After the average brunch on Sunday I started Monday by visiting a little parisian style cafe just along from the Windsor called Mimolette . The coffee was good and they had good quality French pastrys . Afterwards I visited the local Coles for a few supplies and then Ubered out to Rumble Coffee to catch…
Author: southstarbrew
Food : Beefy Pudding
Its amazing how fast things change. It is only my grandparents time when animal fats were almost all that was used in British and NZ cookery. I have recently been trying a lot of old English recipes, utilising a pudding basin I recently purchased for many of them. We have a lot of citrus in…
Cider : Orchard
One of my loves is cider, and the brandy you can distil from it. Like many craft brewers I was a homebrewer before taking up brewing as a profession and I still love fermenting food at home. My cider project has been a long time coming and now finally my little home orchard has began….
Food : Pork Pie
Its probably clear from the recipes on here that I love traditional British cookery. Pork Pie sits very high on my list of favourite foods. I was once bought Pie by Angela Boggiano by someone special and it is one of my most used cookery books. I’m not offering up any wisdom on making pork…
Travel : Melbourne Day 2
I had been down to do an event at the Boatrocker tap room but it was cancelled due to poor ticket sales (its a crowded week and the ticket price was at the higher end). So I had the day to myself. I wondered down to a nearby cafe that did Rumble Coffee which is…
Travel: Melbourne Day 1
After a hectic week with everything in the brewery breaking and Jane finishing up for her travels I finally got my house in order for Phil to dog sit , picked up a pull up banner from our stand at Brewday and made my flight to Melbourne. I ended up sat next to a middle…
Food : Lancashire Hotpot with sautéed Brussels sprouts
I grew up in a family where my father was atheist and my mother was a non practising Anglican, however the census didn’t have a space to tick our true religion for we were raised in the way of Coro. Watching Coronation Street was a binding family experience and the politics of how far behind…
Beer : Wild Celebration
Recently I have been in sombre mood over some of the developments in the beer market. Certainly the trends of hazys , pastry stouts and milkshake beers don’t fill me with joy. Also as someone who comes to all this from the food side of things the way these trends take beer further and further…
Food : Pork Chops Braised in Cider
A pretty classic combination of pork and cider with a little aniseedy fennel added to the mix. I used the cider from my friends at Peckham’s who in my opinion make the best cider in the country. I kind of think of this as an upside down Lancashire Hot Pot . Upside down in that…
Beer : The Death of Brown Ale
Sometime, about a decade ago, it looked like we could save brown ale. The American variant had potential ,a full new world hop aroma with a clean fermentation and a nutty , caramel , lightly chocolatey malt profile. It wasn’t as food friendly as English Brown Ale but it was a start. The number of…
Raise the Dawn 