A good sour should still taste like beer. This barrel-aged cherry sour from Ballarat brewer, Dollar Bill, is excellent. It has a real depth of flavour, a clean finish and an all-round well-balanced flavour profile. On tap at the moment at Midtown Cellars.
A list of tiny pleasures all rolled into one afternoon: sunshine, friends, gin, interesting work chat, native botanicals, sitting on the platform of the old goods shed (which is now Itinerant Spirits, who make excellent drinks, served with a smile). It all feels a bit like summer.
If you're in Queenscliff on a nice day, I highly recommend wandering into the Vue Grand Hotel, grabbing a drink from the bar, then taking three flights of stairs up to the roof top. There you are treated to a 360 degree view of the town and the surrounding waters. If you're lucky - as
It feels quintessentially Brunswick to be sitting in a bar on Sydney Road, listening to afternoon ultra-groove and surrounded by 1970s decor. Trams are running past the window with their familiar metallic swoosh, jostling with the peak hour traffic. Brunswick Green
The tables are slowly turning after almost two decades of parenting. Now I get to borrow stuff from the kids. I have a new project that needs a black bow tie and my son had just the thing. Perhaps this marks the start of borrowing in this direction.
I love a good tasting session, especially in a well-appointed tasting room. The baby stills in the background a fully functioning and served as the perfect eye-candy for my Prickly Moses beer tasting paddle. The tasting room at the Queenscliff Brewhouse was a delightful escape from the football crowd in the main bar. As expected,
Thanks for having me, Itinerant Spirits. It was lovely to play in your bluestone acoustics filled with lovely people, staff and punters. (Photo of post-gig happy face.)
I'm playing at Itinerant Spirits on Thursday night. As a distillery, they have a cocktail special matched with the musician. I flipped through my cocktail book looking for inspiration and found this page. The French Whore sounds very tasty!
There's something about Friday that just feels better with a glass of wine in a nice little bistrot. Woods Yard in Albert Park is doing it perfectly. A beautifully balanced Albariño from Margan in Orange is in my glass next to a tasty bowl of olives.
The dregs of a dark beer on a winter afternoon. A sign of time well spent in conversation and contemplation.
