Beer Insights

Settling Down – The End of Craft Beer Promiscuity?

Craft Beer Promiscuity, When Will It End? Check out any of your favourite beer bloggers websites, or social media feeds, and you will most likely find them talking about the latest, hard to find, limited release beer from “ABC Brewery”. A barrel aged this, a naturally fermented that, or an over the top Quintuple IPA…

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Beer Chauffeurs Popping Craft Beer Cherries

Anyway, he is totally not interested in craft beer, so when he asked if he could come along with me I was surprised, but also recognised it as a chance to convert him to craft beer. As you would expect, there were no clear bottles of flavourless beer at the festival, just good pure craft…

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Today I got called a Beer Snob!

WTF? I am no Beer Snob…or am I? So, the other day I was having a beer with a few mates and was offered a beer…nothing special, just your average Mainstream Lager that any beer consumer would have drunk at some stage in their life. Anyway, I politely declined, preferring to reach into my own…

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Mid-Strength Craft Beer – Can You Dig It?

I love Mid-Strength Craft Beer…are you with me, or against me? There are so many things I love about craft beer…the community and the culture, the variety, the creativity, the taste and the process. But, I have to be honest with you, I am not a huge fan of the higher ABV’s that tend to…

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Revisiting My Top 10 Craft Beers From The USA

Checking back in on my fave American Craft Beer. Last year I took a look at some of my favourite American Craft Beer and came up with the list below. Love it, or hate it, this is the 10 that I came up with, I think there are some ripping beers shown here. I was…

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Is Bali Ready For The Craft Beer Revolution?

Craft Beer In Bali…do they want it? So we have just returned from a family holiday in Bali…and I am cold! It was 32 – 35 degrees celsius there every day, now I am sitting at home in tracksuit pants and a hoodie as I shiver through the second day in Hobart under 15 degrees!…

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#60SecondBeerReview: Moa Festive Belgian IPA

Got 60 Seconds (or so)? Well, Lemme Tell You About This Beer… Back again with another 60 Second Beer Review, and this one comes from New Zealand. If you aren’t aware of the NZ Craft Beer scene, shame on you, but all is not lost…check out my review of this beer from Moa. This is…

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Do We Have Double Standards With Craft Beer Brands?

Are there double standards with the way we think of brands in the craft beer industry, compared to other industries? I don’t have the answer, but it has made me think. The Olympics have been everywhere you look for the past few weeks. I was reading an article the other week about how in previous…

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