the finished product

as you can tell, i really took in everything about how to make beer ... but i really enjoyed seeing the end result. there were hundreds and hundreds of barrels of great tasting beer all waiting to be sampled.

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malt, malt, malt!

the brewing process uses malt and lots of it! different types of malt give different results,
as we were able to try for our selves!


beers also use hops which are picked and dried and then turned into pellets! in the olden days they didn't use pellets, so the sacks of hop flowers were huge - probably 20 times bigger than me! now they're in pellets they are tiny!it all gets bunged into this clever rotator, complete with water and its brewed into yummy beer! shepherd neame use its own water from a stream that runs underneath the brewery. it's thought that clever monks did the same hundreds of years ago on the same site.
as you can tell i understand everything about the brewing process(!)

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how the beer beargins

this room used to be used to help create the malt for the beer. it's all done very diffferently now, thanks to clever technology and things.

it was a small room and we had to mind our heads, not a problem for small bears!
They'd do some clever things to the hops and barley to make 'em small

and then toasted 'em in this large, large kiln.
thankfully it wasn't on or it would have singed my fur!

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bear's busy brewery tour

there were lots and lots of people on the tour, which meant that bears had to stand on things to see what was going on.
this here is the main walkway between all the different places where mr shepherd and mr neame make their splendid beears. beers, sorry.
it's quite a victorian feat of engineering and jolly marellous too
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Nose to nose

The first stop on our tour of the Shepherd Neame brewery was through its offices to get to the brewery! On our way, we saw this delightful statue, which was given to Mr Shepherd Neame by the makers of Hürlimann Sternbräu, a lovely Swiss lager. Everyone on the tour was encouraged to pat its nose, so i did :)
thankfully, he didn't find it ticklish, not even flinching. in fact, he wooden go anywhere.

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Bear's big beer adventure!

Hello friends,
I hope you enjoyed your big bank holiday weekend. lovely weather we had, for once!
sorry i wasn't able to blog live as i'd hoped ... technology didn't work out as planned :(
still, i'm back and can now start to tell you all about my thrilling trip to Faversham, where i learnt all about beer... mmmm!
and not only did I learn about it, i even enjoyed some bear-sized beer glasses-full of lovely shepherd neame beers.

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bank holiday hopes :)

hello again friends
here we are trying to get a good drink from an old water pump.
we weren't successful - but we did admire the swans gliding gracefully by :)

we're about to head off on another mini-adventure. if the technology works out we might even be able to blog as we travel.

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bear
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