With so much drama in the L-B-C, It’s kinda hard finding time to write B-O-B. That’s what Snoop would’ve said if he was taking his Gin and Juice to market anyway. This post is the latest in a blog series that details the steps we’ve been going through to take Mash Palace Brewing commercial, and the...
Finally got around to making some volume markers on our boil kettle on the weekend. One of the boys had shared this post they found about making permanent etchings on stainless steel. The process uses everyday items that you will probably have hanging around your home and as the post says the hardest part...
(I had my fingers crossed) Now you might recall when I made this commitment I said that I was going to make one allowance, which would be for a 100ml taster of our latest homebrew. As it turned out my lovely and supportive wife splashed out and donated $25 to adults living with cancer...
Eight days into Dry July and I’m surviving. Although, last night I had a dream that I was offered a beer and I took it and then I was rather upset that I had broken my Dry July promise. This is clearly having some effect on me. Thursday through Saturday were a little bit...
Last weekend we finally blew the dust off the brew kit and sparked up our 32 jet Mongolian gas burners to put down an American pale ale. And when I say “blew the dust off”, I mean dismantled the kit, marvelling at the build-up of mould, giving it a thorough brush clean and a...
In our endless task to brew better beer, we decided to go BIG with our ninth batch of home brew. Our original attempts at an IIPA fell woefully short of the style and it was time to remedy that. This beer, Hoppopotamus, was to be one of our entries for the National Home Brew...
In a calculated move to assist the craft beer movement amongst my mates, I hosted a beer tasting last weekend. Growing up with these boys and girls, they’ve always been a pretty hardy lot when it comes to alcohol retention and big beer consumers (though I refuse to divulge what beer in particular is...
After some deliberation all of us boys have come together on a name and a direction. Here I tell the story of five mates trying to get their sh*t together to make better beer. All our film work; shooting, editing and post is done by Carl Budden. If you’re looking for some quality production...
So Christchurch has had close to 6000 quakes since February 2011, but I wonder if they’ve ever experienced a disaster like we had on our last batch of home brew. We have been having trouble with our efficiency and we decided we needed further modifications to the brew kit to sort it out. We...
