There’s a short article over at The Age mapping the decline of the big Australian beers as a failure of their marketing. Their reason for the fall from grace of VB and Carlton: Image is also one of the reasons why there has been strong growth in mainstream craft beers such as James Squire, Little… Continue reading Maybe people aren’t drinking it because it tastes like shit
Author: Phil Lees
Epic Armageddon IPA
If you were going to split beer enthusiasts into two broad churches, one would worship the malt and yeast characters in beers made by actual monks; the other would worship hops and flee to the New World, or more specifically, Portland, Oregon. As for the site of Armageddon, neither party would have picked New Zealand,… Continue reading Epic Armageddon IPA
Last Month on SBS – March 2010
I also write over at SBS’ food blog, Mouthful. Here is the last month of posts: Eels for Jesus The Australian Food Bloggers’ Conference 2010 The perfect Australian burrito What happened to the future of food? The Tabouleh War
The new layout
After deliberating over food blog templates for a good six months, I’ve decided just to make a change to the layout completely on a whim rather than putting in the hard work of redesigning the site. My only gripe with the previous template was the way that it treated short posts – you’d have no… Continue reading The new layout
Loc Lac Variation Spotting
Image via Serving Sake to a Serb Loc Lac (as I’ve talked about before) is one of those dishes in Cambodia that has no authentic version but multitude variations – pretty much any dish which has a primary component of cubed, stir-fried beef fits the bill, which can be fried with anything insofar as it… Continue reading Loc Lac Variation Spotting
Moving your food blog from Blogspot to WordPress
At the Australian Food Blogger Conference yesterday, Michael from My Aching Head mentioned the process of moving a blog from Blogspot/Blogger to WordPress. I’ve had to do this three times over the past few years for friends. Here is the step by step process for moving a blog from Blogspot to WordPress. It does require… Continue reading Moving your food blog from Blogspot to WordPress
At least she didn’t mention the war.
What is the point of swallowing the last 10 years of Hanoi food writing from U.S. magazines, visiting said city for a holiday-come-assignment, talking to the self same people you’ve read about in those U.S. magazines and spewing 2,129 words of uninspired, unoriginal, factually inaccurate, poop out the orifice of an American printing press at… Continue reading At least she didn’t mention the war.
Sapa Hills, Footscray
There are two generations of Vietnamese restaurants in Footscray, Melbourne. The first emulates the tile-and-mirror-walled, cheap metal table joints of the streets of Saigon. The architecture sends a message that hosing down the walls could be a priority, the hall of mirrors effect suggests that the appearance of being busy is as important as really… Continue reading Sapa Hills, Footscray