The storm is 8 Mississippi's away

Lovely evening for a bit of a fire:)

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It's our home brew club meet up tonight! Hopefully a few people can make it, 7pm at 2 Knives Kitchen! #beer #beeroclock #newcastle #homebrew

After a pre lunch delivery, I managed to actually get my beer made - it's a tropical stout for an upcoming swap with another homebrew club:)

Lights out at S.Gosforth - signals providing mood lighting:)

It's our home brew club meet up tonight at the Town Mouse from 7pm, hopefully see a few people there! #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer #homebrew

Brewing up a SMaSH today! @northeasthbc.bsky.social

Our next meet up will be on Tuesday 14th April from 7pm at the Town Mouse, hope to see a few people there. #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer

Made a ginger beer today, extra pale ale malt, loads of ginger and a little bit of sugar. Hit all my numbers so hopefully it comes out alright. @northeasthbc.bsky.social

New year, new game - Charterstone, a legacy game to get stuck into!

It's our final home brew club of the year tonight, hopefully you can join us from 7pm at the Town Mouse. #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer

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Making curry powder today:)

Brewed the Belgian Strong Golden Ale recipe from the Greg Hughes book today, haven't used candi sugar for a while so was fun. Grains composted and yeast pitched:)

Well it's been a fantastic year of home brewing and there's been some great beers at our meet ups but it's the last meet up of the year! Hope to see a few people at the Town Mouse from 7pm on Tuesday 9th December. #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer

Played a couple of game tonight - a print and play game I printed yesterday (Sprawlopolis) and a legacy game (Legends of Yu) lots of fun!

Been a bit slow on the brewing recently, a buddy in work gave me this Düsseldorf alt kit so I've had a go on Thursday Also turned this cheap 33l AliExpress SS pan into a fermenter so we'll see how that goes.

Played some board games with the kids then I did a bit of Lego - been meaning to get this out for a while now:)

Been to the Grainger market yesterday and cooking up these treats later today:)

I forgot to mention in my last post that the next home brew club is on Tuesday 14th October, hopefully see a few people at the Town Mouse from 7pm #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer

That's a wrap on brewday - cleaning done, yeast pitched, grain composted:) I even almost hit my numbers!

Brewday tomorrow @northeasthbc.bsky.social - making my Xmas ale share.brewfather.app/PMYJdzo2xcEm44

Chat out of Hell is cracking on with series 5! Continuing the theme of doing themes, this episode we take a look at two rockin' songs about heroes. And somehow made it through the whole thing without once talking about Cadbury's Heroes. Well done us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Not the best hop harvest this year, got a bit more than pictured but only 200g in the end. Vacuum sealed and popped in the freezer. Will be enough to finish my spring golden ale next year. Variety: Goldings

Add a manta ray to that list! Pelican for scale

Current rally for wildlife seen while camping: Possum, rainbow lorikeet, kookaburra, pelican, cormorant, Aussie pied cormorant, Aussie bush duck, so many kangaroo, magpies, some kind of pied wagtail:)

Important business going on at Heathrow:)

New game time! Mycelia, got from @travellingmanuk.bsky.social today:)

Lovely pint of cask Arbor APA at Mean Eyed Cat

Got a pile of sloes off a buddy so got a couple of litres of sloe gin started for Xmas! The sloes were frozen, so the sugar hasn't fully dissolved yet, will probably take a day or two with occasional shaking I'd think.

Oh lawd, an extra-special piece for you today by our house homebrewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social Ever wanted to become a creature of the night? Make Tru Blood, the human blood replacement drank all over town in True Blood, everyone's fave sexy vampire show. share.google/oT4KxnQrPtvg...

It is one of the hottest days of the year and I am cooking.... A roast dinner!

Our next meet up will be on Friday 11th July at 2 Knives Kitchen at 7pm. #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer

Camping (posh camping this time) up in rural Northumberland. Lovely spot near Haltwhistle

Made a chicken tikka masala but last minute realised I had no rice, so quick roti made instead:)

It appears to be a Saturday after 1pm, would be rude not to pop in

Time to call it a night

Camping up in rural Northumberland, tomorrow's walk will take us to an ice cream dairy then a brewery!

Boil on the go!

Prep this morning for my brew day, making a beer for the @elusivebrewing.com malt miller competition

More like Doctor Whaaaaaat? I enjoyed:)

Break in the rain, time to cook the tea!

A few from the last few days camping up at Kielder. Couple of bracing walks, some absolutely stunning forest and a rural pub visit!

I've been asked - on a surprising number of occasions - two questions. "IS the Independent Salford Beer Festival going ahead in '25?" And - "When"? The answers? Yes. And - 6 - 8 November. There WILL be more news soon.....

Bottled 2 ales today: a 6% attempt at Jakehead and a 3.4% second running golden ale with last year's garden grown hops. Accidentally over primed the JH at 3.1 vols of CO2 though, so I'm probably in for a few surprises...

Finally got round to making my ginger beer, fermenting away nicely #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer

After a successful day yesterday of brewing and Vietnamese food, I'm chilling out today with Lego:) just finished this!

Second beer done and put away, sausage butty for lunch:)