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Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Beer Recipes, Recipes on 31. Mar, 2013 | No Comments
Easter Brewday – Atonement IPA
It’s Easter Day and what better way to celebrate the freedom that Christ’s death and resurrection has won for us than by brewing a batch of beer! As is my habit for Sunday brewdays, I mashed in just before setting off for church and with the hymns from a rousing
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Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Theology on 18. Feb, 2011 | No Comments
Beer in the Letters of Martin Luther
Today in 1546, one of our heroes of the faith, the great Reformer Martin Luther died. Luther was a man of startling contrarieties – a brilliant mind whose contribution to Christian theology is inestimable, he was courageous, determined, yet violent tempered, belligerant, and a complete potty-mouth (his scatology is legendary,
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Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Beer Tasting on 30. Sep, 2010 | No Comments
The Art of Beer Tasting: the Meilgaard flavour wheel
Morten Meilgaard is an unsung hero of the brewing world. A brilliant chemical engineer and real ale enthusiast, he basically invented the language used to describe beer. Although human beings have been enjoying the taste of beer for centuries, it was not until Meilgaard developed his now famous Beer Flavour
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Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Bottling and Kegging on 12. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
Standing on the shoulders of giants: the Trappists
When it comes to Christian brewers, or any brewing for that matter, nobody does it better than the Trappists. These dudes know how to party. There are seven Trappist breweries, all brewing some of the best beer in the world, but the most acclaimed of them all (despite also having
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Brewing a Simple Oatmeal Stout
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Beer Recipes, Recipes
For a while now, I’ve been wanting to have a go at making a simple Oatmeal Stout. The addition of a proportion oats to a stout can significantly add to the smoothness and the texture. It imparts proteins, lipids and gums which increase the viscosity and body and give the
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Fendog is back!
Posted by Trenchfoot in Banter
Yes its true! Fendog has come back to me. By some miracle he actually finished his Masters and got himself a job back in Oxford. Its a part-time job so he’ll have plenty of time for other pusuits, and I intend to make sure one of them is brewing. WWJB
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Jun
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Beer Labelizer – design your own beer labels
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer
A fellow brewer from the Oxford brewgroup put me onto Beer Labelizer which, despite the disappointingly American spelling, is a neat little site offering simple templates for you to design your own beer labels. Simply enter a few details such as the beer’s name, brewer, and tagline, then choose a
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Jun
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The Audacity of Hops
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer
Check this out! In what these days is a rare flash of inspiration, I’ve come up with an awesome name for my barleywine: “The Audacity of Hops”. I think that suits it well as it is hopped through the roof, and has vast pretentions of grandeur. I’ve knockud up a
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Jun
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Great Baltic Adventure on the Today Programme
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer
This morning’s “Today” programme on Radio 4 featured an story on the initiative of British brewers to recreate the traditional journey of Russian Imperial Stout by ship from England to St Petersburg. A favourite of Catherine the Great, Russian Imperial Stout was once exported in vast quanities as strong English
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May
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The Dandy’s Rancid Porter
Posted by Trenchfoot in Banter, Beer
No, I’m not talking to my friend’s new manservant. I’m referring to his latest effort (if that is not an overstatement) at brewing beer with the Geek. When I talk about homebrewing, friends often say they tried it once (usually as a student) and had a disastrous experience which has
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Apr
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Windsor Knot hits the Spot
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer
Ok, I live in the dark ages. I don’t have a TV. I don’t particularly miss it – its just full of sex and violence anyway, and I get enough of that in real life. Except the sex. One noticeable consequence lately though, is that the whole royal wedding hype
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Apr
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The Parsnip Wine Debacle
Posted by Trenchfoot in Wine
If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you know I’ve been trying to recreate my legendary Parsnip wine which put North Wales to sleep in 2006. You’ll also have read that it hasn’t been plain sailing… I dug up the last of the parsnips on the allotment. They were massive.
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Mar
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Barleywine Blow-off!
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Equipment
Woah! Returned home to find the walls and ceiling of the utility room completely splattered like an explosion in a sewage plant. And the fermenter was invisible inside a four foot high seeting pile of brown foam. It took ages to clean up and fit an new airlock. I hope
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Another Frustrating Brewday
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Bottling and Kegging
Another Brewday that took far longer than I was anticipating. The main reason: Fendog bailed on me. Some excuse about getting his nostrils plucked – a likely story. I courageously pressed on on alone. I racked the Windsor Knot into a keg (which, due to my equipment shortage is doubling as
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