One of the most common questions asked at craft beer tastings is “what is an IPA?”  Beer writer Pete Brown provides a one sentence answer – “India Pale Ale was a beer style created especially for the British Raj in India”. 

The first pilsner beers were sold on 11 November 1842 at the Martinmas Fair [1] in the Czech town of Pilsen. 

Veteran Aussie rugby writer Greg Growden created a furore in New Zealand by suggesting in his Sydney Morning Herald column that a Kiwi Minister of the Crown had behaved appallingly at the Australia-Italy game in North Shore stadium. 

For many years, Western Australia had the unenviable reputation of being a craft beer desert really.  The big brewers were oppressively omnipresent there until the Anchor Brewery (snuggled inside the Sail and Anchor pub) first challenged their dominance. 

Brewing yeast - saccharomyces cerevisiae - is the best micro-organism ever. It is almost certainly humanity’s favourite micro-organism too, having been used to make bread and beer since ancient times. 

A “Cock and Bull Story” is defined variously as “a fanciful and unbelievable tale” or “an interesting but highly implausible story.”  Modern examples would certainly include Eddie Murphy