Reg C. 
You’ve probably heard the story. The QWERTY keyboard – the one your fingers are resting on right now – was deliberately designed to slow typists down. Old mechanical typewriters would jam if you typed too quickly, so the keys were scrambled to keep your fingers from flying and breaking the machine. A neat, satisfying piece … Read more
Imagine it’s late June. The days are long. The year feels like it’s hitting its stride. And then, instead of lurching directly into July, time does something unexpected. It offers you one more month. Twenty-eight days sitting between the two halves of the year like a hammock strung between two trees. Warm. Unhurried. Without history. … Read more
Here’s something to ruin your Tuesday: the calendar you use every single day of your life is a 2,000-year-old bodge job held together by tradition, papal decree, and the collective refusal of the entire human race to fix something that is obviously, demonstrably, quietly maddening. Consider this. How many days are in February? It depends. … Read more
Every now and then, something happens in music that splits the world into before and after. A record. A performance. A photograph. One of those moments where you can actually point to a single day – a single minute – and say: that’s when everything changed. The Beatles didn’t just have one of those moments. … Read more
Here is the challenge every serious craft brewer knows: making a beer with full flavour, real complexity, and genuine character at under 4% ABV is genuinely hard. There’s less alcohol to carry the flavour. Less body to support the aroma. It’s technically demanding in a way that big, boozy IPAs simply aren’t. Which is exactly … Read more
Long before the stout existed, before craft beer existed, before most beer styles as we know them were invented – there was the porter. Born in 18th-century London, the porter was the working person’s beer, named reportedly for the market porters and labourers who drank it. It is, in many ways, the original dark beer … Read more
This is the style that doesn’t get talked about enough. While pale ales take the headlines and IPAs win the Instagram posts, amber and red ales sit quietly in the middle of the beer world, being reliably, wonderfully delicious and largely underrated. It’s time to change that. What Are Amber and Red Ales? Amber ales … Read more
Here’s a sentence that doesn’t immediately sound like a recommendation: this beer tastes sour. And yet people order them constantly. Lines form for them at craft beer festivals. Breweries age them in barrels for years. They are, genuinely, some of the most fascinating and delicious things being made in Australian brewing right now. What Makes … Read more
You love a lager. You drink lager happily. But lately you’ve been wondering if there’s something that has the same refreshing drinkability but just a little more… going on. There is. It’s called a pilsner. And it’s been waiting patiently for you. What Is a Pilsner? Technically a subcategory of lager, the pilsner was born … Read more
The most misunderstood beer in the world. People look at it, see something the colour of midnight, and assume it’s going to taste like drinking a burnt chocolate cake. So they order a lager instead. Those people are missing out. Let’s fix that. What Is a Stout? Stout is a dark ale brewed with roasted … Read more