One of the things that appealed to me about homebrewing – and one of the things I tell others thinking about starting – is how cheap the beer is. That’s ‘‘cheap’’ as […]
Homebrew economics
Homebrew can be so fickle
Sometimes homebrew can be a most unco-operative creature. The beer I have in the fermenter under the stairs hasn’t been doing what it’s supposed to at all. See, it’s a double IPA […]
Homebrew freakout
Whenever brewday nears, I started freaking out a little bit. Well, to be honest, the freaking out starts before then – it starts when I begin to work out what beer I’m […]
The Thursday quote
“The marketing geniuses at the world’s industrial breweries haven’t a clue as to what kind of beer you like. Even if they did, the bets they could do would be to dump […]
Homebrewing help
Fellow beer blogger James over at Beer Bar Band has just last month become a homebrewer after a few years of just drinking the stuff. So that prompted me, a homebrewer celebrating […]
The Session #71 – Brewers and Drinkers
The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community where, on the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined topic. Each month a different blog […]
Homebrewing update
In which I offer a recap of my two most recent homebreweing efforts and ask for some assistance with my next recipe. A while ago I experimented with a watermelon wheat beer, […]
Discover the taste of Sarcasm
Being rostered on a week of night shift means that I get the chance to brew some beer. Finding the space to brew any other time is tricky. With a wife and […]
Messing with a pair of melons
So, with summer here, I had this idea that I wanted to brew a watermelon wheat beer. I like watermelon, find it quite refreshing and, though I’ve never had it in a […]
A beer just for the ladies?
Last weekend I brewed a beer with my wife in mind. She tends to like most of the beers I brew anyway – even to the extent of saying she prefers them […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 