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Real World Tastings

I often remark on here about how when we taste wine around at our regular “Wet Wednesday” sessions that its quite different from how we judge a wine, or beers for that fact, at competitions.  At a Wine Show you are taking a sip of the wine, aerating it a bit, and spitting, you’re looking at colour, flavour profiles, tannin and acid structure, mouthfeel and finish to name just a few points. Jotting...

U-Brew-it

Most blokes I know have a story about drinking homebrewed beer, whether it is a story about how bad it was, how good it was or more commonly about how crook it made them. Although recently I heard the best story ever about homebrew and how a shed full of exploding homebrew stubbies sliced through an acquaintance’s leg, he passed out from blood loss and was saved by his flatmates. It’s amazing how ...

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