Craft brewers are often persistent buggers. You have to be when you deal with councils. Bucketty’s Brewing Co are more persistent than most and if you read their back story on their website you’ll understand why. A four year journey …
Tag: Drinking in Manly
Manly Hops – a new beer in Manly town
This correspondent has been very lax in not writing up Sketch Manly before now. Manly’s first and only Coffee, Craft Beer and Curry bar was a god-send during lockdown. Sketch’s fridges bulge with some of the best craft beer and …
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 …
New Brighton Lager by @TwoBirdsBrewing
So Manly is emerging from the COVID19 slumber. On the second day of the “50 people rule”, Sydney has turned on a freezing day, but that hasn’t stopped people patronising those venues that have chosen to open. Straight back into …
Burgers & Beers, a new Manly venue
Burgers and beers. What could go wrong? In the combined hands of Chefs Kitchen and Dad & Dave’s Brewing – pretty much nothing. It’s a modest frontage and very simple fit-out, but what comes out of the kitchen and pours …
Drinking in Manly – The Blind Barrel
As summer rapidly approaches, Manly has been hit by a Tsunami of new bars and restaurants. It is just about impossible to keep up. Above the relatively old Queen Chow, Sake and El Camino Cantina opened on the weekend. The …
Drinking in Manly – Hawkesbury Brewing Co
I’m of the view that you can never have enough choice when it comes to beer, bars or breweries. So the arrival of a new beer in Manly can only be a good thing. I’d never seen or heard of …
Happy 10th birthday @4Pinesbeer literally from the Back of the Ferry
An in situ post. The Back of the Ferry blog turns 9 years old in November. An integral part of the Back the Ferry history includes 4 Pines. From time to time we drink 4 Pines on the Back of …
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Happy IPA Day
Your correspondents at backoftheferry wish you a very happy IPA Day. We chose to celebrate at our spiritual home-away-from-home, 4 Pines Brewing. As you’d expect they had a cracking range of IPAs on offer and, as you have come to …
Fail fast & learn – 4 Pines Keller Door
I know from my day job that if a business does not learn to try new things, measure for success and be prepared to change direction upon failure then mediocrity soon follows. It seems that 4 Pines Beer are well …
