Home brewing for the people

Everyone is their own worst critic. Which is why when tasting my latest home brewing experience, my thoughts automatically wander to how I could get this ‘domestic airline house beer’ up to ‘jet fighter dogfight pilot experience’ with the addition of hops amongst other things whilst simultaneously playing a game of ‘did the carbonation drops work with this one or not?’

But then I had some family around on the weekend who looked at the latest effort out of the home brewing production facility (the shed) with completely different eyes and quite enjoyed the experience.
Even though I almost poisoned one of them years ago when I went a little overboard brewing up a beer…

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Let’s home brew an awesome beer! (Coopers Lager kit)

Coopers Lager Extract kit

If you missed the amazing news from yesterday, I’m now the proud owner of a new smoker and now a DIY Beer Coopers Lager kit! Yes indeed I’m truly strapped in for one ripper of a fathers day with future thoughts of smoked meats matched perfectly with copious amounts (23 litres when all said and done) of beer from the shed.

We’ve still got to bolt together the smoker but while I waited for my wife to finish work, I figured it was the perfect time to put this kit through it’s paces. After all I’ve already unboxed the whole kit and caboodle, now it’s time for all the ingredients of this Lovely Donna Lager (named after the wonderful woman who bought me the Coopers lager kit of course!) to come together in one foamy contained wonderful mess.

Let’s get mixing Brewmaster Flex!

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