by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I took a couple of weeks off because of a lack of internet access but I did write a piece a few weeks ago about crazy people in beer. To the Tweet(s) of the Week!
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I looked at the coolness of beer and Violent Soho. There’s not much of beery interest to discuss this week. I bypassed Tusk, thanks to an excessive amount of work. I spent the afternoon (these posts are usually assembled on Sunday) drinking homemade mead and I can already feel a horrible headache forming. I only checked-in one beer last week and it was pretty goddamn average and of the three others beers I’ve had this week, I […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I talked about my attempts to make some mead. I spent Saturday on a bit of bender (with the Westbender no less), starting at an Oktoberfest-themed house party featuring thirteen kegs of homebrewed beer. Most of the beer was excellent and, to my palate, the equal of many commercial breweries. Once things started to get out of hand, we moved on to Yard Bird, the new Woolly Mammoth, Super Whatnot and finishing at Bosc. Yard Bird […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I wrote a brief missive about homebrewing and it’s impact on my relationship with beer for The Session. I didn’t get down to Five Flavours on the weekend, which was a shame. I ended up spending Sunday morning getting a hell of a sunburn participating in Robbie McEwen’s Gran Fondo – 5 hours, 136km, two mountains, loads of pain. At least nourishing ales were on the menu last night, although it seemed with the long weekend […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I did manage to get a promo up for the next Five Flavours event on Facebook. There’s a promo code for discounted tickets included so I suggest clicking that link. Even more excitingly, this is the blog’s 300th post. In a little under twenty-one months, we’ve managed to write an enormous load of words about beer. Not all of them are great – that goes without saying – but with that much literature, there’s bound […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, five flavours, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, we, uh…well, this is embarrassing. We don’t seem to have written anything. To be fair, I’ve only got a handful of articles that I want to write this year but none of them are lined up and when shit hits the fan, beer blogging is the first thing that gets cut, which is the way it should be. So let’s pretend I wrote this fairly glorious review on Brewed, Crude and Bitter (which I patently didn’t […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I compared GABS beers then and now. So this edition of Monday Reading is a bit late. I blame Armakeggon yesterday, the resulting nap (which was very much required) and then the world’s worst sleep that night which ruled out me getting anything done this morning. More details will be forthcoming this week. Beer of the Week comes from a tough selection given the aforementioned festival. I’m going to give it to Riverside Brewing’s 777 Double IPA. It’s […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer news, craft beer, cyclocross, czech lager, duff beer, hops, monday reading, tinfoil hat
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, I wrote about the Charming Squire with a charming title. A quieter week on the beer front with ammo out of town and me dealing with the world’s smallest cold. Armakeggon, however, is this Sunday, which I’m pretty goddamn excited about. Beer of the Week is Swan fucking Draught. You can thank ammo for that one. She said it didn’t taste like piss which is about the highest compliment you can pay these beers. On the other […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer cans, beer news, cans, craft beer, monday reading
by Liam
Last week on Drunken Speculation, ammo made another pie, this time with Brewcult’s Pepper Steak Porter, and I went long with Bulimba Gold Top. On Saturday last week, we were featured in Beer is Your Friend’s new Meet the Beer Media series. It’s a bit of fun for those of us who make a habit of writing about beer and picks up where the Crafty Pint series left off. Meanwhile, ammo hit up Fremantle on Friday night – she’s working […]
Categories: 2014 • Tags: beer, beer cans, beer news, cans, craft beer, monday reading