Now before anyone goes jumping to any wild conclusions, I need to bash out a disclaimer. Acland Cellars is without a doubt my favourite boutique bottleshop of all time. The beer wall as soon as you enter the store is the most magnificent thing I've ever seen, and this is including the time I got to climb the Leaning Tower of Pisa as a 6 year old kid. Though for some reason wasn't allowed to climb the Eiffel Tower, which is safer since it's not so, you know, lean-y and falling over and shit.Anyhoo... since moving to Northcote, trips to St Kilda to fulfill my imported beer desires has been nothing short of a pain in the hole. So much so that I haven't even bothered to try. C'mon, we're talking at least a 30 minute trek there and that's assuming no traffic, but usually the times I want to go are on the weekend when I have to figure out a way that bypasses the MCG before/after a footy game when traffic is complete bollocks. Too much effort.
So you can imagine my delight stumbling across a smaller boutique bottleshop in Northcote that not only supplies a great range of imported beer but changes their supplies on a regular basis to keep from going stale AND has some highly sort after beer glasses available for purchase. They also had this crazy $80 Absinthe fountain. I can't even begin to explain what it looked like but it was the perfect device for any Absinthe fanatic.
Oh and I forgot to mention the most important part of this whole thing... literally 2 minutes drive from my house. Parallel to it but a couple of blocks over. It was meant to be.
Harvest Wine & Liquor - you are too awesome. I bought 8 new beers to try yesterday, will be posting about them shortly.
Also the best of best is in Hawthorn slowbeer.com.au - check their slowbeer.blogspot.com - awesome.. So what beers did u try? In2 brewdog brewboys and 3ravens ipa and apas and darkales at moment!
ReplyDeleteSweet, will check it out, thanks for that! I haven't tried all of them yet but I'm particularly excited about the Blanche De Namur seeing as how everyone is singing its praises, also the Unibroue La Fin Du Monde, mainly because the brewery isn't exporting out of Canada anymore and I don't want to miss trying it. Except that it's apparently like Triple Karmeliet and I wasn't a fan of the ridiculous sweetness of that one. Got the 3ravens Ravenator too that I plan on getting stuck into as soon as I get home from work today. Oh and the White Rabbit White Ale... I like it, and I'm not a fan of the dark ale. It had that instant taste/bite of Hoegaarden but with a much drier finish, without the intense fruitiness.
ReplyDelete