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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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Reusing yeast
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Yeast Harvesting
In these times of austerity, and being a tight-arse as well as lazy, I am thinking about reusing the yeast from our current brew (the Windsor Knot IPA) in the next brew that I do. During fermentation the yeast forms a thick sediment or slurry (called the “cake”) at the
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Sunday Lunch at Webmonkey’s
Posted by Trenchfoot in Wine
Was invited round for Sunday lunch at Webmonkey’s today and spent a very pleasant afternoon with him and the Thespian who, despite being afflicted with severe vegetarianism, cooks a mean roast dinner. I thought I would use it as an opporutnity to get rid of a bottle of the dubious
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Beer Review: Oxford Gold – Brakspear
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer Reviews
Amber in colour with golden highlights, arriving with a fairly lively carbonation. A thin white head forms but settles down too quickly to a thin ring with a few lacey spots clinging to the glass. The aroma is bright and citrusy and I think I can detect Goldings hops dominating
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The degree I should have done
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Wine
A university in the North Carolina is aiming to sell its own beer and offer a degree in brewing after a class in the subject last year proved extremely successful. The Winston-Salem Journal reports: Appalachian State University trustees voted unanimously yesterday to pursue state and federal permits to establish a
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Brewday – Windsor Knot IPA
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Beer Recipes
Finally we got round to brewing our royal wedding beer today. Fendog came up from the big smoke and the rain held off sufficiently to brew in the back yard, but it still proved an extremely frustrating day. After some thought, we gave up on the idea of doing a
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Honey Ale for the Royal Wedding?
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer
I mentioned in a recent post our intention of following the tradition here in Britain of brewing a commerative beer whenever there is a royal wedding. Hopefully, we will get a brewday for this on Saturday and I thought I’d share a few more thoughts having contemplated what sort of
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Beer Review: Hobgoblin – Wychwood Brewery
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Beer Reviews
Wychwood do a good job with their marketing. Their website looks really great and they have worked hard at the dinstinctive branding of their beers. As with all their products, Hobgoblin comes in a eye-catching bottle with an interesting shape and nice artwork. But maybe they should be putting more
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Feb
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Chewing the fat with a not-so-fat Dandy
Posted by Trenchfoot in Banter, Beer
Spent a very pleasant evening last night with the Dandy whom I have not seen since his liposuction. I must say he cuts a fine figure in his new super-skinny jeans though I’m sure he must need some kind of tool to get them on and off. We sank a
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Royal Wedding Beer
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer
As we head towards spring here in the UK, royal wedding fever will be hotting up along with the weather. Magazines and websites are already packed with speculation about the dress, the food, the guess, the presents, the ceremony… But here are WWJB, the big question is – what will
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Standing on the shoulders of giants: Arnold of Soissons
Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Theology
Right, I think its about time for another in our series looking at some of our heroes of the faith – the great brewers in Church History. This week its St Arnold of Soisson (also known as Arnoldus), one of the many patron saints of brewers and more particularly, the
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