cooking
Homebrew IPA Beer battered haddock and chips
My first time deep frying – I made some beer batter using my homebrew double IPA and coated some nice haddock loins in it and deep fried it!
Beer
Festival Golden Stag Homebrew
Today is brew day! This time I’m going for a Festival kit – Golden Stag, though I do have a change of yeast and extra hops – I opted for the hazy datlyz NEIPA yeast, and a whack of citra hops – let’s see what this turns out like
Whisky
Suntory Whisky Toki
Suntory Toki Bottling Note A blended whisky from Suntory’s three distilleries: Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chita. Toki has a different composition to another Suntory blend, Hibiki, as its main components are Hakashu single malt and Chita grain whisky. It should work really well in a highball. Fun fact: ‘Toki’ means ‘time’ in Japanese. Tasting Note Read more…
Beer
Homebrew cider batch 3
I think I’ve cracked it this time – it’s very dry (og was 1070 and fg was 990, so very strong – 10.5%abv and very dry)
Beer
Bulldog Evil Dog homebrew beer
I’ve started making a load of homebrew during the lockdown – my first was an all grain American IPA (just 1 gallon) but this time I decided to try an extract kit I went for the bulldog American IPA – evil dog! It was very easy to mix – it Read more…
Beer
Homebrew Tepache
I saw a few videos on YouTube for Tepache – a sparkling low alcohol pineapple drink, so decided to make some
Whisky
Highland Park Viking Legend
I really like the Highland Park 12, so when this came on offer I decided to try it. Its really good!
Whisky
Chivas Whisky Blend Kit
For Christmas I got a ‘blend your own whisky’ kit. It contained 7 bottles (5cl) with different whisky inside in order to create your own blend. After tasting each bottle (and comparing to a few other bottles) and following along with the chivas website I had a blend recipe. The Read more…
Beer
Homebrew Apple Cider from Juice
I saw a few posts on reddit and read a couple of blog posts about making homebrew cider from shop bought juice. I decided to try it out – here is how I did it get apple juice put it in a container add sugar, add yeast leave it bottle Read more…
Beer
Beer52 Melbourne Craft beers Jan 2021
lots of beers to try here! they will keep my weekends fully booked for the next few weeks :)
Whisky
Glenfarclas 10 year old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Glenfarclas 10 year old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
cooking
Cheese Boards!
There isn’t much better than a good cheese board. Especially when you have home made pear chutney or home made pear jam
cooking
Beef Picanha Brisket
A salt and pepper Beef Picanha cut from the local supermarket. I’ve been watching a lot of gugafoods videos on YouTube, so thought I’d try it out – the cut came seasoned on the fat side, but I seasoned the whole thing with: sea salt, fresh ground black pepper and Read more…
Beer
Pear Cider Bottling
I’ve been waiting to bottle my pear cider since I started making it – that time has finally arrived The bottling process was easy – I bought a reusable kit online which came with a syphoning hose and tap, and I got nice bottles from IKEA – before bottling, I Read more…
cooking
Pear Cider
I’ve been looking forward to this post for a year since we moved to our house. We have a pear tree in the back garden, and I was determined to use the fruit for something. In the very early spring I trimmed the tree after a little research to promote Read more…
cooking
Pear Chutney
I took a few of the pears from our harvest and made some pear chutney Once I had all the ingredients, it was fairly easy Just simmer for an hour and a half till it thickens Then serve :)
cooking
Home Made Pear Jam
After a bumper harvest from our pear tree, we decided to make some Home Made Pear Jam from a few of the pears. First time making jam, first time using our own Pears! I found a home made pear jam recipie online – 4 cups mashed pears 7. 5 cups Read more…
