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G'day all,

I've just received word that I'm being transferred by the powers-that-be at work. I shall be leaving sunny Canberra for the mid-north coast in a few weeks. The town I will be working in (Bulahdelah) is fairly small, so obviously won't have a HBS, but I am curious as to just how far I will have to travel. Colin at my local HBS is excellent and will be hard to replace.

Will I have to go all the way to Newcastle to buy supplies? Or perhaps north to Taree? If so, which shops are the ones to stay away from and which are the good ones?


Thankyou in advance,

Throsby

I live in Port Macquarie.

The nearest good HB shop is Marks Home Brew in Mayfield in Newcastle, and it's excellent.
There is an HB shop in Port, but it's mainly aimed at K&K brewers and spirits makers.

Don't know if there is an HB shop in Taree or Forster Tuncurry.

And last, but by no means least, there's Ross at CraftBrewers.

Cheers mate. I used to live in Waratah many years ago and plan to re-visit the area fairly often so a HBSin Mayfield will work out really well.

Great to know.

Thanks again,

Throsby.

Good grief!!!

What did you do wrong?

I think I might have been slightly misleading in my earlier post. However, I think Islington is geopgraphically quite close to Mayfield?

The details of the HB shop are in fact as follows:

Marks Home Brew
18 Maitland Rd
Islington NSW 2296

Phone 02 49 696 696
Fax 02 49 695 554
E-Mail mhb@ubrew.com.au

Close enough mate - Islington and Mayfield each hold a fair bit of disrepute.

Rest assured, I've done nothing wrong to be sent to the sunny and sub-tropical mid-north coast. It's a blessing. The local speakeasy (The Plough Inn) sells award-winning pies and has jetty-access. I figure if I can buy a houseboat and rig up some sort of permanent mooring to this jetty, everything else will take care of itself.

I've survived one winter of trying to Home Brew in Canberra and I'm ready to find somehere that can feed my habit all-year round.


Thanks again Warra. Out of curiousity, is there nowhere in Taree that could pass for a HBS??