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Why the Dave’s Team is excited for GABS!

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Team Dave’s is heading to GABS! One of Australia’s greatest beer festivals, GABS offers a full spectrum of food, entertainment and of course the unique beers! Here at Dave’s GABS is like our Christmas and we can barley contain our excitement! Below, the team talks about what they are most looking forward to at GABS….

There’s Beer in the Hunter Valley?

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Sydney has such a great range of breweries that it can be easy to forget that there’s excellent beer outside of the city as well. That’s why, as we have started to grow and expand our tours, we decided to look regionally, and we are excited to announce that the Hunter Valley is the perfect…

Easter Beers Matched with Chocolate

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  Beer and chocolate might sound like an odd combination, but they have more in common than you may think. Coffee, malt and chocolate are all produced via roasting, which results in them sharing nutty, toasted and slightly bitter flavours. This process helps to bridge the gap between your two new best friends – Beer…

Australian Sour Beers That You Can Try

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Once a style of beers only consumed by the most elite beer nerd, shared with reverence in private bottle shares and hidden in the back of particular bottle-shops “in the know”. Sour beers have seen a big resurgence internationally and are gaining in popularity throughout Australia. We talked in our last post about how sour…

Sour Beers – A Gateway To Better Beer

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The term “Gateway Beer” is used a lot in the beer drinking circles. Some people call it their “epiphany beer”, for others it’s the “beer”, but for all it means the same thing. It is that beer that gives you that lightbulb moment where it all starts to make sense. That beer that opens the…

Wayward Brewing Co.

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In the back lanes on the border of Camperdown and Annandale Wayward Brewing Co, like many of Sydney’s breweries sits in a spot that many of us have gone past a hundred times and never thought about what happens inside. Just off Pyrmont Bridge road the building’s exterior looks pretty nondescript. But once you turn…

Noble Hops

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What are Noble Hops?  You may have heard the term “noble hops” floated around in a conversation about beer or brewing. While it may sound a bit pretentious to call them “noble”, these hops are considered to be the most sought after aroma hops for making traditional lagers and Belgian ales. While these hops are…

Festive Brews & Food Pairings

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No self-respecting Aussie Christmas dinner is complete without a fridge full of cold beer, but with such a vast array out there on the market, which should you serve? Well, that all depends on your menu of course. You may be familiar with the concept of pairing wines with food, but did you know beer…

Christmas Kegs in the Kitchen

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Team Dave are getting in the festive spirit with some Christmas Ale Jaffa Fudge! The bearded man with the big sack is due any day now, and in the spirit of all things merry and bright, we thought we’d get a little bit experimental in the kitchen and chuck together a Christmas recipe for you…