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 …
Tag: beer
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 …
Back to Back of the Ferry’s roots
When Back of the Ferry debuted as a blog over 5 years ago, its ambitions were modest at best. Write a couple of tales about bars between work and the ferry and maybe talk about a different beer imbibed on …
Kingdom Brewery Tour – the fastest ever
I took Mrs Bladdamasta for a bike ride to some markets in Phnom Penh. I’d hired a tandem and we gave the good citizens of Phnom Penh some entertainment as we huffed and puffed our way along the river bank. …
Himawari Microbrewery – Location, Location, Location
I’ve made it to Phnom Penh – more on the journey later. We’ve jagged a remarkable apartment on the banks of the Tonle Sap about a few hundred metres from where it joins the Mekong River. The Western side of …
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Drinking in Siem Reap
Cambodia’s a hot country. It is winter at the moment and it was thirty degrees yesterday. Imagine what it is like in summer. After a day’s templing, you really do need a beer. Siem Reap has that covered and how. …
Induction – James & Manny #72 #73 + 4 Pines Oktoberfest
Spring has definitely sprung in Sydney town. Evenings on the ferry are an absolute delight. This winter wasn’t particularly tough. There was only a couple of really cold only-for-the-salty-seadogs kind of nights, but it is a treat to be travelling …
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Nomad Brewing Co. – Life in God’s Country keeps getting better
Residents of Sydney’s Northern Beaches are often heard referring to their domain as God’s Country. People might think that that is a little presumptuous, but after one trip on the Manly Ferry on a sunny, a swim at one of …
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Celebrating @HopDogBW 3rd birthday at @spooninggoats
One of my favourite small bars in West Wynyard is The SG Bar or as I prefer to know it – Spooning Goats. As funky and as hipster are the Barber Shop, Baxters, Ramblin’ Rascal Rose and their ilk – …
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Garage Bar & Diner
Just discovered what I thought was a new bar in Bridge Street, but it has apparently been around for 8 months. Garage or (maybe more formally Bridge St Garage Bar * Diner) is a stripped back bar opposite the Stock …
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