Matthew on July 28th, 2009

 
Beer – Interesting Facts 1
 
The Code of Hammurabi of ancient Babylonia (c. 1750 B.C.) declared that a tradesman could be put to death for diluting beer.
 
(And rightly so, I might add).
 
Thanks,
Matthew – FortyBeers.com

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OK – the moment we’ve all been waiting for…. The opening of Beer Number 1.
We have a tasty little fella from Grand Ridge Brewery in Gippsland, Australia called “Natural Blonde”.
This is a wheat beer, made with water, malt, hops, orange peel and coriander and yeast.  Presumably there is a bit of wheat in there too…
According [...]

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Matthew on July 28th, 2009

Hi – I’ve made a little “Welcome to FortyBeers.com” video.  It is my simple and unsophisticated way of trying to set the scene here…
 
 
I’ve found quite a few home brew recipes that I’ll share over the coming weeks.
I’ve also found some more interesting videos that I’ll add in the pages of this “Brew-ha-ha” as well…… [...]

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Matthew on July 24th, 2009

Welcome to FortyBeers.com
To set the scene :
Recently, yours truly turned 40.  While this was no major achievement in itself, it did provide the opportunity to have a bit of a reflection upon my life thus far.  Some of these reflections might appear within the pages of FortyBeers.com .  It also provided the opportunity to [...]

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