Partly because we miss Tom but mostly because we haven't recorded much since he left, here's the long lost Year in Review episode, where Tom, Liam, and Adrian discuss their favourite things from 2014. It's an episode so old that even the X-Files reference is dated. It's, like, so last year.
Beers
- Feral Hop Hog
- Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Pretzel, Raspberry & Chocolate Ale
- Doctor's Orders Prescription 12
Beer Categories
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
- Adrian: Kaiju! (honourable mention: Shenanigans)
- Tom: Modus Operandi
- Liam: Batch
SYDNEY BAR OF THE YEAR
- Liam: Bitter Phew (hm: Forest Lodge Hotel, Cammeray Craft, The Newington)
- Tom: Bitter Phew (hm: The Local Taphouse, Trinity Bar)
- Adrian: Bitter Phew (hm: Royal Albert Hotel)
BEST BEER EVENT
- Tom: The Great Swillhouse Collaboration Coup
- Liam: Hops: Drink Awesome. Drink Fresh (hm: Gypsy Brewer Jamboree and Fight Club)
- Adrian: Craft Beer Rising (hm: smashing Watermelon Warheads at Frankie's)
BEST BEER NEWS
- Tom: Doctor's Orders bottling beers
- Adrian: Thorogoods closing (hm: GABS coming to Sydney)
- Liam: Wayward opening a brewery in Inner Western Sydney
BREWERY OF THE YEAR
- Liam: BrewCult (hm: Modus Operandi)
- Tom: BrewCult (hm: Riverside)
- Adrian: Feral
BEER OF THE YEAR
- Tom: Modus Operandi Former Tenant (hm: Temple Scarlet Super, Bacchus/Doctor's Orders Exhumed
- Adrian: Feral Watermelon Warhead (hm: La Sirene Praline, Kaiju! Hopped Out Red, Shenanigans Winston, BrewCult Outta Sight)
- Liam: Riverside 777, De Ranke Saison de Dottignies (hm: Mountain Goat Delmont IPA)
Non-Beer Categories
BEST PODCAST
- Tom: No Such Thing As A Fish (hm: The Flop House, Doug Loves Movies)
- Liam: Fat Man On Batman
- Adrian: The Truth (hm: No Such Thing As A Fish, 99% Invisible, This American Life, Radiolab)
BEST MOVIE
- Adrian: Short Term 12, The Raid 2
- Tom: Boyhood (hm: Snowpiercer)
- Liam: Restrepo (hm: 30 for 30 Soccer Stories: Hillsborough)
GAME OF THE YEAR
- Tom: Dead of Winter, Desert Golfing (hm: Crossy Road)
- Adrian: Hexcells Infinite (hm: Sirtet)
- Liam: Grand Theft Auto V, Portal 2
BEST ALBUM
- Tom: Down to Earth by Flight Facilities (hm: 1989 by Taylor Swift)
- Liam: The Physical World by Death From Above 1979 (hm: 36 Seasons by Ghostface Killah)
- Adrian: Somewhere Else by Lydia Loveless [ed: I forgot to mention Warpaint's self-titled album, which was fucking amazing]
FAVOURITE FOOD IN SYDNEY
- Tom: LP's Quality Meats (hm: Dimitri's, Mr. Crackles)
- Adrian: chargrilled ox tongue at 4Fourteen (hm: brisket sandwich at Rocks Brewing, brisket sandwich at Vic's Meat Market, double burger at Burger Project, ramen at Gumshara and Menya and Ryo's, The Commons)
- Liam: Royale With Cheese at the Royal Albert Hotel (hm: ramen at Menya)