{"id":2415,"date":"2010-07-03T22:10:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2010-07-03T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:12:30","slug":"saturday-afternoon-at-the-microbrewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Saturday afternoon at the microbrewery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent this afternoon at a most excellent microbrewery, <em>Brews Brothers<\/em> of Woollongabba, and prepared 150 litres of beer with a couple of mates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2416\" title=\"vat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vat.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vat-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vat-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t tried my hand at anything like this ever.\u00a0 My friends are little more adventurous than I and had made beer with homebrew kits before but I think even for them this was quite a pleasant new experience.\u00a0 The venue itself is big, brightly lit and the staff were warm and welcoming.\u00a0 Not to mention shockingly generous.\u00a0 For the time we spent brewing a couple of kegs of beer, they provided eighteen bottles of beer on the house.\u00a0 <em>So good<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I know very little about the process or ingredients involving in brewing this beloved beverage so it was great to spend an afternoon not only learning what goes into a lager or an ale but then also actively measuring it all out and then mixing it together.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, we brewed three different beers modelled on the taste of Sapporro, Hoegarden and a Dutch dark ale.\u00a0 We had mild pangs of regret towards the end of the afternoon when we drank a rather delicious alcoholic chilli-flavoured ginger beer which was incredible.\u00a0 Oh well, guess it means we&#8217;ll have to go back then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/weigh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2417\" title=\"weigh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/weigh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/weigh.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/weigh-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/weigh-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eighteen cartons worth of labour and one boozy afternoon later, now we&#8217;re playing the waiting game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Just four weeks to go&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent this afternoon at a most excellent microbrewery, Brews Brothers of Woollongabba, and prepared 150 litres of beer with a couple of mates. 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