Okay, so this happened some time last night. I only put down this straightforward hefeweizen yesterday around lunchtime and, when I walked into the laundry I smelled a very beery aroma – […]
The Big Blow-off
Back to brewing
About a week ago I put down my first homebrew in more than two months. There were a couple of reasons for that gap – which is the longest brew-less spell in my […]
Devil Dodger and drinking the label
Taste can be a funny thing. When Sail & Anchor’s Devil Dodger IPA first came out I raced to Uncle Dan’s to buy some. Partially because it was a new beer and […]
Time’s Up!
Fear not dear reader, the above picture is not of a headless little person whom I keep under my stairs. It’s just a plain old plastic fermenter dressed up in a flannelette […]
Snake beer screw-up
The image you see here is what about 800g of lolly snakes look like after they’ve been sitting in a fermenter full of beer for about two weeks. Pretty gross, huh? The […]
Black Nelson revisited
Regular readers will know that I’m not a fan of ageing beers, Well, not consciously, that is. If I end up ageing a beer it’s usually due to the simple fact that […]
Inspired by a classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-LDW7tWwAI Ahhh, Escape From New York. I loved this film as a kid – and looking at this preview, I think I need to watch it again. It may have been wrong […]
A different sort of low-carb beer
Homebrew mistakes aren’t all that welcome at my place. I devote a fair bit of time to coming up with a beer to brew, working out a recipe and then the several […]
Books and beer
This photo is of the beer section of my “to read” book shelves. As it contains 11 books (not including the book Bad Science, which has snuck in there due to lack […]
A beer for me
When it comes to homebrew I seem to have more beers I want to make than the time to make them. Take the beer I just bottled a day or so ago. […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 