It is hard to remember a time before the current COVID pandemic. The cacophony of bad news over the past few months, together with social restrictions and the massive impact on peoples livelihoods, makes the ‘pre-COVID’ era seem a distant …
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Camel Rock Brewery & The Million Dollar View Hotel
The trip to The South Coast centred around surfing. Fortunately the surf can be fickle. The boys had a session for the ages in the morning, but the swell, the tide and the wind conspired against an afternoon session. Liquid …
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A glimmer of hope & thank goodness for local breweries
Our most recent, and very welcome, #beermail from our friends at Nomads Brewing arrived during the COVID-19 lockdown here in Sydney. One of the best things to come out of all this weirdness was the #keeplocalsalive campaign to support local …
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Cupitt’s Estate Brewery – bucolic beers
A lovely trend of the craft beer evolution has been the addition of a small brewery to a vineyard. Scratch a winemaker and often there’s a home brewer lurking under the surface. (Hope, Vale, Ironbark etc). That’s the story with …
Dangerous Ales at the Milton Hotel
In between East Coast Lows, a number of us took a few days out to visit the South Coast of NSW. The 450km between Wollongong and the NSW/Vic border possesses some of the finest beaches and scenery you’d fine anywhere …
A new old club in Manly
For a century or so there has been a garage on the corner of Gilbert and Eustace St in Manly. The unusually named “Auckland” garage which sits behind the park on Belgrave where the Northern Beaches buses congregate has been …
Drinking in The Grawin
I can honestly say that I didn’t hold high hopes for my visit to Walgett. My daughter is an optimistic soul however, and she said “Wait until we do the Grawin”. “The Grawin” is a collection of opal mines, miners …
The Carinda Hotel – unlikely Bowie history
Your correspondent made the trek to Walgett to visit a daughter working in the hospital up there. There’s no pub in Walgett and the Sports Club and RSL haven’t reopened. Luckily the publican of the Bucking Bull Hotel in Coonamble …
The world’s best commutes gets back on track
With your correspondents having been travelling far and wide lately, it has been a long time between orange whips on the back of the ferry. What better way to get back in our stride than with the latest #beermail from …
Death Ave Brewing Co and The High Line
Started this post in February when the world was a different place. Maybe a long time before I‘d visit NYC again. Manhattan is the epicentre of New York City. Yes, there are four other Boroughs (Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn and …
back of the ferry 