mmmm.... beeeeer......

As far as I know, this isn't available yet back in blighty, but someone should jump on the bandwagon. A great idea, take a micro-brewery and open it up to homebrewing hobbyists and amateur beer lovers, provide recipes reverse engineering 100 different popular beers, and charge the punters about half the price of buying the beer in the shops to brew up a 50litre keg of their own. Fantastic. Nat, Carl and I went down to Bru4U on saturday, picked the recipe for "Joags" (which is a copy of the James Boag's Tasmanian beer) and went to work. Great fun, and we found ourselves drinking cold beer at 10:30am in between tipping carefully measured amounts of hops into the frothing beer kettles.

And in just 3 weeks time, we'll return to sample and manually bottle our brew. The only downside to the whole thing is that with no artificial preservatives or additives, the beer must be kept in a dark and cool place, and drunk quickly to stop it spoiling. What a shame. On the flipside, there should be much milder headaches the day after - all good.