• Issue #5

    I wrote in Issue #4 that I’d like to be posting more but also that I had some reservations about simply sharing tasting notes. Here are three of my beer highlights from January to March and what made them particularly special.  January – Mills – Saison Cider Cask 2023 @ Home I can’t recall when…

  • Porter of a Lady on Fire – Smoked Porter 2026

    Porter of a Lady on Fire: For years I have wanted to name a beer after Céline Sciamma’s 2019 masterpiece Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Released in the UK just before the pandemic where I would begin to dip my toes into homebrewing, this film has made a lasting impression on me with a…

  • Mild Tales – Amber Mild 2026

    Mild Tales: When I started homebrewing in 2020, I named each beer I made with a play on words of a film title, just for fun and to potentially build recipes to revisit. I never really stopped doing this, but it is something I’m going to include in my write ups.  I’ve called this recipe…

  • Beer in Sardinia #1

    Earlier this year, I held a presentation on Beer in Sardinia as part of our June online meeting at LAB. In preparation for this, I put together a master doc which was subsequently distilled down for time. As there isn’t much information on this topic in English, I’ve decided to repurpose this material as a…