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beer

Self-sufficient successes at Christmas

December 30, 2009
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Hosting guests over Christmas was the ideal opportunity for us to dish out a lot of our home-made food. The yoghurt was a great success, but without sufficient time to mature the beer was a mixed bag.

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Bottling beer the easy way

December 11, 2008

Beer bottlesFinally the beer was ready for bottling, but having learnt from our mistakes the last time around we tried a new strategy this time. It worked surprisingly well…

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The cold and the beer

December 4, 2008

This is the first time we’ve brewed beer in the winter, and we’ve both been surprised how different it is to doing it in the warmer summer months.

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Top 5 tips for successful beer and wine-making

November 29, 2008

Now that we’re brewing our second batch of beer, we’ve sealed our first 23 bottles of wine and cut our teeth – rather successfully – on making ginger beer, we’ve gathered together our top 10 tips for successful beer and wine making.

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Opening the first of the beer

May 20, 2008

So this weekend we finally opened the home-brew beer and it was… quite nice actually. In fact, very nice. Between four of us we got through the best part of four pints and the empty bottles now stand lined up, waiting for sterilisation so they can be used again.

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Bottling our homemade beer

April 7, 2008

2008-beer-bottling-thumbnail.jpgAfter two weeks in the fermenter, it was finally time to bottle the beer this weekend. So, we hoisted the fermenter onto the worktop, tested its gravity and got our sterilised bottles ready…

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Brewing beer at home

March 31, 2008

2008-beer-kit-thumbnail.jpgBeer is very easy to brew, and it’s one of the most cost-effective self-sufficiency moves you can make. You can quickly and easily set up a small brewery under your kitchen counter and, a week or two later, be snapping open your first few home-brewed pints. Here’s how.

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