Episode 9 – Show Notes 

On time again! I’m not sure how, but nor am I questioning it! You’ve hopefully noticed a heap more posts from The Year of Local – I’ve been doing my best, getting out to more new breweries as often as I can! There are a heap more in planning that intend to open this year… Hopefully some of them run into delays as I’m struggling to get to all of them as it is! Anyway, more on that later in the podcast!

We’re going to rotate some segments in and out, especially early on while we get into the swing of things – so if there is anything you love or hate, please let us know! The idea at the moment is that the podcast will be (roughly) monthly, and we’ll try and keep that pretty regular – at least more so than I’ve kept the blog up to date recently… Basically every month we’ll discuss some of the latest news from the beer world, we’ll talk about some beers that we’ve been enjoying over the last month & we’ll crack something interesting from my cellar.

This month the news segment was relatively short – as everyone begins their winter hibernation. We talked about a number of visits to breweries for The Year of Local segment, added lagers from three different continents to our growing Ranking of Lagers table & discussed big black beers – any type of Imperial Stout you can imagine – for our Dessert Island 6-Pack (what a dessert island that would be!) We finished with a cellar beer that we bought together as part of Carwyn Cellars’ pre-Good Beer Week sale. Hope you enjoy the episode!


 Show Notes

News Items (00:30)

  • Westvleteren begin selling beer online
  • Omnipolloscope waxed can
  • Perth Royal Beer Awards – notable results
  • Southern Bay social media issues
  • Ballast Point barrel program being scaled back
  • Stomping Ground Moorabbin to open
Scouting Report (12:45)

  • The Year of Local wrap up
    • 115 Grill & Brewhouse – not open for lunch on weekends…
    • Moon Dog, Fixation, Molly Rose, Bonehead, Henry St, Flying Horse, Sow & Piglets, Salt, Clifton Hill
Ranking of Lagers (25:50)
  • This week we had to slot in Corona (Mexico), Tiger (Singapore) & Tusker (Kenya).
  • The New Rankings are as follows:
    1. Pilsner Urquell (Czech Republic)
    2. Tennent’s (Scotland)
    3. Carlsberg (Denmark)
    4. Kingfisher (India)
    5. Gullmack (Norway)
    6. Sapporo (Japan)
    7. Corona (Mexico)
    8. Heineken (Netherlands)
    9. Tusker (Kenya)
    10. Tiger (Singapore)
    11. Vonu (Fiji)
    12. Cusquena (Peru)

      Desert Island 6-pack (36:42)

      • Imperial Stouts (Russian, American, Milk etc.)
      • The cross overs this month were:
        •  Victory Art Brew Ivan, 
      • Dylan’s 5 individuals;
          • Founders Imperial Stout, Founders CBS, Boatrocker Ramjet, To Øl Liquid Confidence, Evil Twin Even More Coco Jesus
      • Noz’s 5 individuals;
          • Hoppin’ Frog B.O.R.I.S The Crusher, Founders KBS, Firestone Walker Parabola, De Struise Black Albert, Evil Twin Even More Jesus
      • Honourable Mentions
        • To Øl Pineapple Express, Dieu du Ciel Peche Mortel
      Noz’s Cellar (47:36)
      • De Cam Nectarine Lambiek
        • 40kg of Nectarines per 100L
        • Nectarines vs Peaches? 
        • 6.0% ABV
        • Cellared since May 2019
        • Thumbs Up
      Thanks again for listening guys, hope you enjoyed the latest episode. As usual you can get in touch with us by emailing; gus.norris7@gmail.com or Beeroclockau on social media. We managed to keep this episode under an hour, let us know if there’s a particular length you like – the more rambly ones or the shorter, sharper ones like this episode. There will be plenty of The Year of Local posts popping up over the next few weeks as we try and make up some ground on a task that seems to get bigger by the week!

      Remember it’s always Beer O’Clock somewhere in the world!