Brew Day Photos
A few brew days ago I took some updated snaps of various points in the day. Some new shots of my taps as well as the brewing process.
Coffee roasting
I thought I’d post some new photos of a recent roasting session. Nothing much has changed in my set up, just some new photos. Enjoy!
The Story behind the Brewery: Daddy’s Beer Brewery (DBB)
I thought I would write up a little about ‘my brewery’. Now obviously this is my hobby and not a commercial brewery but quite often in the homebrewing world we name our breweries for fun, and, well, at the end of the day we are doing just what the commercial guys do – just on a smaller scale.… Read More »
Making yoghurt at home
Besides making my own beer, another food we make here at home from scratch is yoghurt. Now I know this is not such a new thing and many people make yoghurt at home, but I’m not talking about those Easy-Yo sachets you can buy at K-Mart /Big W – I’m talking about proper yoghurt. Traditional yoghurt can be… Read More »
Birty’s Bitter – English Bitter
I mentioned in a previous post that I was keen to put on an English Bitter. I’ve tasted a few English beers over the years both from traditional pump taps as well as imports and have become a big fan of the less carbonated brews. After some research and playing around I ended up putting the recipe together… Read More »
Explore Beer Radio – A one-time radio show all about beer!
My studies are complete and part of that was a radio assignment – naturally on beer! Through various resources I managed to get in contact and have talks with Paul Mercurio – cookbook author and beer enthusiast, Richard Watkins – head brewer at the Wig and Pen and Colin Marshall – owner of Brew your own at home.… Read More »
Radio Show Finished!
The final submission for my radio show is now complete! It will be available here to download and listen to shortly. As the final entry for my journal part of the assessment I thought I would write some notes reflecting my experiences to date. I decided at the start to try something new, something different (for me), something… Read More »
Managing interviews
Working on the radio show and trying something new has brought up an interesting dilemma.Managing interviews. Ordinarily I would cut the interview up and slot it in where it needed to go. As I am trying to splice all the different comments from various people across the whole of the show I decided to do up a time… Read More »