We’ve been experimenting with making bread using beer. The results aree delicious, and with only three ingredients in the whole recipe it’s a quick and easy treat to bake.
Our home-made cheese is maturing. Read more...
We added three new hens to our flock. Read more...
We're baking sourdough bread. Read more...
We're knitting a woolly blanket.
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Finally 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…
After 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…
Beer 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.