Shop 1 46/48 East Esplanade is another Manly venue that has had its fair share of turnover in the last few years. Most recently it was the home of Manly’s smallest sports bar (and a Back of the Ferry favourite …
Tag: Drinking in Manly

Goodbye 33 Degrees – Hello Taproom
In 2014, the New Brighton Hotel renamed its first floor bar 33 Degrees and went hard on craft beer for some time. Back in the day US, Norwegian and Danish craft beer could be found on their taps. And you …

Quakers Hat Brewing – Manly Vale’s first brewery
It is so good to be able to write about visiting a brewery again. Our first Friday night out in 110 days and we are able to coincide that with a visit to a new taproom. Dave and his sons …
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Bucketty’s Brewing Co – open in Brookvale via Bucketty
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 …
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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 …

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 …