Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
Brothers Beer is a local warehouse brewing bar at the City Works Depot with around twenty craft beers on tap, featuring their own excellent brews and guest beers from Australasia, the US and sometimes further afield.
Kind of apt that I was there with my brother eh! Here we're trying out the Stone & Wood Cloud Catcher APA and the Zeffer Apple Crumble cider. Both very tasty.
They have hundred's of bottled beers for sale as well, being craft beers the place is almost like an art gallery for creative beer labels. The warehouse feel is subdued nicely with an eclectic range of old furniture and interesting items like the old pedal car to the left.
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