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^ Good idea but wouldn't the Internet make answering the questions more a test of who's fastest at searching via Google than a test of knowledge? But I'd like to see your beer/music associations.

Australia has the third highest beer tax in the world. But according to most respondents on this thread high beer tax has nothing to do with craft breweries going bust. It's the wacky beers, piss poor management, rising energy costs, economies of scale of the big brewers, a market correction...

^ The 1973 TV ad for Courage's "slow brewed" Tankard Bitter brewed in Melbourne and mentioned in the above story. Makes me thirsty. And while Courage tried to make inroads into Australia, Australian beers like Fosters were gaining a big foothold in the UK market as more drinkers moved from...

Yesteryear's pub talk.

And another one bites the dust. Wild Life Brewing in Shepparton, Vic. "a large send off party planned for Saturday February 10th" https://brewsnews.com.au/wild-life-brewing-to-close-in-february/

Australia‘s craft beer system at brink of collapse - as breweries lose battle to multimillion dollar overseas giants by Jack Evans, News.com, 21 Jan 2024 Australia’s once thriving independent brewery scene is at risk of collapse - and there’s a $29 billion reason for it. The start of 2024...

I call to those in the home brewers’ plight, Who long ago left this plot, And buggered off to that other site, Where their hopes are now dashed and lost. To now return where false hopes are fewer, Where old jokers will smile at thee, So come ye back you bloody brewers, Come ye back to AHB.

Have only taken a peek into this amazing compilation from Paris in 1968, but what I’ve seen is extraordinary (almost as much as for the dancing audiences members as for the music). I’m going to start playing the whole 1 ½ hours at 11pm tonight to take me through into the new year. Some...

The great Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues and Wings, died age 79 just a few weeks ago. A multi-instrumentalist he mainly played guitar, and for a long time was the side kick of Paul McCartney in those uncertain post Beatles years of the 1970s. While Linda was McCartney’s soul mate...

Newly released cover by the MonaLisa Twins of Everybody’s Talking, a 1966 song made famous by Harry Nilsson’s version which was used as the soundtrack in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy. Whereas Nilsson’s cover used soaring violins to capture the feeling of lonesome pining for freedom as sung in...

Sunday roast in Azerbaijan.

(bump) https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/a-medieval-cold-and-flu-remedy/

Love it when modern artists cover the great old toons of the past. Keeps them alive for a new generation to discover, and some covers are ‘better’ (always a personal value judgement) than the originals or give a new interpretations to old classics. But for some great old numbers there are few...

Cover versions come in all shapes and sizes. I like the shape of this one.

I don't know. But he could get four Michelin tyres for the van.

Anglo-Irish singer Shane McGowan, co-founder of The Pogues, died a few days ago just short of his 66th birthday. His band fused Irish folk music with London punk. And with Shane’s bad teeth and their use of traditional instruments they stood in earthy contrast to the garish ‘Glam Rock’ scene...

(Good thread TwoCrows) I keep returning to this bloke’s cooking channel. A retired chef who hits the road in a camper van travelling through small towns in France, Spain and Portugal. Visits local markets and chats to the locals about their food. Simple rustic stuff. Then he cooks it up. Simply...

Great medley by some great musos.

And these guys, still closing out concerts with a song they released back in 1975.