Articles by Mick Wust
Mick Wust writes fun and dumb things about beer at Schoonerversity, and is a freelance copywriter for the beer industry
The beer(s) or moment(s) that turned you on to good beer:
I'm sure I'd had good beers before this, but the first imperial stout I ever tried made me feel like Popeye with spinach.
You've got three beers to turn someone else on to good beer; what are they and why?
- Old faithful - Stone & Wood Pacific Ale
- Tangy and fun - Green Beacon 7 Bells Passionfruit Gose
- Sweet boozy explosion - Founders Dirty Bastard
The last beer you enjoyed:
Pina Colada IPA by Bucket Boys/Australian Brewery. Like drinking a tropical island.
Three things that represent you:
- Book - World War Z (seriously, read it)
- Travel - Greece
- Food - all the carbs.
Brewing By Design
There's been no shortage of new breweries opening in and around Brisbane in recent years. But, with its Scandinavian influences and no core range policy, Range Brewing looks set to stand out from the crowd, as Mick Wust discovers.
Semi-Pro. But Not Half-Arsed
From a meeting at a beer festival to the need to find a name for a Brewsvegas competition via gypsy brewing at various Queensland locations to finally opening their own brewery in Brisbane, the Semi-Pro story is a classic "figure it out as we go" one, as Mick Wust discovers.
Craft Beer Heroes: Les Riddell
From the Pineapple Hotel via a dark lager epiphany in Canada to The Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst, Bright Brewery, countless snow-covered slopes and then back to the Pineapple Hotel... We take a journey through good beer with Brisbane's beery Spiderman, Les Riddell.
Crafty Crawls: New Farm, Teneriffe & Newstead
Join us on a Crafty Crawl through some of the first Brisbane inner 'burbs to embrace the good stuff. Mick from Schoonerversity may not know exactly where New Farm, Teneriffe and Newstead start and end, but he knows where to find good beer.
Brewed With The Screams Of A Thousand Souls
How do you make a Jack Daniels barrel aged, 11 percent ABV imperial stout even more gnarly. If you're the Brewditos and White Lies Brewing, you expose it to the entire discographies of 14 metal bands while it's taking shape.
Best New Queensland Beers Of 2017
We head to the Sunshine State to find out what our panelists thought were the best new beers released by Queensland brewers in 2017. There were so many, the ten became 11 – and even then there's some honourably mentions too.
All Inn Goes All Out
All Inn Brewing was one of the first of the new wave of Brisbane breweries to open. Now, five years on, the Banyo operation has unveiled a new look, new beers and eye-catching new tinnies too.
Archer Takes Off
A new brewery is taking flight in Brisbane this month. Archer Brewing has been launched by former pilot Stuart Martin, wife Lucy and the man behind Croft Brewing and has found an underground home in the base of the city's International Hotel.
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