Brewing event at the BH Food and Drink Festival

[Hedvig Murray]

Hey All, 

Just in case you were interested

http://www.brightonfoodfestival.com/meet-the-brewer.html

http://www.brightonfoodfestival.com/a-state-hopp-ing-craft-beer-adventure.html 

Anyone tempted? 

h

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The plant that I am most excited about at the moment is: 

   rare Sussex apple trees

 

[Beth Tilston]

Well, I'm busy for the second one, but I could make the first if anyone else is interested.

Beth 

[ed spencer]

Hello
I should be around on the 9th and I'd like to attend,
Ed

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[Tracy Hind]

Hi - I can't make the 9th but would happily go to the 11th if anyone else is?

Tracy x

[Will Harley]

I am a bit tied up for both of these in the end, would be good to have a BBC presence there though! 

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:45:16 +0100
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[ed spencer]

Ok maybe I’m a bit slow on the uptake, maybe everybody does this already but I had a bit of an epiphany today.

In the past I’ve always tried to siphon wine directly from the demijohn to the bottle which can be a bit messy and inaccurate. Today I syphoned it into a jug so I get 750ml and then poured that into the bottle via a funnel with a a sanitised sieve in it so I don’t get elderflowers in the bottle. It worked quite well.

Not sure I could be fussed to do this bottling 23 litres but for 4.5 it makes for a better result.

Just thought I’d share.
Ed

[Will Harley]

Good work Ed, I had a similar epiphany recently i.e. completely obvious thing that I had not thought of myself.  Can't remember what it is though, but I will share when it comes back to me.
 
Anyway...we brewed a new house-move celebration pale ale on Friday (whilst working from home) and bottled up a new stout in the early evening.  Will let the group know the results and probably post the recipes if they are not horrible.  Any home workers on the group should note that ale brewing is very consistent with home working in the kitchen, providing ideal opportunities for breaks from the screen at about 1 - 1.5 hour intervals.  You should of course be doing this anyway to comply with health and safety law.  Play safe kids.
 
Friday night I also had a the pleasure of sampling some of Bartleby Breweries wares.  This is Brighton's newest (possibly) and micro-est (probably) microbrewery.  It was very inspiring to see how much could be achieved by a small outfit (think about 3 to 4 times the size of a stove-top brewing operation).  They have a brewing room located in the Coach Werks Co-Working space.  There were three different brews on when I visited: a stout, a pale ale and a middle one (lack of detail as it was quite late in the evening already).  I can vouch for at least 2 of them being very drinkable, which is what I did. 
 
Will
 

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[Hedvig Murray]

Good to hear your epiphanies. 

I would like to get back into brewing, and a working-from-home brew sounds like a good plan.  

As you are brewing a house-move ale does that mean that the flat is sold and you have bought the other place and you are on to move? 

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The plant that I am most excited about at the moment is: 

   lemongrass

 

[Will Harley]

Very nearly there, just a few details to iron out.
 
Not sure of precise timescale though...hopefully we have not jinxed it with out optimistic Ale...
 
Will
 

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:48:13 +0100
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[Hedvig Murray]

Fingers crossed.