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3 months – 7 Brews – 500 Tonnes Of Gravel

by Nick | Sep 5, 2018 | Brewing Equipment, Our Beer, The Story

3 months – 7 Brews – 500 tonnes of gravel It’s been an action-packed period at Bucketty! We’ve come a long way since the first batch and my last post. A journey of progress, heartache and hard lessons. Let me break it up for your easy digestion. Brewing &...

Cracking Our First Brew!!!

by Nick | May 2, 2018 | Brewing Equipment, Our Beer, The Story

As I write, I’m licking my lips at our beautifully handcrafted IPA, cracked for the first time only a few short hours ago. It was all worth it. Every drop of blood, sweat, tears and every dollar invested. This is quite possibly the best beer I’ve ever tasted. The...

The brewing equipment’s here!

by Nick | Mar 2, 2018 | Brewing Equipment, The Story

It actually arrived in December last year… It sat in the neighbour, “Chicken Man Dave’s” shed for the past 2.5 months while I’ve worked out how to Dad. While on that subject, hats off to anyone out there that’s ever had a child. Asher McDonald was born, ...

The 100L Brewery Is On It’s Way!

by Nick | Nov 9, 2017 | Brewing Equipment, The Story

Today we took a leap of faith. We wired across 95% of the remaining payment ($8,000USD) to our friends the Chinese city of Jinan with a population of 7mil. Basically a country town over there. These guys now have a fair whack of our cash, so I’ve asked for as many...

Pilot Brewery Ordered!

by Nick | Sep 28, 2017 | Brewing Equipment, The Story

Today is a great day. Today is the day I ordered and paid a deposit on our first piece of brewing kit. A stainless steel chariot containing a 100L kettle, 2 x 100L fermenters and a 300L glycol cooling unit. Here’s a photo of a similar kit the manufacturers had just...

Time to Get a Pilot Brewery

by Bucketty's Brewery | Aug 13, 2017 | Brewing Equipment

Ok, it’s time to get serious. Let’s buy our first piece of legitimate brewery tech. The pilot brewery. The problem with regular home brew setups is their susceptible to margins of error. If temperature drops slightly without you noticing, then there is a chance the...