After Melbourne I was to head to Brisbane to spend some time in the trade with Adam from A&K who distribute our beer in Queensland. I decided to take the train. I enjoy train travel , I like seeing something of the countryside , the chance to perhaps meet and talk with fellow passengers, the…
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Travel : Melbourne Day 5
Day 5 started with an early rise and a uber up to Smith St to breakfast with John at a smart cafe. Then a day of trade visits with liquor buyers and bar managers. We drove through the leafy brick lined streets of North Melbourne and explored a number of very good specialist liquor stores….
Travel : Melbourne Day 4
After early morning coffee and pastry from Mimolette and a walk to look at the iconic music pub the Windsor Castle which was a block or two from the Windsor Ale House I headed down to met Shane at The Bach , a kiwi themed cafe in St Kilda / Balaclava for brunch. I went…
Travel: Melbourne Day 3
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…
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…
Raise the Dawn 