BABBs for GABS Brew Day: ‘Hold the Pork’ Sweet and Sour Rice Lager 

March 30, 2023 By Nick Holt Late last year, Phil and Dan from Hiker Brewing in Salisbury asked BABBs to collaborate on a GABS beer this year. They asked us to come up with a concept and they would help us...

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International Travel: Düsseldorf and Cologne

April 23, 2021 A brief memoir by Liam Anderson One of my favourite things to do this past year has been to remind friends (and any captive audience) about the beer-centric trip around parts of Europe my...

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A Brief History of Barrel

November 19, 2020 A history of the club wild brew project by Stephen Wharton and Dion Clark The Backstory Back in early 2010 the then head brewer of Mount Tambourine Brewery and active BABBs member, Ian...

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Hilltops Hops: Brisbane’s Own Hop Farm

May 14, 2020 by Dion Clark Steve from Hilltops very generously hand delivered three pots of Chinook hop plants to my door recently. As a token of my gratitude, and in normal home brewer fashion I gave...

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QABC 2019 Wrap-up

September 23, 2019 By Steve “Snow” Wharton The annual Queensland Amateur Brewing Championships (QABC) were held recently at Newstead Brewing Co in Milton. The largest event in the competition’s history,...

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Mish’s German BrEUventure

February 10, 2019 By Mish Woodhouse. This winter we thought we’d duck the cold and head over to Europe for 7 weeks, my cousin was getting married in England in the 7th week, so we thought we’d...

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Women’s Brew Day 2017

October 30, 2017 By Mish “Mash” Woodhouse. The weather was ominous but the mood was positive as Donna, Anna and I started setting up for Womens Brew Day (#WBD2017). Ben, legendary distiller and...

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Big Brew Day 2017

August 22, 2017 By Steve Wharton (Snow). On the morning of Saturday 5th August, a number of BABBs members tuned up to Dan Angus’ place in East Brisbane to conduct a mass brewing demonstration. The aim of...

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