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All beer related posts, from home brewing and home brew recipes to beer tasting and food matching.

08 APR

Weekend in Bruges

Nothing to do with the movie starring Colin Farrell. No, instead it was a very messy weekend in Belgium for my birthday in 2006 (original trip report). I travelled with my (now) wife and two very good friends. Before leaving, the boys set themselves a challenge of drinking as many Belgian beers as possible. This […]

Posted in: Beer Stuff, Family & FriendsTagged: 't Brugs Beertje, beer, Belgium, Bruges, Brugges, exotic beer2 Commentsadmin 8 April 2011
06 APR

Birthday beers

As most of my friends know, I am a bit of a beer drinker. So when the BIG FOUR-OH came along, so did a whole heap of beer and beer stuff! There was bar stuff (for my garage bar), there was brewing stuff (for my ‘brewery‘) and then there was beer. Forty-eight bottles of it […]

Posted in: Beer Stuff, Family & Friends, Photos & VideoTagged: beer, craft beer, exotic beer, Photos & VideoLeave a commentadmin 6 April 2011
01 APR

Reusing yeast

When I had finished bottling my pale ale on Monday night, I had a couple of inches of yeast slurry in the bottom of my fermenter. I’d heard previously that you can re-use this sludge to make another brew so I thought that I would look into it in a little more detail. Well, as […]

Posted in: Beer StuffTagged: beer, Home Brew, homebrew, yeast, yeast slurry, yeast washing2 Commentsadmin 1 April 2011
24 JAN

Honey Chocolate Porter… taste test

It’s been 5 months since I brewed my porter, so I dug a bottle out of my ‘cellar’ to try over the weekend. Firstly, when I popped the top off it began to froth quite a bit. At first I was worried that it had gone off (usually a cause of ‘gushing’) but once I […]

Posted in: Beer StuffTagged: beer, chocolate, Home Brew, homebrew, honey, porter, taste testCommentadmin 24 January 2011
13 JAN

Strawberry Beer brewing

This is what I got up to last Sunday afternoon – I brewed a strawberry wheat beer! The video is about 2 minutes long. The recipe is posted here.

Posted in: Beer Stuff, Photos & VideoTagged: beer, fruit, Home Brew, homebrew, strawberryLeave a commentadmin 13 January 2011

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Sunsets and sunrises in the bush to cleanse the so Sunsets and sunrises in the bush to cleanse the soul #sunset #sunrise
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