirdness was the #keeplocalsalive campaign to support local …
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Cupitt’s Estate Brewery – bucolic beers
A lovely trend of the craft beer evolution has been the addition of a small brewery to a vineyard. Scratch a winemaker and often there’s a home brewer lurking under the surface. (Hope, Vale, Ironbark etc). That’s the story with …
Dangerous Ales at the Milton Hotel
In between East Coast Lows, a number of us took a few days out to visit the South Coast of NSW. The 450km between Wollongong and the NSW/Vic border possesses some of the finest beaches and scenery you’d fine anywhere …
The Long Island City brewery trail – and Queens is done
The fifth and last borough of our five boroughs in five days mission was Queens. I’ve always imagined Queens to be far flung from Manhattan and its skyscrapers. Actually you can get great views of Manhattan from Queens’ western most …
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The Chubb’s Sports Bar empire
On Friday I was able to have a beer at Manly’s newest venue (and solving the mystery in this post). No mean feat because COVID19 capacity at Chubb’s Sports Bar is 20 punters. And the punters were keen. Like moths …
The Bronx Brewery and the Yankee Tavern
The theme of my trip to New York City in February was simple. Five boroughs in five days. And when my daughter was pursuing her passion for Broadway musicals, I pursued mine. So I made sure to visit a brewery …
Breaking news – new sports bar in Manly
So I’m popping into 4 Pines for a work meeting and I notice a couple of new neons. “Blue Moon” “Coors – Born in the Rockies” and “Sports Bar”. I had a peer through the window and there’s definitely a …
Luxus 8.5% – a new Mr Liquor unique
At Back of the Ferry we love it when Mr Liquor introduces a beer that is an @Untappd unique. For many years Mr Liquor has specialised in bargain basement Euroswill™. Six packs of Weidmann Pilsner, Dam Burg and Luxus are …
@BurnleyBrewing – going well in 2020
I write this post sitting in T4 of Tullamarine – waiting to flee Melbourne. Now BotF is prone to bouts of hyperbole, but that’s what it feels like. Melbournians are aghast that a New South Welshman would visit and family …
