Just a quick blog post today. The first of the homebrew competitions that I submit beers to, takes place at the end of January and I’ve just put my beers in to crash chill. The best thing about these competitions is that they are a fantastic way to get great, unbiased feedback about your […]
Kate and I had another fun crafty afternoon this week. We made fancy tap handles for my beer serving board. We have the ability to have 4 different kegs of beer at home but were using little plastic “picnic” taps to serve the beer. It worked ok but didn’t look […]
It’s that time of year again folks, thanksgiving/winterfest is almost upon us so we’ve got the pumpkin beer fermenting away. We are having our winterfest get together on 13th December this year (as this is the only date we could all make) and as always there will be pumpkin beer […]
As many of our regular blog readers will know, I enjoy making labels and pump clips for my home-made beer almost as much as I enjoy making the beer itself. From this I’ve had a request for a blog post from some friends in the home brewing community to write […]
Well it’s that time of year again, pumpkin ale time. If you don’t remember from last year, we made pumpkin ale for thanksgiving at Mole End. It was such a success that we’re doing it again. We opened the naming of the beer up to a poll right here on […]
Winterfest has been and now spring has sprung… so… next comes Springfest :0) Springfest is our celebration of spring and friends and we’ll be hosting a wee shin dig at ours in March. A shindig at ours means a beer for the occasion so Kate got to work creating her […]
Cinderella’s Ruin Given the clear lead that this beer title had in the poll, we have closed the poll a few hours early to announce the winner we all knew was coming. Well done to Valerie for her fantastic beer name which won the vote by a huge amount from […]
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