stout
Hello Darkness my old friend.
Porters and Stouts, along with Sours and Gose, are the styles that alienate most beer consumers. The flavours are so big and bold, and a world away from, say the beer “from up here”, that trying them can seem like a chore rather than a passion. A lot of consumers think that there is a seasonal window for drinking them, and to a certain extent, I think they are right. Whilst I can still enjoy a goo...
World Series Cricket Beers.
Way back in the 70’s a movement happened that made a lot of us sit up and take notice….One Day Cricket was born. During the 80’s it evolved to 50overs, C’mon Aussie C’mon ruled the playground chants, not to mention shooting to number one in 1979. This was back when tough men wielded the willow; they were moustachioed, smoked and didn’t cry (well not till a bloke called Kimberley Hughes decid...
Beers for St. Patrick’s Days
It’s Saint Patricks Day on Monday. A time of the year where most of us wear green, say “to be to be sure” way too much and suddenly believe in the wee folk. But most of all we often take in a few of Ireland’s most famous exports, The Pogues, Bing Crosby, U2 and Saint Paddy himself, and Guinness. The idea of having a few quiet ones on Saint Patricks Day comes from an old legend. The story goes that...
Coopers Brewery
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work (Genesis 2:2)…And He had a cold refreshing Cooper’s, said “it’s a thing of beauty, like an angel dancing on ya tongue”, then created the television, watched a little footy and asked Mrs God for another while she was up. (Barefoot Drinker 1.1) It should come as no surprise to those that...
Blue Sky Brewery
I put in some long, hard gruelling hours on Sunday at the Blue Sky Brewery doing literally hours and hours of quality research. Combine that with several hours of research on Friday night at a function for the Minister for War and Finance’s work, and you can probably start to see why I was having trouble getting my legs to work for me until about lunchtime on Monday. I was anxious about going down...