Searching for chanterelles and pied de mouton in the gorgeous Foret des Andaines
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Saturday, 29 October 2011
France: more Le Brewery fun
More fun at Le Brewery
Our lovely American Bretzle arrived at Le Brewery sporting a shaved head and moustache and looking somewhat scary, after a little beer and gentlish persuasion we managed to convince him to allow me to shave it off...
Revealing a damn handsome face and fine set of gnashers.
More bottling of fine fresh ale
Peter relaxes after a hard days work
Its been a long day brewing...
Peter teaches us how to make his perfect Yorkshire puddings
Bretzle experiments with bread recipes
A night of apple pie and poker - homely gambling
Dan and Smudge
An outdoor bread oven at a food festival
Pete, Steve and Juliette man the stand
Pete and his yoghurt cake
One of our meals at Le Brewery, good times!
Mimi and Rocky
About to hit the road again as the adventure continues, au revoir Le Brewery its been a blast
Labels:
france,
Le Brewery,
Normandy
Location:
Joué-du-Bois, France
Friday, 28 October 2011
France: lots of lovely apples
Normandy in October smells of apples and fresh air, misty mornings and crisp afternoons. We visited a number of cider and calvados producers in the local area.
Apples from the orchard ready to be chopped
The process of cider and calvados making is explained to us
The fermentation tanks holding the pressed apple juice
Some ancient oak barrels which are used to store the Calvados during the ageing process
A food festival in Carrouges displays hundreds of varieties of local apples
....and pears
Piles and piles of lovely apples
One of the numerous apple orchards near Le Brewery
Location:
Camembert, France
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Mondial de la biere
Mondial de la Biere festival 2001 in Strasbourg - the first time Le Brewery had exhibited and 4 days of beer tasting, networking and meeting fantastic people.
Bretzle, Rigas, Steve and Dan get ready for the public
The Le Brewery beers were a bit of an anomaly at the festival. English style ales, brewed in France by an Englishman and served on a traditional hand pump by Scottish, Greek and Americans!?
After working at Le Brewery in Normandy I have developed a real love of beer, not your average boring pint but lovely flavoursome exiting beers that have been made with passion. In order to appreciate great beer you need to get your head around what makes it taste like it does - hopps/malt/types of water.....there is a lot to learn! Alex Barlow has developed a website called All Beer which helps you to understand the type of flavours that you might like and links to other beers with similar characteristics.
The range of Le Brewery beers
We found out on Sunday that we had one a gold medal for the Stout - Odo. This was really a fantastic achievement as with around 400 beers only 10 received medals.
The winning brewers.
My favourite brewery of the competition Dieu du Ciel! came away with 2 gold medals for their unusual and tasty concoctions. It was almost like they were chefs, creating beers as you would create really exciting recipes - unusual flavours, great rounded mouth feel, moreish mmm and excellent party hosts!
Steve with his gold medal and the winning Odo
An exhausting but brilliant festival, finished off with a German/Turkish kebab outing
Three in stripes, we met a lot of wonderful French Canadians including the fantastic Serge Noel
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