The Home Brew Site

If only you could brew at this speed. This  is cool it is a time lapse video of the fermentation stage.

Wow it’s been a bit busy of late for me, what with moving house and our first baby on the way.

The new house has given me the oppurtunity to acquire a new boiler, well not some much of a boiler rather a huge pan. It does work a treat though, I made a batch of pale ale for christmas, which I must say was pretty good, I’ll post the recipe shortly as it is probably the best I’ve come up with yet.

Before Christmas I was chatting with the guy in the homebrew shop, he tells me the price of a pint here in the uk is set to hit 3 quid a pint. Even the price of the better ale kits has risen by 2 pounds a kits. All as a result of the crappy british summer last year. Grain harvest has been poor, the weather has also effected the hops harvest. Muntons have responded by putting up the price of their beer kits.

The moral of the tale of course is to brew your own from scratch, whether it be from malt extract or from grain. It tastes better than the processed beer you get in the a lot of pubs.

Now should you ever get stuck unable to get into that beer bottle then give this a whirl.

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Some words of wisdom on the matter of beer and work.

• • It reduces complaints about poor pay.
  • It leads to more honest communication.
  • Employees work later since they no longer need to relax at the pub.
  • Burping during a meeting is no longer embarassing.
  • It’s an incentive to go into work.
  • It cuts down on time off , because you can work with a hangover.
  • It increases your chance of seeing you boss naked.
  • The cafeteria food suddenly tastes better.
  • It’s easier to talk the boss into giving you a better payrise.
  • It encourages car-pooling.
  • It reduces stress.

All very sensible I thought, what a great thing to see a cornelius keg next to the water cooler. MD’s please take note.

Not exactly Home brew related but a good idea non the less. The is a guy down in New Zealand that has spent days of research and finally come up with a method to cool 4 cans of Guiness to 2C in 5 mins. The error in his ways is he should have been cooling a cornelius keg full of your latest brew. However his idea has merit, I think with a few modification he has discovered a method, whereby you could cool your 20l of beer to a lip numbing temperature in a respectable 20mins.

All that is required is a Jet Engine!!!!!

Have a look. Jet powered beer cooler