It's all over - well the year is, anyway! Time for everyone to start winding down and relaxing. If you are looking for a new project for the break, something to do with the kids or a gift suggestion for the family, have a look at one of our Food Starter Kits - Sausages, Smokers, Jerky, Cheese and Chocolates, and make up some great tasting items for Christmas guests.
As our Christmas gift to you, we are re-doing our special deal on the Turbo 500 Starter Kit - a steal at $699. And to make brewing your beer that much easier this summer, we have reduced our incredibly cheap Budget Keg set further, to just $328, including gas bottle. You won't find cheaper than that anywhere.
Our stores will be open right through Christmas and the New Year for all your emergency needs. We'll only be closed on the Public Holidays.
So have a fantastic and safe Christmas and celebrate the New Year with enthusiasm. I hope for many of our customers it starts better than this year did! Thank you for supporting us during this year and we look forward to helping you in the new year.
Cheers David
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Christmas Recipes
Why not try one of these recipes this Christmas to help you celebrate - the traditional egg nog or the highly alcoholic Champagne slushy? If you are a beer drinker, a Golden Ale on a hot Christmas day is a beautiful thing. Enjoy!
Egg Nog
This christmas holiday drink is one that is sure to be a hit at any gathering during the holiday season. With smooth milk flavours and a spike of brandy for a warming finish, it will make a great start or finish to any festivity.
Squire's Golden Ale
This beer's rich orange-amber colour comes from toasted grains of wheat and barley, while new season Amarillo hops create a tropical fruit aroma with restrained bitterness. This beer has a pleasing level of carbonation and a dry finish, perfect for a hot Christmas day
1 Bottle of Champagne
1 Tub Fruit Sorbet
1 Cup Coconut Rum
Fruit - Strawberries, Mango
Place all in a blender and mix.
Chocolate Christmas
Christmas is a special holiday that should be about spending time with your family and taking time to enjoy each other. If you have kids around the house now school is finished, what about something you can do with them and keep them amused for a couple of hours? Brewers Choice has put together a Chirstmas Chocolate Starter Kit - all the bits and pieces (and Christmas Mould) you need to make a huge range of beautiful, rich tasting Chirstmas chocolates. At a special pre-Christmas price of just $39.90, get the kids started today.
For more information on our fun Chocolate Kits, click here.
Product Profile - Soda Stream
Making your favorite softdrinks, flavored sparkling water or energy drink is simple with SodaStream's wide variety of sodamix syrups including regular, diet and caffeine-free options. Flavors include classics like cola, lemon-lime, and root beer, and exotic fruit flavors like orange and mango. You can even make energy drinks, sparkling iced teas and cocktail mixers. Each bottle of sodamix makes about 12 liters of high quality soft drink for a fraction of the price and in an environmentally friendly way, with totally reusable bottles.
Starter kit includes: Machine, Gas Cylinder, PET bottle for just $69.95. Click here for a full product profile.
Buy one before Christmas for the kids and we will throw in any TWO flavours, worth $16.50 for FREE!
Artisan Cheese Kit
Thought about making cheese? Like the sense of pride when you plate up great food to friends and family? Well now you can get all your cheese making equipment and supplies in one kit, at a very special price.
This deluxe beginners' kit combines the Fresh Cheese Ingredient Kit and our Beginners’ Italian Kit, with the ‘tools of the trade’ from the Basic Equipment Kit to give you a vast array of unique fresh cheeses at your fingertips.
Make Feta, Cream Cheese, Light Cream Cheese, Halloumi, Whey Ricotta, Quark,Cottage Cheese, Mozzarella, Whole Milk Ricotta, Ricotta Salata and Mascarpone.
Normally $160, now just $130 until Christmas. Click here to take advantage of this great offer!
Brewers Choice Supports Prostate Cancer Research
As a way of giving something back to the community that supports us, the staff at Brewers Choice have decided to support the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.
To do this we will have donation points at all of our stores and during all Brewers Choice events, as well as running specific fund raising activities. We see this as an important contribution to the overall health and wellbeing of Australian men - our biggest group of customers. We hope that you also will support the Foundation where ever you see a Prostrate Cancer Foundation collection box in our stores.
Staff Profile
Name: Joe Curtis
Position: Marketing Officer
Star Sign: Pisces
Why do you love your job? I love being able work in an industry that is awesome fun and has such down to earth customers.
Favourite Brew:
Homebrew – Hefeweizen Fresh Wort.
Craft beer – Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
What are you doing when you’re not at work? I’m usually watching sport on tv or at the stadium, doing uni assignments, blogging, going new places or sharing great beer with friends and loved ones.
If you were a beer, which one would you be? Why? I’d be a Bass Pale Ale. I love the history of brands and this brand was the UK’s first ever registered trade mark.
Favourite quote: It is all about moderation. Everything in moderation, including moderation itself. What logically follows is that you must, from time to time, have excess. Beer is for those times.
Movember Wrap up
A big thanks to our customers who donated to the company Movember fund to support James & Joe's moustache growing efforts (Joe's mo is pictured left). In total we raised $150 which has been submitted to the Movember organisiers at the Prostrate Cancer Foundation. If you didn't get a chance to donate in store, there is still time to donate online.
Customer Feedback Survey Winner!
Congratulations to Paul Boman! Paul filled out the Brewers Choice customer feedback survey and in return for the time he took, he has WON 2 nights accomodation at Mantra Resort - Kingscliff! It's a beautiful resort and we're sure Paul will feel like he has been away for a week. We thank everyone who took the time to fill out the survey for their honest feedback. There are a heap of great suggestions which we plan to put it into action in the coming months, to better improve our service to you.
Sausage Starter Kits
The last of our Starter Kits for Christmas, the Sausage Starter Kit. Contains all you need to make your first batch of flavoursome, healthy sausages - Sausage Gun, Nozzles, Collagen Casings and Seasonings for 5Kg of your own boutique sausages.
You can make a wide range of International sausages like Boerwurst, Pepperoni, Chorizo and Kabana. Or try our gourmet range - Thai Red Chilli; Coriander, Cracked Pepper and Basil; Honey, Roast Beef and Dijon Mustard; and Herb and Garlic.
They are easy to make and sooo much more tasty than what you can buy at the supermarkets. You know what's in them and you can serve them with confidence and pride. Great for your Christmas bbq.
To see the full range of seasonings and bits, click here
**NEW** Taking your Scotch experience to a whole new level
Brewers Choice now has the new Still Spirits Single Malt Whisky essence. A Speyside style Single Malt whisky with light fruit notes and a golden colour. Add a dash of water to release rich cut-hay aromas very similar in taste to that of Glenfidich.
If once you have tried this great essence you are inspired to take the next step and develop your own single malt recipe, you can use our Whisky Profile Kit. Our unique Whisky Profile Kit not only allows you to make authentic recreations of many of the world’s most famous whiskys, you can even create your own tailor made spirit to exactly your taste.
How good is it? A loyal Spirits customer tells it like this: "Originally purchased the kit to get as close as I could to “Black Douglas” (a blended whisky) as my wife would drink nothing else. A bit of experimenting with the profiles saw me come up with a recipe, which my wife now prefers and cannot drink the real thing. I also make great Single Malts, Irish Whiskey and Bourbon which is in the recipe booklet that comes with the kit – Best thing I ever bought!"
Barry R- Customer, Chapel Hill Store
And it that doesn't convinve you, Victor B of Sinnamon Park, another Chapel Hill customers says: Being of Slav heritage, I am cautious of other people’s recommendations on products and have never seen the need to elaborate on these after purchase. However, in this case I would like to say that in purchasing the profile kit, I am so pleased with the advice and subsequent purchase of this, I would recommend this to any whisky lover.
For more information on the various regions and styles of Scotch Whisky, all of which can be produced using your Profile Kit, click here.
A new wave in hop use (Excerpt from Belgium Shop Newsletter)
Brewers have been making beer for well over 5,000 years, but amazingly hops have only been a main ingredient for the past few hundred years. Even more incredible is that hops have only been utilized for their diverse aroma and flavor contributions – for only the past decade or two. It’s a split of a split second in terms of beer’s timeline.
American craft brewers have recently initiated the not-so-traditional flavour and aroma characters that beer drinkers generally know as floral and fruity. But it’s far more interesting than just “fruity and floral.” Click here to read on about the new and interesting ways that hops are being explored.
