A neat, honest, somewhat fruity lager with a nice label. Pretty cheap too. Grouse!
Seems they need a new website though.. or a website at all.
Apr 22 2012
paradox jura
An imperial stout from those wonderful nutters at Brew Dog, this one was aged in used whisky barrels from Jura.
Just like I want to be one day! This bad boy is as rich and smooth as it is dark, a superb 15% imperial stout with a little bit of a whisky afterglow. A very nice dessert to mull over. It’ll draw you in and invite you to bask in its afterglow, and demands to be mulled over while arguing very important things, like who’d win in a fight: Batman or Ironman.
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Apr 21 2012
feral hop hog
This beer regularly appears in Aussie top ten beer lists, often up the top. A superb IPA with a very well rounded flavour, if you see it, grab it. You won’t be disappointed. Better yet, it’s from Perth!
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Apr 20 2012
local boys brewing
Balmain Brewing Pilsner. A crisp, dry, classic pilsner, very much in the bohemian and czech style. I could spend all night on this.
Balmain Brewing Company are obviously very much local to me, so it was about time I put them up here. I’ve also tried their pale ale, which is terrific. Suggest you pick up a quad pack of each and give em a go. Let me know, and I’ll come ’round to assist with the appreciation of them!
Picture reference, this is the first uplourde using my new phone and the wordpress software on it. For reference, here’s the exact same photo uplourded to skydrive. Seems less grainy..
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Apr 17 2012
windows: the phone: 7: the redialling: 2: it’s straight up dawg time
So, I should follow up that last WinPhoPo..st. I’m still liking my phone, I believe it contains much goodness and also much potential. Last time I ended with some gripes, one of which I should retract – you can cancel an autocorrect before it happens, you just have to tap what you just typed. The trick is noticing that there’s going to be an autocorrect action about to happen. Not unpossible, but pretty simple to miss. Since that last post there’s a couple of observations made:
- Accidental clicking when scrolling seems to be pretty common for me.. not sure if I’m doing it wrong, but I find that I look for empty space to scroll through my ‘what’s new’ feed. The feed itself however is rather grouse, though it’d be nice if there was a way to ‘share’ facebook junk on there. Given that that doesn’t seem possible in any mobile facebook thing though, I’m thinking that might be an API issue more than anything else. Also in my notifications feed it’d be nice to see the tweet that someone’s replied to. I keep forgetting.
- Custom notification sounds. I like that I can do custom ringtones, but I like to pair them with custom sms get tones as well. It’s a curious omission for a Nokia, given they’ve had that option forever, but obv. that one’s on Microsoft to add. Hopefully for WinPho8 anyway.
- Ringtones that loop without a gap would be a nice option to have, if only because that makes ‘tones formatted for iOS work properly. That one’s a minor one really.. it’s easy enough to just loop it yourself in Audacity for 30 seconds… probably.
- The last firmware update (12070) has basically doubled the battery life. Now I charge it every second night rather than every night. It also seems more consistant in its usage – No more sudden drops in life remaining. Very handy. It’s also apparently changed the white balance in the photos, which was a little off. I’ve not played mugh
- I have somehow managed to leave a giant scratch across my screen. Boo. :(
All in all I think it’s great. It does the core smartphone things very well: social networking, taking photos and sharing them, emails, basic internettery… it’s even a competent phone! Where it falls down is app support. There are some great ones, as highlighted last time, but there’s some pretty big gaps – large name apps like Instagram and such aren’t on there, even Skype (owned by MS now!) is missing. If you’re not a big user of specific apps then there’s probably something that’ll fit your needs, but hopefully there’ll be more support from devs in future.
Also games. There should be ways and reasons for devs to link xbox gaming to it easily.
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