Wednesday 12th January started as an ordinary brewday at 7.00 in the morning putting the mash on for an 8bbl brew of Scholar. This promised to be interesting as we are swapping a hop out to build the flavour profile (Scholar uses five hop varieties introduced in three stages). Somehow it turned into a media day with BBC TV South Today filming bittering hops going into the copper at 13.00 and carrying out a news interview. Then quite separately I was called by the BBC Radio Oxford Drivetime show at 2.30 for an interview. Was this a new upsurge in interest in local brewing? No.
It was because we responded to a BBC South Today item on the previous evening concerning late/missing post in Oxfordshire. They asked anyone who had suffered from this to email in which we did because we have had letters taking weeks to get to us since November - it's a bit embarassing to chase money from customers to be told they sent it weeks before. Anyway, before you could say "crap royal mail" we had a media invasion
Well, I did enjoy my 15 seconds on telly as "grumpy old man" at 6.30 which I just got home in time to see. And the beer? Well the late hops went in a bit later than usual but hey, what comes first, telly or beer?
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