Mmmmmmmmmmm Beer

Spent the week end with an old work colleague who chucked in the rat race last year and opened his own brewery.

It's in a small converted out-building next to the old farmhouse he bought with his partner Rachel.

They have worked bloody hard since the middle of last year to get the business going and work on the house, so I thought I would offer my services for a bit of painting/moral support and so I could pinch some of his flints for the stream in my garden.

This is the church across the field which he uses as his logo (see wrought iron sign above). The vicar is a good customer!

So I spent the weekend staining and waxing oak beams, painting, building cupboards, eating nice food and drinking excellent beer at the village pub. Yes it came from Marks Brewery.

No time this week end but I hope to give him a hand with a brew some time soon which will be great. Finding out how the flavours are developed and the chemistry/alchemy which turns hops, yeast, sugar and his own underground spring water, along with some eye of newt and wing of bat etc into beer. Mmmmmmmmmm.