Project Venus: Lots of fantabulous lady brewers, or brewsters.
I think it's quite fitting.
Project Venus has been going for about a year or so now, and after watching it grow, I've become one of the Project Venus gals. So what exactly do we do? We all meet up once every few months at one of our breweries and make a one-off, unique, collaborative brew. Simples.
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After such an inordinate amount of exited brewster chin-wagging, posing for pictures, and removing our one shovel-full of mash each, we needed sustinance. Patsy and John (her lovely hubby) had made some scrummy spiced butternut squash soup, which went down a treat. And of course, once the brew was in, we went for our evening 'debrief' at the pub up the road.
Dinner with the girls (plus the odd honorary husband or two, and a token male engineer) was lovely. It was good to chat more whilst drinking Patsy's wonderful beer, and plan the next few brew days - we're off to Zero Degrees in spring, and coming to me at Welbeck in the summer (hooray!)
So, we've established that the day was brill fun, but what was the result?
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We went to the official launch of Venus Gold at the Port Street Beer House in Manchester, where we sampled the very first few pints. This is a 3.8%ABV pale ale, brewed using a variety of hops along an astronomy theme - Galaxy and Stella (and a bit of Cascade for good measure) . It's a gorgeous, super hoppy, citrussy, fresh and zingy pale ale which is incredibly moreish. Good work girlies.
So Patsy has dished out the beer to the various brewsters and I have 2 casks of it which will ONLY be available at the Mallard in Worksop tomorrow night from 7pm. You'll not get it anwhere else close - the brewsters are from all over the UK so the beer has been spread far and wide.
See you there then :0)