Brewday Update: Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

Here are a couple of videos that were taken during the recent Dark Garden ’09 brewday that we’d forgotten about. We haven’t got a free video editing tool to hand (any ideas of the best option, please leave a comment and let us know) so they’re a bit rough and ready and are just raw [...]

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Brewday: Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

It’s taken a week or more to get this brewday post up on the blog. The day job may not be as much fun as either brewing or drinking beer, but it certainly consumes a lot more time and energy. What can you do, eh? This brew revisited a very successful recipe from a year [...]

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Hop Growing 2009 #2

An update on the progress of our three hop plants. Despite me clumsily butchering the roots of the WGV and Fuggles in order to take some quite simple plantable samples for my dear old bruv, all is going very well indeed. The WGV and Fuggles will be used in as many batches of Dark Garden [...]

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Update: General procrastination and season’s greetings

According to Procrastinationadvice.com, a site that surely is the epitome of self fulfilment, “In order to know the reasons, as to why certain people delay or put off performing their certain tasks or assignments, it is essential to recognize the definition and level of procrastination. The fundamental understanding of the procrastination definition is that, it [...]

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Brewday: Boxshed Dark Garden

The plan for this brew was to produce a mild with all of the characteristics of a complex porter. My favourite commercial dark beer is probably Darkstar Over The Moon, and so I wanted to brew something with the same layered malt texture and hoppy profile. I realised this wouldn’t strictly result in a Mild, [...]

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