Browsing Archive: November, 2009

99 bottles of beer on the wall... OK four.

Posted by Antony Perring on Thursday, November 26, 2009,

Bottled up the beer this morning and the bottles are already doing their magic.

I'm only making a half a batch this time around so it's just the four bottles I've been able to fill.
It's still three and a half litres or so of ginger beer, so just enough to be going on with I think.

Very important to have everything clean and organised before you start mixing the batch of ginger beer up.

Melt the sugar in enough boiling water to be sure it's dissolved, add lemon juice and cold water to make up...
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Day 6 - Hit the bottle

Posted by Antony Perring on Monday, November 23, 2009,

With the inaugural ginger beer experiment bubbling away nicely in the jar on the kitchen bench, bottles are now the top priority.

I've heard a lot of stories in the past few days about bottle-related disasters, and I'm keen to avoid any of them.

Glass bottles bursting in the middle of the night and shards of the sharp stuff embedded in the furniture, and corks and other stoppers popping and denting ceilings are not on my agenda.

The last thing I want to do is scrape the remains of my fingers ...
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DAY 4 - The feeding frenzy continues

Posted by Antony Perring on Saturday, November 21, 2009,

Whatever is going on in the bottom of the jar looks pretty gross, but it's starting to smell like ginger beer.
I'm almost tempted to add some extra yeast, and sugar and get things really cranking, but I will hold back, this time around at least.

The bottle collecting is also going very well, and there have been plenty of folks with more experience than I, freely offering advice - especially about the bottling stage and the dangers there.

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Ginger goodness

Posted by Antony Perring on Wednesday, November 18, 2009,

I will happily go on record as a card-carrying, banner-waving ginger beer lover.

The bitey heat and the sweet lemony fizz of ginger beer are FAR superior to the insipid cousin ginger ale.

I'm looking forward to the cloudy concoction fermenting quietly in a laundry cupboard for a few weeks and mixing up a few summer cocktails with the result.

The experiment commenced today with the germination of my plant or "mother" and the bottling should commence next week - after i do a bit of diving into...

Newtown Festival

Posted by Antony Perring on Sunday, November 8, 2009,

Scattered showers made for a sticky day at the festival - on the upside sunburn was kept to a minimum and a fun time was had.

Just a few pics in the post today to give you an idea of the shenanigans. Unfortunately I was having too much fun to pay too much attention to the camera yesterday.

Camperdown Park - Newtown Festival

Posted by Antony Perring on Thursday, November 5, 2009,

Goths, students, hippies, poofs, dykes, mums, dads, kids, nannas and not a few dogs will be rocking out this Sunday in one of Sydney's biggest annual community events, and the highlight of the Spring festival season - the Newtown Festival.

The main fundraiser for the Newtown Community Centre - this year's festival promises something for everyone. Five stages for music and perfomance, food, arts and crafts, a dog show and heaps more will keep you entertained.

The Festival is a free event, but ...
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