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Brew Day!… “Cuvée Covid”

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

An experiment in ageing and “cutting” beer.

Brew Day!… “When Galaxies Colloid!”

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Brewing my first genuine hazy IPA.

Wort Cooling, Demonic Interventions and the Universal Telos

February 11, 2020February 14, 2020 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

The thermometer begins to plummet, like a clock ticking down the moments to the end of things. Time’s arrow is loose.

Brew Day!… “Icon”

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

On Imperial Russian Stouts, art, truth and mystery.

Brew Day!… “Mosaic”

October 21, 2019November 5, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 5 Comments

Sometimes it is good to get back to basics.

Brew Day!… “Black Forest Stout”

August 5, 2019August 16, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

After a Cherry Wheat Beer fails to carbonate, I set it off in two new, and radically different directions.

On Clones, Colour and Cassonade

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

One of my Pursuit of Abbeyness XII brew-day posts received a spike of traffic from the Homebrew Talk forum. I went and eavesdropped on the discussion.

Brew Day!… “My Cherry Amour”

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

My first attempt at a fruit beer had me grappling with a mathematical formula and a lot of questions.

“Memento Mori”: Another Lesson in Serendipity

October 2, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 4 Comments

If you stumble blindly and incompetently into your brewing masterpiece, will you ever be able to revisit that triumph?

Brew Day!… “Espress Yourself”

July 23, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

A coffee-bean stout saw me put two new bits of kit from Speidel to work: the Kellermeister conical fermenter and the Braumeister stainless steel wort chiller.

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