Hoegaarden vs the best beer ever..
I went out to the garage earlier and bought two bottles of Hoegaarden in from the beer fridge. One was the commercial version out of a plastic wrapped four pack bought from Aldi a week ago. The other, a custom Hoegaarden recipe from U-Brew-It, tweaked with dried orange peel and coriander seed added at the [...]
It had been talked about for years, we had experimented with home brew, tasted the best of the micro-brewers and sampled the best of the home-brewers. The time had come to finally make our own beer from (almost) scratch. So Adam, Ron and I headed to Keilor’s U-Brew-It where for $180 you can make [...]
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Three or four years ago Temple crested the wave of micro-brewers in Melbourne, they were the brewers everyone talked of, everyone aspired to be, and some even started to diss their experimental style, as is the case when greatness rises quickly. They surfed on the wave created by there Saison, a farmhouse ale which is [...]
Continue reading …Wine and Beer in Northern Victoria – Strathbogie ranges/Goulbourn River
November 27, 2011 No Comment
Bright blue skies, great wine, great beer and the Aussie bush what more could you want on a perfect spring day in Australia. A beautiful sunny 25 degree spring day greeted me in Melbourne as I headed north toward Seymour only an hour from the outskirts of Melbourne and the old but not widely known [...]
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Thursday the 20th of October 2011, the most auspicious date on the Australian beer lovers calendar. Well since autumn and the last Melbourne micro-brewers festival. Held biannually at the atrium Federation Square this two evening event has become the most popular beverage tasting event in Victoria. I first encountered this off shoot of the monthly [...]
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Ever felt like a beer but are sick and tired of the usual corporate breweries that you know hold little love for their product but strive to make huge profits. Have you ever been inspired to brew your own beer and thought, for the love of beer I am going to give this a try. [...]
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One forgets the beauty of Australia when the endless repetition of home, train, office and return consumes every waking hour of the modern adult. Recently I escaped from this treading water by driving 45min north of Adelaide to the world famous Barossa Valley. It was not my first visit, as a teenager I had driven [...]
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Grenache is a divisive grape some love it others hate it. I recall a wine maker in Heathcote home to some of Victoria’s best Shiraz (syrah) telling me she hated the smell, hated the look, and hated the taste of Grenache. Each to their own and this quaffer loves it. The Barossa is famous for [...]
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