This has been in the pipeline for a while, and now that it has finally come to fruition we can tell you guys all about our move and why we’re so excited! There’re a lot of new and exciting things happening, so this may be a little longer than our other articles but trust us, it’s worth it!
The weather in the Tumut area, and this part of NSW, has been pretty terrible recently. Here in Tumut we’ve had the banks of the river overflowing and the caravan parks have had to be evacuated due to the continuous torrents of rain.
By far the most exciting thing that has happened to us in a while, Bertha means big things for us here down at Tumut River Brewing Co. Bertha -seen here in all her glory- is our new bottling plant which we picked up during mid-August, for a fine price, from our friends at Cavalier Brewing.
You’ve probably read our articles about what crazy things people are currently putting into their beers, but around the world, for years and years, people and bartender have been adding beer to a mixture of ingredients to make cocktails; or beer-tails as we like to call them.
Technology has infiltrated every part of our lives so there seems to be no reason why it wouldn’t have joined us during the old fashioned pastime of going for a pint. Nowadays all the kids and their grandaddies have got themselves smart phones and, unlike dinner time, it is purely acceptable for you, or your mate, or your grandad to use a phone during beer time.
Being known for having a love of beer means that our family and friends around the world will send us all of the beer related stuff that they find. Nowadays, being known as full-on beer enthusiasts, we don’t really get sent all the wishy-wash ordinary stuff (as they’re now used to us offloading that information onto them!).
With summer disappearing into the sunset we’ve been brushing up on our foreign language basics, just in case we (our wives) manage to drag ourselves out of the brewery and away to a desolate beach, sparsely populated by palm trees, to relax for a week or two...
Hops are often referred to as “the spice of beer”, with good reasoning. These small but powerful flowers pack a huge punch and, like a chef experiments with spices, brew masters worldwide are beginning to branch out in the ways in which they are combining and using hops in their brews. So what do we already know?
As most of you know we have had our first bottling run and it was a fantastic success (to those of you still waiting on pre-orders they are here, we just have to get them to you). Moving forward we need to get our own six pack baskets made.
Grain is the essence of beer brewing –as grapes are to wine, grain is to beer- and of all the available grains barley is the one that lends itself best toward beer making; hence it being the most popular. This is how we began explaining grain in our last article [Hyperlink], and, surprise surprise, this still stands true!
Breaking Down Beer Beer, a four-letter word that has the same number of essential ingredients, these are: Grain Hops Yeast Water We say four essential ingredients because these are all you need to make great beer, but something as good as beer does not pass without experimentation and, nowadays, brewers worldwide are brewing beer with all sorts of different ingredients.
History: The Makings of Beer Beer is old, really old! It is one of the oldest -if not the oldest- beverages that humans have produced. It has long been important in society, having been used: in religious practices, as part of a healthy diet and as wages; it is mentioned in the oldest work of literature known to mankind.