Welcome! This is a space where craft, curiosity, and self-reliance come together.
I write about brewing beer, making cider, and experimenting with all things fermentation, from traditional ales to small-batch seasonal projects inspired by what’s growing in the garden. For me, brewing is both science and art: a balance of microbiology, patience, creativity, and a deep respect for ingredients.
Organic gardening in the Nordics is another cornerstone of my life. Growing food this far north teaches resilience, planning, and working with nature rather than against it. Short summers, long winters, shifting light, everything influences what and how I grow. The garden feeds the kitchen, and the kitchen sometimes feeds the fermenter.
My lifestyle leans toward Nordic homesteading, practical, seasonal, hands-on, while also honoring the years I spent in the Cape Province of South Africa during the 1980s. That experience left a lasting imprint: the climate, the landscapes, the resourcefulness, and the rhythm of everyday life shaped how I see self-sufficiency and community. Even now, influences from the Cape find their way into my brewing experiments, food traditions, and way of living.
Alongside soil and yeast, I have a deep interest in engineering and technology. With a background in (civil) engineering, I enjoy understanding how things work, from structural systems to small mechanical solutions in the workshop. On the digital side, I’m an enthusiastic Linux user and lifelong tinkerer. Open systems, practical problem-solving, and learning by doing are values that connect my technical world with my homesteading one.
When I’m not in the garden, the workshop, or monitoring a fermenter, you’ll often find me exploring simulation worlds, flight simulators, city-building games, and other detailed simulations. There’s something fascinating about complex systems, whether they’re ecological, structural, digital, or virtual.
This website is where all of these threads meet:
- Brewing and fermentation experiments
- Organic Nordic gardening
- Practical homesteading
- Engineering thinking
- Linux and technical explorations
- Simulation and strategy gaming
If you’re interested in making, growing, building, experimenting, and understanding, you’re in the right place.
Welcome.