Posts Tagged ‘ reviews ’

Book Review: Beer, Mines & Rails

September 29, 2011
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Beer, Mines & Rails: A history of the brewing industry in Queensland to the 1920s Dr Brett J. Stubbs Tankard Books $39.00 Beer and brewery history is fascinating. It’s the story of people and society, science and technology. As the James Squire brand shows it can be turned into a compelling back story for...
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How the critics chose

March 25, 2011
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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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Book Reviews: The Brewery and The Pub

December 6, 2010
Book Reviews: The Brewery and The Pub

The Australian Pub Diane Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Chris McConville. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2010 ISBN 9780868408750 $49.95. The Brewery by Andrew T. T. Bailey. Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne, 2010 ISBN 9781921667589, $95.00. Those with an interest in the history of the making and drinking of beer in Australia will be delighted...
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Scales and Ales

November 2, 2010
Scales and Ales

Beer and seafood is always a good pairing, but Graham Reeks finds a restaurants that is all about scales and ales...
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Book review: Amber, Gold and Black

October 21, 2010
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Graham Reeks finds that you can't always judge a beer book by its cover...
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Blue Sky Brewery, Cairns

October 4, 2010
Blue Sky Brewery, Cairns

Victorian James Davidson heads into the far north and finds that while they do things differently up there, there's still plenty to like about the beer...
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The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide

September 27, 2010

Aaron Caruana checks out an Adelaide icon and comes away smiling...
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1001 beers you must try before you die

August 10, 2010
1001 beers you must try before you die

If you love beer and making lists about them, this is a book for you...
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Carlton Natural

June 26, 2010
Carlton Natural

Fosters has just released the latest of its mainstream beer offering under its Carlton brand.
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The Gold Digger’s Arms

June 24, 2010
The Gold Digger’s Arms

The Gold Digger’s Arms: Pubs of the Upper Clarence River District, New South Wales By Brett J. Stubbs In this book Brett J. Stubbs, an environmental historian and Australia’s leading historian of beer and breweries, turns his hand to local history, albeit a local history that reflects his areas of expertise. Typical of most...
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