11/13/2023 0 Comments Beeralchemy 1.8![]() One minute it’s thin watery sunshine and then next it’s stinging cold rain. It’s that season where the weather is neither one thing nor the other. Unlike the malt bag, now that I’ve replaced the malt bag handles with paper handles, when this one eventually breaks, it is completely recyclable. From a flour sack you get a sturdy (and very handsome) paper bag that can comfortably take 8 bottles of beer. But other uses are acceptable.Īnd you can do the same thing with the paper bags that the Woodlea flour is delivered in. The idea is that you buy a box of beer and carry it off in its own Brew Shed bag, which you should, of course, reuse, preferably by bringing it back to fill with another box. ![]() Over Christmas I worked out that if you take out the dusty plastic liner you get a clean bag and if you cut them in half you can recycle each bag into two bags that are the perfect size for a box of beer. Folded up and stored for some undiscovered purpose. They’re same sort of woven plastic used for IKEA blue bags so that’s a good, sturdy bag that could be used for something else rather than getting dumped in landfill.Īnd they have been used – for storing wood and kindling for the fire, filled full of rubbish, or you can grow potatoes in them – but mostly they have just been accumulating. The boxes for the beer are reused as often as possible and then recycled. The spent grains are fed to the chickens or composted along with the used hops. Apart from these bags, brewing is fairly benign. I’m not fanatically environmental but you have to think about what happens to stuff when you’re done with it. Each batch of beer empties at least one bag and if you brew a couple of times a week, every week of the year, that’s a lot of bags. ![]() Big breweries get their malt in truckloads, stored in hoppers, or at least get it in one tonne bags. Malt bags, malt bags, what to do with the malt bags? It’s one of the problems of being small. Parental discretion advised, text may contain explicit materials some readers may find objectionable. Warranty void if serviced by non-authorised personnel. Do not remove this disclaimer under penalty of law. Keep away from open flames and avoid inhaling fumes. Not responsible for direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect, error or failure to perform. Safety goggles may be required during use. So, if you’re at Woodlea over the next few weeks* (from 29 June) and buying beer, please have a free* t-shirt.* The first anniversary slipped by unnoticed but I thought this time I’d mark the occasion by giving a wee present to the folk who’ve made it possible – the people who’ve bought the beer. More specifically, it’s two years since I first set up my wee stall at Woodlea Stables on Saturday 1 July 2017, still hungover from my work leaving do on the Thursday and a wee night in the village on the Friday. No, it’s two years since I packed in the day job to devote myself (part-time, very) to making beer. ![]() I won’t apologise for that – there’s just not enough to say about making beer so you would need to keep a blog going with opinions and who can be bothered with opinions? ![]() Not two years since the last blog post, although that’s not far off. ![]()
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