What a great concept. Hell I'd take a day off work to brew end to end on a commercial brewery. I've done a number of commercial brewdays, but was pretty much just the lacky. This takes it one step further.
Willie Simpson discovers that a 'brewery tour' can be hard work.PLENTY of people fantasise about becoming a craft brewer but few appreciate the hard yakka involved in small-scale beer making. Scott Wilson-Brown, of Red Duck Brewery in Camperdown, dreamed up his "live like a brewer for a day" event so he could put his feet up and issue orders to a trio of wannabe brewers. They, in turn, got to make a batch of pale ale and learn the ropes."We wanted to do something for the people on our mailing list that no one else could offer," Wilson-Brown says. "There are plenty of brewery tours - which all seem to end with a tasting in the lovely cellar door - but we don't have a cellar door, so we can't offer that."I thought there must be plenty of curious beer lovers out there who would relish the opportunity to experience a brew day - the stress, work, worry, waiting, heat and sweat, and then the elation when the wort is finally cooled, yeast pitched and fermenter sealed. Then it's time for a cleanser and congratulations."
