There’s nothing your botf members like more than showing off their fair city from the botf. This correspondent works for an enterprise with a corporate head office in Melbourne so it’s with pleasure that I inducted a few colleagues from …
Swannies, Crookwell Hotel, Bomber KPA and Cockburn British Bitter
For this correspondent, New South Wales’ long weekend means two things – football grand finals and a trip to the country for the Osborne Open. The Osborne Open started 10 or so years ago at a friend’s family’s property and …
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Blagdon lake, Butcombe Bay and Butcombe Beer
Fished Blagdon lake last Monday in showery conditions with younger brother and my son. Winds were from south west with strong squalls of wind and rain keeping it suitably fresh with small interludes of sunshine. The boats at Blagdon have …
Daylight savings eve and Cittavecchia Chiara
I write this post literally from the Back of the Ferry on the last weekday afternoon before daylight savings kicks in. Daylight savings is a wonderful institution and adds a cherry on the top of the cream that is the …
Chew Valley and a Beachcomber beer
Back in the UK, a while since my last blog, the first week back in Bristol was fairly wet, on the first full day there was a month’s worth of rain in a day causing a fair bit flooding, so …
Sainte Etienne – another Aldi tribute beer
Recently BotF wrote about a new addition to the Aldi range of beers that had a remarkable resemblance to a high profile Australian beer. Well, Aldi’s done it again, paying homage to one Europe’s biggest beers – Stella Artois. Sainte …
Induction – Ella #41
Tonight the old crusties that make up the Back of the Ferry crew were joined by a very enthsiastic inductee. Ella has been longing to make the pages of BotF, and given her unseen contribution to some of our finest/questionable …
Simtra – a Triple India Pale Ale
As if Back of the Ferry’s great friend, Rachel, hadn’t done enough introducing BotF to Pliny the Elder she goes and calmly announces that she has brough back another beer from her evening with the high falutin’, high finance types. …
Eurofest 2012 and Erdinger Oktoberfest
The weekend before last, Illiards and this correspondent attended the 20th anniversary of Eurofest 2012. Despite having lived on the insular peninsula for over 12 years now, I’ve never been to Eurofest. Each year I see the signage – I …
Vale Robert G. Barret, Rivet Lager and Tun Bitter
On Thursday, this correspondent’s favourite Australia novelist, Robert G. Barrett, died after long battle with cancer. I’m not a big reader of books, so I make this observation from a narrow perspective, but if there is a better exponent of …
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