Well Done Nathan

Our local Chef and Restaurateur, Nathan Outlaw has just been awarded 2 Michelin stars. This is nothing more than he deserves. He is a great chef a top bloke and sells excellent beers in his restaurant!

Congratulations to Nathan and his team.

Here’s a picture of me standing next to him.

Thank you all very much for the suggestions on the blog, e-mails, phone calls and text messages. I’ll post a revised 12-brewery hit list when I get a minute.

"12"

To put an end to your clamour, lack of sleep and general stress I can now announce the big plan for Project 2011. The guesses below are as raconteur, Roy Walker would put it, “good but not right.”

This year instead of 52 brews in 52 weeks I am aiming to brew at 12 breweries in 12 months.

I have a few already confirmed and so far the breweries I am quietly confident of brewing with are:

Atlantic

Brew Warf

Castle Rock

Hepworth’s / Ridgeway

Otter

Loddon

Lovibonds

Rebellion

Others which I would like to work with I won’t be so bold as to list before I contact them. If you are a brewer or you know a brewer who you think would like a big ugly bloke shouting a lot in your/their brewery for the day please let me know. If you have a suggestion for someone to approach please also leave a comment. I will be constrained by geography although I am quietly confident of brewing with at least 1 non UK brewer.

Some of the brews will be collaborations and some will just involve me pitching in with the day to day stuff. What I am aiming to get is a feel for the brewery so I can write about the experience and the place here on my blog.

I suspect that I will not be able to brew every month. I may have to brew more at the start and end of the year so as to avoid being away from the brewery during the madness of the summer. One of the brews may involve a cage fight.

Project 2011

Quick note: I am sorry but the event at HAND has now sold out. If you are still interested please let HAND know and they will put your name down for a forthcoming one.


2011, another year another challenge. I have brainstormed, engaged in blue-sky thinking and pushed the envelope to conceive of this year’s project. Curiously it involves beer and brewing. 

What is this year’s challenge?

What do you think it could be?

Anyone care to guess?

Anyone care?

Talk to the HAND (see what I've done there?)

On 29^th January at around 3:30PM I will be personally introducing Monsieur Rock (the beer rather than the man) and a few speciality blog brews to anyone who will listen at HAND-Falmouth. I am also going to do a slightly informed tasting of Orval and its American tribute Matilda. HAND is (I have heard) a fantastic bar selling good beers from across the globe some of which some people would call craft beers. It is a ticket only event so if you are interested please contact HAND to book a place. I assure you that you will get to drink beer worth a great deal more than the price of a ticket. The list of beers for tasting at the event will be:

1. Monsieur Rock
2. Orval
3. Chalky’s Bite
4. Goose Island Matilda
5. 50 Hop IPA (Angerfist Remix)
6. 25 Grain Chechen Imperial Stout
7. DW

 I hope to see you there.

Patience is a Gift Only You Can Give

With the 52 brews complete in terms of fermentation, this year's major expansion to manage and the submission of my thesis at the end of the month, I am not going to get the opportunity to post very much in January. Please don’t think it’s because I don’t love you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you have come here after reading the label on the back of a bottle of Monsieur Rock, the information you require will be found here here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here

Whatever happens, don’t forget me.