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23 September 2007
Vee Bee
20:19 The one bad thing about Australia is the utter and complete obnoxiousness of the native wildlife. If it's a plant, it will poison you, and if it's an animal it will bite and then poison you, unless it manages to first throw itself under the wheels of your suburban assault vehicle. To cope with this, the first settlers developed a fizzy, piss-coloured drink that is almost but not entirely quite unlike beer. And the only sensible way to serve such an abomination, which is to real beer what an oven-ready broiler is to a Tyrannosaurus rex, is at about seven degrees below zero because at these temperatures your taste buds freeze, valiantly sacrificing themselves for the greater good.
Because it is somewhat unseemly to queue for 3 days outside Dan Murphy's for an outside chance of securing a single bottle of Old Speckled Hen, we have been brewing our own beer. Which is, in the words of any number of ex-pats we have invited round, "bloody good". We start with one of the standard starter kits (basically barley malt and hop extract) and tweak the recipes to our liking. A couple of days ago, we bottled a brew that we spiked with a couple of pounds of raw honey (there is a honey research group at work, and we have already made 5 gallons of mead using their leftovers), and decided that we needed to start naming our concoctions.
So, ladles and gentlespoons, please raise your glasses to
ABV ~ 6%, probably. Woohoo.
17 September 2007
Winds light to variable
21:22 As Eccles might have put it, we're all
03 August 2007
Mmmm
16:00 Mushy peas!
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