Had I forgotten something from the menu at Little Creatures Dining Hall in Fitzroy? Had I made an unfair comparison to its Western Australian brewery progenitor? In the interests of factual accuracy, I flew across the country to Perth to find out. Click the image to see full panoramic glory On the westside, Little Creatures… Continue reading Little Creatures Brewery, Fremantle
Month: August 2008
Maintaining the spider rage
Ten miles out of town, my guide pulls up at a little shack on a winding roadside. This is real boondocks Cambodia. Little kids are staring at me like they’ve never seen a white man before, which they probably haven’t. From “Man bites frog” I miss the days when I used to rant about the… Continue reading Maintaining the spider rage
Little Creatures, Fitzroy: Invasion from the West
There is only one thing that can turn me off the citrus-y and floral pale ales of Little Creatures Brewery and that is the music of Collette Roberts. Her ode to campanology was blaring across the industrial Viking beer hall that brewery Little Creatures have infested in Fitzroy in Melbourne as I entered. When did… Continue reading Little Creatures, Fitzroy: Invasion from the West
Cold smoking at home: Convert your Weber for $10
I seem to have infected my friends with the charcuterie virus. What started with the occasional foray into a simple pork and garlic sausage is now ending in converting garden sheds into full-sized smokehouses to smoke lanjager and prosciutto. I had a recent discussion about the feasibility of airing ham beneath your average Australian home.… Continue reading Cold smoking at home: Convert your Weber for $10