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  • St Patrick’s Day: Know Your Beers

    St Patrick’s Day: Know Your Beers

    If you’re looking for more authentic ways to celebrate St Patrick’s Day this March 17th than shamrock hats and green food dye in your beer, seek out these classic Irish beers to please every palate.

  • Is gluten free beer worth drinking?

    Is gluten free beer worth drinking?

    As with all things gluten free, the taste and texture of variations of foods that typically include wheat can be disappointing. It turns out beer is no exception. Most beers are made with malt, which is made of barley, a grain that includes the gluten protein most known for its presence in wheat. As more…

  • Pilsner Beer Styles

    Pilsner beers are a variety of lager beers, the result of brewers in Bavaria experimenting around with brewing beer in icey mountain caverns. The process was slower, but it also resulted in yeast and other solids gathering in the bottom of the barrel. This bottom fermenting process turned out a light coloured drink with a…

  • Hix Beer Review: Pale & Brown Ales

    Hix Beer Review: Pale & Brown Ales

    Today we had the pleasure of sampling two Hix beer brews from Hickinbotham of Dromana, a winery, brewery, and restaurant on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Andrew Hickinbotham was kind enough to send us a few sample bottles of the Hix beer pale and brown ales.

  • Beer Styles: Pale Ales

    Pale ale is the term used to define beer that was made with malts dried with coke (a form of coal). Although the use of coke for roasting malt dates back to 1642, the term Pale Ale€ was first recorded around 1703. What are pale ales? The Pale Malts gave the beer a lighter colour…

  • The Key Elements of Beer Styles

    Since there are so many varieties of beer around the world, it has become necessary to set certain guidelines on the styles of beer that help classify similar beers. A beer style is basically just a classification assigned to beers based on their appearance, aroma, flavor and point of origin. To broaden your knowledge about…

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This is how it all started…

One Sunday afternoon my girlfriend Kathy and I were visiting the Oakleigh Brewcraft store (A home brew supplies store near Melbourne) to grab ingredients for a traditional English IPA. After chatting to the friendly staff were lucky enough to get a tour of the warehouse!

We started talking about websites, and I mentioned that I had built directory websites for clients, and really wanted to build one for myself but wasn’t sure what to focus on. The biggest advertising dollars are in real estate, cars and insurance, but I knew it needed to be something I’m passionate about to really work.

Well, standing there in the Oakleigh Brewcraft warehouse the answer was all around me, and thanks to Kathy for stating what seems so obvious afterwards. “Build a directory of Australian breweries, home brew stores and brewery tours!”. As soon as I got home I registered www.FindaBrewery.com.au, brewed a nice IPA, and got to coding;)

Chris Finnegan

www.seocopilot.com.au