Blackberries

    We have a huge amount of blackberries growing on this island. The first year we lived here I spent every day during August picking them and making jams and sauces and desserts. They were great Christmas presents. But now we have barrels with beer and...

Black Currants into the Chianti Foudre

Black Currants Beautiful beautiful black currants.  Super ripe so we put all 500kg into the barrel. The base beer was a lovely light bodied saison which soured with our Garden Party culture over the course of a year in a 2500 liter chianti foudre. I am not sure what...

‘She’s In Charge’

And now for a little episode that TV2 Bornholm did on us. Seeing I knew the interviewer and she followed me around with the camera man for about 4 hours during a brew day, I was very relaxed and chatty and generally myself. I also thought they would edit out all of...

Jester King – Texas comes to Bornholm

                  What a couple of days. Seven of the Jester King crew came over and spent a couple of days on the island. We ate. We drunk. We foraged. We farmed. And eventually we brewed. A month before they arrived, they...

3rd Round of Barrels Arriving

              Another day and another truck pulls up at the brewery. We know the delivery men by name now as they come here almost daily. They even know where the key is so they can put stuff inside if we are not around. But back to...

Blueberries!

        Today we put 20kg of organic blueberries from Denmark’s oldest blueberry plantation into a sour blonde brewed with our Garden Party Culture that has been ageing in a 220L Bordeaux barrel. The Bornholm blueberry plantation is 50 years...