Hi
I am the manager of the Browns Plains store and I attended the Coeliac Society's Gluten Free Expo on Sunday, to promote our range of Gluten Free Beer kits. It was a great day, and the crowd was excellent. We had a Honey Cascade Pale Ale on keg and the interest in the beer was over whelming.
If you love your beer and have an intolerance to wheat or grain of any description and can no longer drink normal beer, you will appreciate how wonderful it is to taste the flavour of a real beer again. We received numerous comments through out the day about how great it was to be able to drink the beer and know it was possible to make it yourself and get it at less than half the price of bought GF beer.
Being a Coeliac myself, I know and understand what they are talking about. It was fantastic listening to the comments our tasters made on being able to drink real beer again.
I personally am not a beer drinker and never have been, but even I quite liked the taste of this beer. I brewed the beer myself and the instructions were simple and straight forward and I have to say, very easy.
If you are a beer drinker and miss the taste of real beer, do yourself a favour and come and see me in the Browns Plains store where I have some Honey Cascade on tap, or any of our other 6 stores and check out the Gluten Free beer range. There is also an Oz Pale Ale kit available to purchase as well.
Happy Brewing from Browns Plains
Debbie
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Australian Home Brewing Conference
Hi. We have just got back from the Australian Home Brewing Conference held over the week end in Melbourne. What a weekend it was too. I must have tried over 40 different hand crafted beers, most from the growing number of boutique breweries around Australia. What a range of high quality beers we have.
The conference was held over two days and had over 200 attendees. Brilliantly organised, beers started flowing at morning tea each day, and continued at lunch, afternoon tea, after the conference finished for the day, and onwards. There was a spectacular beer and food matching dinner, a club night for home brew clubs to show off their own brews and the Awards dinner for best brewers in Australia, hosted by none other than Paul Mercurio, an avid home brewer! Arguably, the two best home brewers in the world, Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer, came out from the States to present to us as well.
If I had been really diligent, I would have recorded which beers were the best. Alas good intentions fell in a heap from the first night and I never really recovered. I was, however, in a suitable state to listen to what was said each day. There will be some things included in our next newsletter, but the predominant theme was working towards consistency in your brewing.
If you can not produce exactly the same quality beer each time you brew, then there is no point really in experimenting with different recipes, changing your equipment or anything else until you can. By ensuring you follow the same brewing procedures, from sanitisation to fermenting to kegging/bottling, every time you brew, you can then begin to change one variable each time to gradually improve you beer.
S0: Rule Number One of becoming a great brewer is getting your systems sorted - work out how you want to brew and stick to those methods every time. Keep a record of what you do and when something goes wrong, you will be able to see what you did differently that time.
More on this latter, but its a great idea worth thinking about as you whip up your next beer.
Have a great week. Cheers David
The conference was held over two days and had over 200 attendees. Brilliantly organised, beers started flowing at morning tea each day, and continued at lunch, afternoon tea, after the conference finished for the day, and onwards. There was a spectacular beer and food matching dinner, a club night for home brew clubs to show off their own brews and the Awards dinner for best brewers in Australia, hosted by none other than Paul Mercurio, an avid home brewer! Arguably, the two best home brewers in the world, Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer, came out from the States to present to us as well.
If I had been really diligent, I would have recorded which beers were the best. Alas good intentions fell in a heap from the first night and I never really recovered. I was, however, in a suitable state to listen to what was said each day. There will be some things included in our next newsletter, but the predominant theme was working towards consistency in your brewing.
If you can not produce exactly the same quality beer each time you brew, then there is no point really in experimenting with different recipes, changing your equipment or anything else until you can. By ensuring you follow the same brewing procedures, from sanitisation to fermenting to kegging/bottling, every time you brew, you can then begin to change one variable each time to gradually improve you beer.
S0: Rule Number One of becoming a great brewer is getting your systems sorted - work out how you want to brew and stick to those methods every time. Keep a record of what you do and when something goes wrong, you will be able to see what you did differently that time.
More on this latter, but its a great idea worth thinking about as you whip up your next beer.
Have a great week. Cheers David
Daniel's Trip - First letter back
To all Beer Lovers,
The past 6 weeks of my life have been an amazing, beer filled adventure, including a brief glance at the London Brew Pub Scene, a pilgrimage to Mecca (aka Germany & Oktoberfest), a lot of time in Belgium - the home of creativity, and an experience of life as a beer-brewing monk.
When I started out I had high hopes of documenting the whole thing - including write-ups on each beer I tried. I've written down the names of 40 beers and kept notes on most of them, but that would probably bore most of us and I'm probably not yet as descriptive as the role of beer reviewer requires.
As the trip unravels, the style will twist and turn and I hope my musings inspire you to great things - whether it be in the brewing room, bottle shop or a trip abroad.
Prost, Cheers, Sante!
Daniel
The past 6 weeks of my life have been an amazing, beer filled adventure, including a brief glance at the London Brew Pub Scene, a pilgrimage to Mecca (aka Germany & Oktoberfest), a lot of time in Belgium - the home of creativity, and an experience of life as a beer-brewing monk.
When I started out I had high hopes of documenting the whole thing - including write-ups on each beer I tried. I've written down the names of 40 beers and kept notes on most of them, but that would probably bore most of us and I'm probably not yet as descriptive as the role of beer reviewer requires.
As the trip unravels, the style will twist and turn and I hope my musings inspire you to great things - whether it be in the brewing room, bottle shop or a trip abroad.
Prost, Cheers, Sante!
Daniel
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