Recent content by The Duke

newsflash...... The Duke has to pull out due to a beaut family work BBQ. To make matters worse I may be forced to drink the complimentary VB's. What type of a cruel God would let this happen? sorry lads.

the duke gives his 2 cents thumbs up to the holgate brewery, woodend....1 hour from melbourne. and for fear of offending, my 2 cent thumbs down to portland hotel. yes, the golden harvest summer ale is good but the rest??? can you truely call yourself a brew pub when you get some bloke to come in...

The Duke's in. Any train station near the royston?

i can brew a beer that holds a decent mm or two but I think that a glass like this may help to get a cm of cream that lingers down to the empty glass. worth a try i reckon

very interesting idea rich. have often wrestled with my demons at after work drinks, a little man in my head pleading with me to just take one of those headmaster glasses home and give it a run with the HB. let me know how you go, or maybe someone knows where you can buy these. The only problem...

thanks Gout. in other local news.... this new indian restaurant openned just beside Patterson station - Maharani. Good food, authentic, cheap and.....i love it because they don't mind if you plonk an esky full of HB next to your table. Sat around for a few hours, ate heaps of good food supplied...

spot on Backlane. you think I've got enough land to become self-sufficient? All I need to do is start bartering beer for school shoes and eggs for medicine. Wouldn't it be great to go back to this system. Brewer's would become the blue chips of society.

Here's the latest on The Poor Man; After some tinkering in the vegie patch yesterday I felt like a beer. Daily decision time.....which cupboard do I harvest? Since the cricket was on I went for the Aussie Pale Ale to show some support to my team. While grabbing an Aussie, The Poor Man on the...

just read thread & most interested/excited about getting a vine going. Gout, I too brew from the beautiful suburb of bentleigh, if your soil is as sandy as mine, what have you done to spruce it up or do you just do pots? How reliable is the transportation of rhizomes from Grumpy's and when is...

An awesome site that I have added straight to my "favorites". Thanks SD, now I will spend even more time staring at this screen each day. It would be good to learn of the tricks and variations that brewers have tried and succeeded with. Tipping the manufacturers such as coopers would be...

if you lived in melbourne I'd try The Brew Crew - 9563 9232 50 long necks for $20........second hand jobbies, clean skinned and sterilised. bargain!

Mild mannered school teacher, cycle nut, brew nut. Belong to a group of fellow cycle/brew nuts(Team Punk) that pedal to the philoshophy of every 10km equating to 1 longneck. We ride every Sunday moring and then return to my place for our reward from the team's major sponsor - Duke Classic...

The "poor man" is in the bottle. After doing the usual sniff and sip during the bottling stage I was not expecting much. I had a sip of an immature poor man(10 days) and was pleasantly surprised. fairly raw and a little sweet but there were some interesting rich flavours. I will let another poor...

the wednesday sounds like a better night for us. We could just say that we are off to an evening lecture.

Count The Duke as a starter. Always meant to get to the other one......from memory, first friday of every month. Never tried the beer but would be intrested in the excursion. cheers B.Brewery