The Brisbane beer scene has come a long way in the last couple of years. You don’t have to travel very far to find a good beer. There’s now enough good bar options for us to offer a new tour focusing solely on Brisbane craft beer bars.The tour is called the ‘Brisbane Good Beer Bus [...]
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Special discounted tours to Stone & Wood – brewers of Australia #1 beer
This week, Stone & Wood Brewery received a very big accolade indeed – their Pacific Ale took the number 1 spot in the annual Hottest 100 Beers poll. This is a great achievement for Stone & Wood, and is particularly exciting for Thirsty Critters, as we have been stopping in at Stone & Wood for [...]
Brisbane Good Beer Guide 2011
The Brisbane beer scene has changed quite a lot since the first edition of the Brisbane Good Beer Guide a couple of years ago, with some of our favourite haunts falling by the wayside, but also some great new places popping up. The guide below is a listing of South East Queensland and Northern NSW’s [...]
Want 2-for-1 meals to go with your beer? Try the new Brisbane Voucherbook!
Want 2-for-1 meals to go with your beer? Try the new Voucherbook! Discount shopping books are nothing new, they’ve been around for years in various guises offering cheaper meals, products and services to those who buy the booklet of coupons. While those booklets offered all sorts of discounts – often with pretty terrible conditions attached [...]
Thirsty Critters feature article in the Courier Mail
Thirsty Critters was featured in a fantastic article in the Courier Mail today! I have reproduced it in full below, and a scan of the print article is at the bottom. Many special thanks to the Courier Mail’s beer writer, Rory Gibson, for the wonderful words, and to Matt Kirkegaard for the photo. I’m a [...]
Bitter vs Lager: A rant from David Mitchell
British comedian David Mitchell is a little unfamiliar to Australians, unless you’ve ever caught his brilliant comedy series Peep Show, or seen his occassional appearance on QI. He is brilliantly funny in that self-deprecating, nerdy, but incredibly intelligent way that only very few comedians pull off. And here, in this great short video, he expounds [...]
The fun police are out and about in Germany, too
Australian craft beer lovers look longingly to overseas countries such as… well, anywhere, really, as bastions of relaxed drinking cultures. Almost everywhere outside the Islamic world seems to be free of the nanny-state restrictions we are increasingly shackled with. Plastic cups, restricted trading hours, horrific excise, no drinking in public, even being forced to drink [...]
Brews Brothers: Heaven for the armchair brewer
Imagine a world where a friendly brewmaster will brew any variety of beer you like just for you, and you can give him a hand brewing it. A world where your custom-made beer costs half the price that craft beer costs you in the shops. Many Brisbanites are already aware that such a world exists [...]
The beery delights of the Barossa Valley
The unassuming exterior of the Barossa Brewing Company When one thinks of the Barossa, they think of wine. Loads and loads of wine. Thankfully, I’m pleased to report, the Barossa has it’s fair share of decent breweries too. On a recent trip there I experienced almost all the beer that the region had to offer, [...]
This fortnight: Back Alley Beer Club & International Brewers Day events!
There are 3 great events coming up for Brisbane beer lovers in the next fortnight. If you love beer, there’s no excuse to not get along to at least one of these! First up is the ever-reliable Back Alley Beer Club, this Friday at Platform Bar. This time around they’re ‘turning Japanese’ and featuring the [...]