Articles by Glen Humphries

The beer that turned me onto good beer:

Beechworth Pale Ale: I’d just started writing beer reviews for the Illawarra Mercury and really didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Ben at Bridge Road still sent me some beers anyway. The Beechworth was in that box.

I can still remember being so overwhelmed by the aroma wafting out of the beer glass, that I spent a good amount of time just sitting there breathing it in. Had never done that with a beer before.

You've got three beers to turn someone else on to good beer; what are they and why?

• Beechworth Pale – Because it worked for me.

• Schofferhoffer Hefeweizen: Because it tastes like lolly bananas and therefore is likely to change a mainstream beer drinker's perception of what “beer” is (I have a theory that many people think beer just comes in one flavour). Plus, I like hefeweizens.

• 5 Barrel Brewing Milkshake IPA: Just because it’s so tasty. And because it’s a hometown beer for me.

Last beer you enjoyed?

A sour English IPA I had at a Wollongong homebrewers’ gathering. As is the case with some homebrew, it wasn’t great when it was first kegged, but after a couple of months things changed in a most wonderful way.

Three things that represent you:

• Books
• The St George Illawarra Dragons
• An inability to recognise any of the songs triple J plays these days