Tag: stout

"If you haven't tasted them side by side, your opinion is invalid."

How To Be A Craft Beer Jerk In 5 Easy Steps

So: you’ve been drinking craft beer for a while now, frequenting craft beer bars, getting to know other craft beer drinkers, and you’re ready for the next stage in your journey. You’re ready to try your hand at …

5 Aussie Craft Beers that rocked my 2016

You know what’s brilliant? Using a day that’s already recognised and celebrated, and piggybacking on it for your own thing. The Triple J Hottest 100 has done this perfectly, and now people all over the world tune in …

A big ol' pint of Pirate Life Stout

Summer in Hobart means winter beers.

I just came back from ten days in Hobart. Hobart is a strange place. It’s summer… but it’s cold. The sun is out until 9pm (it’s like that Insomnia movie with Robin Williams as a psycho)… but it’s cold. …

Birthday Cheer and a Year of Beer.

It’s my birthday today. And since I missed Schoonerversity’s birthday (it was sometime in June, I think), I figured I’d do a little post on my actual birthday. A glance back at beer over the last year. Like …

Beer: My Valentine.

Nowadays, people often celebrate February 14th with chocolates and cartoon love hearts, while forgetting the humble beginnings of the tradition of Valentine’s Day. History tells us that in 273 A.D., on February 14th, Saint Valentine fell from his …