Posts Tagged ‘ lists ’

Well, as we look back on yesterday’s Australia Day festivities we can say, “what a day beer fans!” The Local Taphouse’s Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers was announced in a rolling and excitement building process yesterday. With the first 90 beers names in batches of ten, the top ten were rolled out one at a...
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Well it’s been a long run to this point. We have seen Pale Ales, we have seen IPAs and we have seen double IPAs. We have seen beers light and dark. We have seen beers from breweries large and small, owned by massive public companies and by small private ones that define the purists...
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“The King is dead! Long live the King!” After holding the number one spot in the first two Hot 100 lists at The Local Taphouse and in the hearts of many drinkers, Little Creatures has fallen. All the way to number two. To put this into some sort of context, consider that 448 different beers...
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The countdown of the Critics’ Choice top 12 has been generating quite a bit of chatter online with all sorts of debate about the list. But if there has been one beer name that has risen above the general din of discussion as being a beer that punters demand to be in any credible...
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Even as a contributor to the book, as each beer is revealed it is a surprise to me. Though perhaps the bigger surprise would have been if this beer had been omitted from the top 5. It certainly lives up to the brewery’s boast that “it is also one of the highest rated beers...
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It lost its title of ‘Best Australian Lager’ in somewhat controversial circumstances in this year’s Local Taphouse Hottest 100, but Knappstein Reserve Lager has reclaimed the top lager spot – and the title of Australia’s 5th best beer – in the Critics’ Choice list. I’m not sure whether it’s that lagers just don’t get much love from aficionados,...
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Beer styles are a funny thing. We need style definitions so that we can describe a beer and categorise it, and even to have beer competitions, but slavish adherence to style just stifles innovation and fossilises beer. So it is great to see that a beer that confounds style descriptions can still be critically...
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Little World Beverages has established itself as a big player in the Australian beer world as the owner of Fremantle’s Little Creatures Brewery and more recently in Healesville, Victoria, with the White Rabbit Brewery. Building the business on high quality and flavoursome, but marketable, beers is proving a winner and has seen the first...
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When I feature beers at beer appreciation classes and describe them as having flavours of chocolate, coffee and mocha and suggest pairing them with chocolate cake and ice-cream, I am usually met with blank looks at best, or sheer scepticism at worst. So a beer that is made with Dutch cocoa and whole vanilla...
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Creating a favourite beer list is an incredibly difficult thing. Is Australia’s ‘best’ beer an esoteric beer that only five true beer aficionados really appreciate, or some hop monster that is more in the way of trial by ordeal to test the drinker’s beer cojones. Or is the best beer the one that you...
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