It’s been a long, long time since I brewed a beer – more than a year in fact. According to my homebrewing log the last time I put down a brew was […]
Homebrewing without killing the family dog
Can you actually make beer with Vegemite?
Okay, by now you’ve probably read about the claims that people living in dry communities in the Northern Territory are buying up to 20 jars at a time to make homebrew. In […]
Homebrew trilogy: Chocolate bars, wort kits and a Yeastie Boys rip-off
It’s been a busy few weeks at the Humphrey B Beer brewhouse. And by “brewhouse” I mean the laundry at home and the fermenter in the cupboard under the stairs. In this […]
Brewing a beer with Redskins
For the last two years I’ve been on the hunt for a recipe for the legendary Redskin Beer. That’s not a beer brewed by Washington’s NFL team but rather a beer that […]
Back to homebrewing
Here’s a sentence you won’t read all that often – my wife made me brew a batch of beer on Saturday. It’s a true story. Oh, okay, it wasn’t like she […]
The Thursday Quote
‘‘Homebrewing is a hobby and is supposed to be fun. Whenever you make a mistake, brew a batch that is less than perfect, or experience a mechanical malfunction that ruins a batch […]
The Thursday quote
‘‘Thomas Palmer finished his sentence in Australia, and went into the shipbuilding trade while he was serving it. He and his close friend John Boston … had little experience of business, but […]
Homebrewing hiatus
What you’re looking at is my bench capper, which I use to put the bottle tops on my homebrew. It was last used about two weeks ago to cap my latest batch […]
The same old thing is special
When it comes to making beer, brewers seem to get all the praise when they come out with a new beer. But really, when you think about it, that’s the easy part. […]
That damn pink bottle
I reckon a good proportion of the sales of Rogue’s Voodoo Doughnut beers can be put down to that pink bottle. That lurid colour really makes the beer stand out on the […]
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