Glen Humphries is an award-winning beer writer, who also writes and publishes books at Last Day of School. You can harangue him on Twitter too.
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:
Hops tend to grab most of the glory in today's beer world, yet barley is beer's backbone. And barley is the star of one rural community's beer, a brew celebrating local Barellan farmers.
October 1, 2015 by Glen Humphries
October 1, 2015 by Glen Humphries
Hops tend to grab most of the glory in today's beer world, yet barley is beer's backbone. And barley is the star of one rural community's beer, a brew celebrating local Barellan farmers.
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