Mount Tambourine

On Wednesday, Dan and Sophie took us on a trip up Mount Tambourine, a short drive south of Brisbane. Our trip up the mountain took in Queensland's finest producers of booze and cheese.

First stop was the the Tamborine Mountain Distillery. We had a tasting session where we tried sips of various flavoured spirits. Hannah liked the chocolate mint liquer that she ended up buying a bottle.

The next stop we the Witches Falls winery, where we had another tasting session. I had never associated Queensland with wine but some of it was lovely. I tried a lovely Shiraz (or Syrah, as it would apparently be known in France) and bought a bottle.

By this point, I was feeling a little tipsy so I handed the car keys to Hannah for the journey to our next destination: the cheese factory and brewery.

First, we tried a few lovely cheeses and bought a few for our lunch later on. Then, we high tailed it over to the bar where we tried some beers that had been brewed on the premises. They had an impresive range of european style beers, including kölsch, wheat beer and trappist beer.

The brewery looked very impressive:

For some reason, they had a Lotus sports car parked in there:

We had lots of fun sampling the beer

Finally, we made our way to the top of the mountain for lunch.

The views from the top of the mountain were very good:

Sophie and Dan fell asleep on the way home, causing Hannah and me to panic somewhat, since we didn't know the way home. We just about managed to keep going the right way until they woke up again and we managed to make it home without incident.