After thinking about how to make better beer at home last week and a successfully brewed cerveza I wanted to up my game and build a fermentation box to lager. The number one objective is to make the brewing process with the least amount of effort – no lifting heavy things, transferring fluids around as…

It’s been a while since I last did any homebrew beer but for some reason I had the motivation to put on a new brew when I got back from vacation.  Nothing fancy, just a simple kit. The one new piece of equipment I got was a conical fermenter.  The Fermentasaurus is a pretty neat…

Over the last week I have been driving 3000km across Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to kick off a summer vacation.  We took the opportunity to stop and see a few things along the way. So many things to see in this country. Quebec City was a particular surprise. It was a beautiful…