Matthew on June 10th, 2010

Beer Review – Baltika 4
Here we have a complete Mystery Beer…. which turned out to be a Russian Beer called Baltika 4.
Beer Number 16 in my Forty Birthday Beers was, upon first sight, totally unreadable.  My Russian is totally non-existant, and the label was all in hieroglyphics (and/or Russian).

The 500 ml bottle is certainly a good size.  [...]

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Matthew on March 29th, 2010

Beer Review – Tsingtao Beer
Another beer and another Special Guest…. while this is not an official Birthday Beer, it does feature my friend Chris. 
Regular visitors to FortyBeers.com will know that my three friends – Phoebe, Simon and Chris – contributed to a birthday gift for me a while ago.  As a means to share this [...]

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Matthew on December 17th, 2009

Beer Review – Leather Jacket Lager – from Fish Rock Brewery in Australia.
Yet again, I have been very busy, and yet again I have not had the time to enjoy a good birthday beer.  So, planning ahead, I put Beer Number 10 of my Forty Beers into the ‘fridge, and waited for an appropriate moment.
The [...]

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Matthew on November 8th, 2009

Beer Review – Sol Mexican Beer – Cerveza Importada
Again, it has been a little while since my last beer review… this time I’ve been in a little town called Jamieson, which is about 3 hours drive north east of Melbourne.  Jamieson is near Mount Buller – one of the well known ski mountains within striking [...]

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