As our blog readers are well aware, life at Ar Bruadair is such a hardship. Dave G tells us all the time how hard our lives are and how he’s so glad he isn’t like us 🙂 So we decided that in honour of World Gin Day… we’d tell you […]
Drinks
Winter spiced tea recipe
Comments are DisabledSpiced tea was a recent discover for me, and to be honest, at first I wasn’t sure. Now however I am a full on convert. It’s another of those little comforters for the dark cold months we are about to embrace. So where did this come form? Well for me, […]
Naughty elf on the cocktail shelf – festive greetings from Kate & Eli
Comments are Disabledhttps://youtu.be/Oe7GHbnsBqE Espresso martini for one
A wee tipple to add a glow to your christmas festivities – EGGNOG
Comments are DisabledNow eggnog isn’t something traditional to us, although we did grow up with something similar called a “snowball” using advocat, which is made from brandy, eggs and sugar, so pretty much eggnog. We’ve spent a bit of time researching eggnog and recipes because we were worried about getting things wrong […]
Homebrewing competitions: what is it like to enter a beer
Comments are DisabledWell I promised an update on my entries to the home brewing competition but I thought I’d take the opportunity to do a little more than an update. I thought this was a good chance to talk about what it’s like to enter a home brewing competition and what to […]
Our bride ale – our wedding favours and the Black IPA recipe
Comments are DisabledThe big day has come and only just gone which meant we got to enjoy giving our wedding guests the bride ale we created in their honour. You can read about its creation in a previous blog post: Brewing up a bride ale We had decided a while back that we […]
Brewing up a bride ale
Comments are DisabledFirstly I should probably do the announcement, Kate and I are getting married. Letting you in on that little secret might explain the rest of this post :0) There are two camps to this little piece of brewing history but as I’m neither a historian nor have I made any […]
