Pizza n books.

Barbecues with too many charcoal briquettes and pizza are not good friends, unless you want the pizza to be utterly nuked... It looked fine 2 minutes ago, honestly... Oh, I dunno. Not fun. I might try again, with less coals, but next pizza will be from the ordinary oven anyway.

So I've released 3 books today, trying to revive bookcrossing singlehandedly. Chat n chew coffee shop in Newbridge has a book swap shelf already, so that's the drop point of choice. It's kinda handy, though I had a look through some of the books and none of them had a bookcrossing ID, so maybe it's not caught on.

A great song for a nice cold beer and a barbecue

It's the "I Like Beer" song! Which I found embedded at this website, but thought I'd share with you myself! It's a nice day for a cold one, must be nearly time to light up the barbecue! No road trips today, just some weather-related moseying and reading and a few bits round the house - only a small few mind!

Brewferm Gallia.....

I'd definitely brew it again. Even if I over-carbonated the last batch (or because it's been sitting there for 4 months...), it's still a tasty beer. I do like the Brewferm kits, because to be honest, they're in small enough batches (about 10-13 litres, generally) that you don't have too much bottling to do, or to find bottles for. And they mostly taste nice!

Gallia went well with the first Barbecue of the year, though we ate indoors - it got cold a bit quickly this evening...just finishing roast banana with meringue...mmm..

I missed the Irish Craft Brewer's Brew It Yourself day today, (as advertised here, and here, and other places too) in Franciscan Well in Cork. I had half-thought about making it down, but the guilt of looking at the garden, and the state of the shed meant I had to stay home.

Oh, and the Bulmers Pear stuff, it's quite nice aswell - a can is being emptied as we speak. Decanted, from the glass, to the person. I babble. Onwards, and upwards. Bizarre to be thinking of lighting a fire after the spectacular weather and temperature we had today, but it's gone quite cool and Met Éireann promise frost, so there's excuse enough.....