A week’s work in Hong Kong means a weekend visit to China. Staying true to this blog’s origins I chose a city to start with that I could access via ferry. Zhongshan is 90 minutes from Kowloon, crossing the …
Another BotF daylight savings season comes to an end
Whilst there’s never a bad time to be on the Back of the Ferry, twilight during Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time is my favourite. This years AEDST season has been a ripper, with the ever increasing numbers of massive cruisers …
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Naming a beer after the right sloth
In 1979, Life on Earth by David Attenborough was published. Like many others, I love it, but probably not for an expected reason. I was fascinated by two paragraphs of beautifully dry and exact prose that describes the world’s laziest …
4 Pines – The Story of Pale Ale
The backoftheferry boys feel a strong affinity with 4 Pines. Our timelines align, roughly, from inception to our current rough edged adolescence. Of course 4 Pines have gone from strength to strength whereas backoftheferry has settled for a kind of …
Sláinte from the Back of the Ferry
Sláinte or Health to all readers of Back of the Ferry. Two of the founding members of BotF are known as Pat & Mick – so no doubt as to our ethnic origins. Like we needed an excuse to celebrate St.Patrick’s …
More Torrance Breweries @monkishbrew & @thedudesbrew
A Saturday in G’s household is spent watching kid’s sport. Given the hectic schedule, there was not much hope held for any sneaky visits to anything really. Serendipitously, the daughter’s soccer game happened in the suburb next to Torrance …
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Loving LA @KingHarborBrew @AbsolutionBrewing
Another trip to the U.S. means another stop in LA to visit a great friend of BotF – Geoffrey. G has been threatening to become BotF’s North American correspondent for some time now. Well he should, because LA offers no …
Beer Cans are Hypnotic
via @Airows A New Zealand brewery made a video highlighting how they make their beer cans. It’s amazing to see something so complex and robotic act in such a beautiful and hypnotic way. The classical music adds an extra dose …
Drumborg Sparkling Ale – another winemaker’s beery take
There’s no shortage of winemakers that have a crack at making a beer, with various degrees of success and scope. We’ve seen the blokes that make Yellow Tail and a small vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula put a variety of …
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Everything You Need to Know About Trading Beer
via Mike Newman @ Cool Material Location, location, location. The adage doesn’t just apply to real estate; it applies to the world of craft beer. Some of greatest beers being produced might simply not be available anywhere near you. So …
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