What a surprise when I turned on the television on Saturday night and spotted two friends from work presenting a TV show about beer! I had no idea! I spoke to one of them about it today and he informed me that all the previous episodes could be found on YouTube. So, for those of […]
A short video shot entirely on my iPhone showing the process for brewing a batch of porter. This one is my honey chocolate porter which I haven’t yet tried as it is in it’s secondary fermentation stage. Hopefully it will taste as good as it smells! Recipe here: Ugly Duckling Porter
So I finally bottled my honey chocolate porter last night. I was hoping to do it last Friday, but the specific gravity was still moving so I decided to wait. After two consecutive days with the same reading, it was all systems go! I set myself up in the kitchen with my new long neck […]
On Monday night I attended my first ever meeting of the Yarra Valley Brewers Club. The formalities were soon over – a discussion about a beer trip to the Beechworth Brewery in October, the Taphouse in St Kilda and the Brew Wizard brand possibly going out of business – and then it was onto the […]
Inspired by a visit to my local home brew shop and the strange mutterings on a new podcast that I have started listening to, I decided to finally brew another batch of beer. I still had a can of Coopers Canadian Blonde that was given to me for my birthday in March, so that was […]