Fresh Start Elements 1st Try!

Yesterday we made beer!

Homebrewing is fun, especially when you do it with a bunch of good friends.

All-grain procedures are longish and difficult but I think it’s the right way to homebrew.

We are trying a new recipe. We wanted to know what spelt will give to the final brew so this is the malt composition:

20% Spelt

20% Pilsner

60% Munich

We had 20 liters and so decided to divide the wort in 4 parts, so that we can then taste 4 different beers with the same malt composition but 4 different kinds of hop.

We used:

- Hallertau Hersbrucker

- Saaz

-Tettnanger

- Styrian Golding

Then we used a SafeAle yeast.

I really had a good time homebrewing. I even found the time to do a little NCAS demo with Rita and Alessandro.

We’ll see in the future if these 4 beers will be good or bad brews.

 

Non Cedere Al Sonno – DRYH Italian Version

We are waiting for the printer to give us the books, so right now I can’t shout loud “NON CEDERE AL SONNO”
but if everything goes right we’ll have the books this thursday and we’ll begin demoes and presentations at the Italian AmberCON during the MiniMOD mini-convention.

Meanwhile I’m going to thank Fred Hicks, the author of the game, for writing the game and for the nice words he wrote about us in his livejournal.

I’m one of the guilties for this translation as I’m actually the editor of the project (so you’ll know who do you have to shoot if you don’t like the book). Part of the editor work and much part of the translation work was done by Renato. The copy-editing for this project was done by me and Niccolò, while Ciro and Giulia (my fiancée) did translations with Renato. Simone is the other madman who embarked himself and myself in this project (not actually the DRYH translation, the whole “game publishing” project…)

I think I’ll write some more after AmberCON (don’t have laptop, don’t think that wireless will be available
during AmberCON).