Australian Adventures, Brews + Reviews, Homegrown, My Pilgrimages, Travel finds

Melbourne Beer Crawl

Beer crawls. I am extremely passionate about them, I genuinely think there are few more enjoyable ways to spend your day then to wander from brewery-to-brewery sipping fresh beer under the very tanks it was brewed in. And while the good old fashioned beer crawl has been put on hold while COVID runs amok, it’s…

Beer + Food Matching, Brewing, Brewing + Ingredients, Brews + Reviews, My Pilgrimages, Overseas, Travel finds

Journey through the land of the Kölsch

The locals of Cologne, Germany say they drink so much of the stuff their blood runs golden and fizzy.. its the light, fresh, tasty Kölsch and I went straight into the depths of it’s homeland to taste it about as fresh as it gets!

Brewing, Brewing + Ingredients, Brews + Reviews, Homegrown

Wildflower – Australian Wild Ales

There is a beautiful new addition to the blossoming craft beer mecca of Sydney’s inner-west called ‘Wildflower’ that incorporates a unique brewing technique that involves fermenting beer with native bacteria and yeast foraged from wild flora around the state. I caught up with Wildflower’s owner and creator Topher Boehm to tell us all about his…

Australian Adventures, Brewing, Brewing + Ingredients, Brews + Reviews, Food + Beer, Homegrown, My Pilgrimages

Sydney’s Inner West Beer Trail

It seems like each time I leave Sydney and come back, another brewery has opened it’s doors and you can bet your lucky beer mug that it did so in the hip and happening inner west region of the city. There are now so many craft breweries in the inner west, you can literally walk…

Food + Beer, News

Oktoberfest in The Hunter

Oktoberfest is well and truly in full swing, however you don’t have to be in Germany to take part in the beery festivities, in fact you don’t even have to be in Europe. If you love your beer, then you should head on down to Hope Brewhouse in the Hunter Valley on the 30th September and…

My Pilgrimages, Overseas, Travel finds

24 HOURS IN LEIPZIG

Brews + Reviews, My Pilgrimages, Overseas, Travel finds

THE LAND OF THE HOLY ALE: TRAPPIST BELGIUM – Inside the secretive world of Westmalle..

“Now.. you can’t film, or take photos. We have to meet our escort and discuss how we will document this, but really the monks are very secretive. I can’t even believe we have been allowed in!”. We are standing at a huge iron gate outside ‘Westmalle’ Monastery in an attractive rural region of Northern Belgium…

Brews + Reviews, My Pilgrimages, Overseas, Travel finds

A peek at Bergkirchweih – The World’s Oldest Beer Festival

Could this be Germany’s best beer festival?? And no it’s not Munich’s Oktoberfest… It’s the lesser known Bergkirchweih Festival in Erlangen – It’s the world’s oldest beer festival and attracts over a million people over a 12 day period. Having never been to Oktoberfest in Munich I can’t compare but the locals say this one…

Brews + Reviews, My Pilgrimages, Overseas, Travel finds

Beer-Lovers Guide to Bavaria Part II : Bamberg to Erlangen.

BAMBERG  Having avoided the destruction of allied bombing campaigns during the first and second world wars, the stunning Franconian town of Bamberg stands today as a living reminder of what quaint, old-world Germany used to be. It is possibly the most beautiful town in all of Germany and carries on a centuries old brewing tradition…

Brews + Reviews, My Pilgrimages, Overseas, Travel finds

EURO BEER TOUR // Beer-Lovers Guide Bavaria Part I : Munich.

When most look at a map of Europe they see ancient history, incredible food, culture, architecture, art and a hip and happening fashion scene. I see beer. I see a kaleidoscope of beer varieties that date back centuries. I see beer cultures that influenced the rest of the world and a contemporary craft beer scene…

Australian Adventures, My Pilgrimages

Beer Lovers Guide to Brisbane

There are few places that have taken to the diverse contemporary world of beer as passionately and as quickly as Brisbane. Brisbane’s beer scene is barely recognisable to what it was 5 years ago (it’s a different world entirely to Brissy 10 years ago!). Craft beer pubs, micro breweries and beer festivals are popping up…

Australian Adventures, Brews + Reviews, Homegrown, My Pilgrimages

Fremantle ‘BeerFest’

A title like ‘BeerFest’ tends to conjour up images of college jocks skulling cheap beer from red plastic cups in their underwear to the latest Ke$ha ‘track’, but I can happily say that the ‘Fremantle BeerFest’ could not be anything further from that. As soon as I walked in, I was impressed. The balmy 27…

Australian Adventures, My Pilgrimages

Beer Pilgrim’s Guide to the East Coast (Sydney to Brisbane)

There is no stretch of coastline I feel I know better than the Australian East Coast. I literally grew up yo-yoing my way up and down this beautiful part of he world from the age of minus 9 months until now (and will probably continue to for the rest of my life!). Being a passionate…

Brewing + Ingredients

How to Brew an ‘Ice Cave’ Lager

If you are curious exactly how we made your Snow Cave Lager, including ingredients and method, check it out here!

Australian Adventures, Food + Beer, My Pilgrimages

Beer Cultures of the World…of Australia. A guide to the beer-drinking traditions of Australia’s multicultural population.

  From loud Italian seafood barbecues to candlelit Spanish Tapas restaurants, to Russian Masonic centres draped in red fabric, to Chinese karaoke bars and Japanese sushi joints, the vast and various cultural groups of Australia are all doing the same thing but in vastly different ways – drinking beer. Let’s take a quick tour around…

Australian Adventures, My Pilgrimages

Top 5 Best Pubs In The Snowy Mountains

I recently found a few great places in the Snowies for a brew or two. Check these ones out next time you’re in the area. And if you have any suggestions for places I missed out on in my short time down there– let me know! Write a short review and I’ll include the best ones in…

Food + Beer

The Epic Journey Of Lager

  Let me introduce you to Lager, the ridiculously popular beer style that is worth over 250 billion dollars worldwide each year. Always present and often misunderstood, lager has one of the most dramatic stories of all the beer varieties and I’ve been on a personal mission to find out all about it! This is…

Australian Adventures, Food + Beer, My Pilgrimages

The Top 12 places to have a beer in Melbourne

Ok, so I couldn’t stop at 10. In fact, I found it very difficult to cap it at 12, and still know I missed out heaps of Melbourne gems, so I’m relying on you to finish off this list for me!   Slow Beer claims to be the country’s first 100% dedicated craft beer store….

Cooking with Beer, Food + Beer

Delicious James Squire Ale-braised Mussels in less than 15 minutes!

Australian Adventures, Food + Beer, My Pilgrimages

Top 10 Best Post-Surf Pubs in Australia

Whether you are a complete wax-head, surfer-nut, a beginner or just like to sit back and watch people get smashed by huge waves, I think you will agree that there is nothing quite like having an after surf beer. Some of my best memories are kicking back with my mates and a few brews after…

Australian Adventures, My Pilgrimages

South Australian Beer Trail

Over the past week I’ve hit up some of South Australia’s biggest and smallest breweries to sample their wares (it’s a hard job…. I know). If you’re heading down to South Australia, here is a list of must-visit breweries you need to check out! Note: I have written this list in geographical order from Adelaide…

Australian Adventures, Brewing + Ingredients, My Pilgrimages

The Beer Pilrim’s Guide to Hops and The Tassie Hop Harvest

  With the sweet, floral aroma of fresh hops swirling around inside my Kombi and the fresh, crisp air of the Tasmanian countryside wafting through the window, you couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. It was a beautiful day and I felt like I was in 7th heaven! It was Hop Harvest time in…

My Pilgrimages, Overseas

Weirdest Beer Experiences

Big Baobab Tree Bar, Limpopo Province, South Africa This has to be one of the coolest and weirdest places to have a beer. At a bar, inside the trunk of a living tree. I’d imagine it would feel like you have gone down the rabbit hole and ended up in wonderland. Try telling your mates…

Cooking with Beer, Food + Beer

Making Beer Can Chicken

I’m not going to tip-toe round the subject: you have to put an open beer can up a chicken’s rear-end. It feels weird and slightly awkward, but once you have jumped that hurdle. Prepare yourself for the best damn roast chicken you have ever tasted. The beer steams away from the inside keeping the chicken…

My Pilgrimages, Overseas

Top 10 Places to Have A Brew With A View

We are all searching for that ultimate beer-moment (well I am anyway..) and as I mentally flick through my album of travel memories, a few moments really stick out. These moments more often than not, involve a great view. It’s that moment when you reach the top of a mountain and a huge vista opens…