The beer is flowing across Victoria for Good Beer Week, but the tidal wave is yet to hit. James Davidson takes a look at this weekend's Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular...
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Because beer is a conversation.
James Davidson
James is a typical 20th-century Melbournian, quietly indulging in a dense culture of coffee, bars, the arts, sport and technology.
Like most Australians he spent most his twenties thinking that James Boags Premium Lager was the best Australian beer had to offer. Thankfully, he was challenged to try "something different" by a beer loving friend in 2008. That Pauwel Kwak Belgian strong ale started him on a journey of beer discovery from which he has not looked back.
Fresh into his thirties and surrounded by a booming craft beer industry in Melbourne and across Australia, James spends his weekends exploring as many different beer varieties, brewers and bars as possible from across Australia and beyond, on an eternal hunt for the world’s most enjoyable and unique brews.
Combining his professional experience in Science and Communication with personal passions for music, health and beer (no, that’s not a contradiction!), James joined the global network of beer bloggers and online writers in 2010 to help amplify the chorus calling for a true appreciation of better beer and dispelling the myths and stereotypes surrounding beer drinkers.
Can you turn an unfit VB-loving-bogan into a healthy and intelligent appreciator of beer with a broad palate? James just may be the proof!
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Putting the Great in GABS
Gearing up the Killer Sprocket
James Davidson meets Sean Ryan, the man behind one of Melbourne's latest beer brands, Killer Sprocket...
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High Country in the Big Smoke
Bridge Road Brewing's Ben Kraus and chef Anthony Simone bring their High Country stylings back to Melbourne for Good Beer Week...
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Craft Beer Crusaders
James Davidson speaks with Craft Beer Crusader, Mark Iscaro, about the new community tv show that will premier in Melbourne next Tuesday.
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Good Beer Wheaty 2013
Why Good Beer Wheaty? “Blame the Yeastie Boys,” explains the owners of The Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide. “After several beer-fuelled conversations with Stu and Sam at Melbourne’s 2011 Good Beer Week, we decided it would be an excellent idea to hold a Yeastie Boys concept tasting at The Wheaty.” “When, several months later, the...
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St Patrick’s Day in Australia, no Guinness required
If St Patrick's Day to you means wearing a giant green foam hat on your head and saying "a pint of Guinness thanks", maybe it's time to think a little different...at least about the beer you order.
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Hop harvesting Red Hill style
Last weekend James Davidson went down, sat down and picked a bale of hops as part of Red Hill Brewery's hop picking army. Here's what he saw...
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Building a brewery on 7 cents
Three mates from Victoria are throwing their spare change at Melbourne's growing craft beer obsession, in an increasingly familiar tale of flavour and fun.
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So many beers, only one hundred places
With the dust settled on this year’s Local Taphouse Hottest 100 poll, James Davidson takes time to reflect on what it say about the beer market...
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Holgate’s Millennium Falcon
A long time ago, a galaxy hop away from Melbourne, a brewery was born. They now celebrate their 1000th brew...
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