Australia

Victories Down Under

April 20, 2007

You may recall that at the end of January, there was an announcement that 19 American craft brewers entered their beers in the the Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA )through the Brewers Association‘s Export Development Program (or EDP). Yesterday the results were announced with several American breweries winning medals. Now the Australian awards are somewhat [...]

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Aussie Beer & Chocolate

April 2, 2007

Despite the questionable questioning question mark in the title, there’s a good, positive beer and chocolate story on tomorrow’s — damned international dateline — “The Age,” a Melbourne, Australia newspaper. When I saw the title, Beer and Chocolate?, and that damnable question mark, I confess that I flinched, expecting the worst. But happily, the author [...]

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Kiwi Beer Drinker of the Year

February 28, 2007

New Zealand has picked up the challenge and today will be hosting their own Beer Drinker of the Year contest which will take place at the Cock & Bull in Te Rapa, Hamilton. Only announced less than three weeks ago by Bruce Holloway, beer and sports writer for the Waikato Times, the contest plans to [...]

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This Here’s the Wattle …

February 16, 2007

I confess I never really knew what exactly a wattle was, apart from some sort of Australian plant. But every time I hear the word — which admittedly doesn’t happen often — I think of the following declaration by the philosphy professors from the University of Woolamaloo in Australia. “This here’s the wattle — the [...]

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