Most Trustworthy Beer Blog
Today seems like a good day to do a blog post with a recent survey revealing that bloggers are the least trusted profession. Not that I would call this a profession and realistically how many people are there that would call this a profession? Or earn a paycheck from it for that matter? With that...
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Pilgrimage to the Best Beer in the World
Somewhere in the back roads of nowhere, two and half hours drive from Brussels, lies a Trappist monastery brewing world class beers following recipes that are almost as old as our country. Ratebeer.com lists Westvleteren 12 (or Westy 12 to its friends) as one of the highest rated beers in the world by the site’s...
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Mash Palace Beer On The Market
We celebrated the release of Mash Palace’s Indra Fridgee IPA Saturday 22 August at Brew On Quay in Auckland. The brew team all arrived early to get our first taste of the commercial batch brewed by Hop Federation and we were not disappointed. Full frontal hoppy aromas of citrus and pine hit you first,...
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Building a brew kit, how hard can it be?
Building a “pico” brewery with a bunch of mates, how hard can it be? This was the question we had asked ourselves before we set out to answer it. One thing I found really handy was the documented progress of other brewers out there, so we thought that we would take you along for...
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Big roadie ends in beers
The next few posts will comprise my travel/beer diary as Bill of Beer discovers more of Australia and the beers they are brewing. This is the fifth in a six-part series. Monday morning I awoke fairly clear-headed. Thank you ANZ stadium for only serving up light and mid-strength beer options at the Grand Final....
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Sydney marathon for the beer palate
The next few posts will comprise my travel/beer diary as Bill of Beer discovers more of Australia and the beers they are brewing. This is the third in a six-part series. We travelled leaps and bounds on day three of the search for good beer and evidently, so has the craft beer market in Australia....
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Drinking with the enemy
The next few posts will comprise my travel/beer diary as Bill of Beer discovers more of Australia and the beers they are brewing. This is the second in a six-part series. Day two of finding beer in Australia felt like it wouldn’t hold any surprises to me. We were planning on a trip into...
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