BBQ season is here!

With summer approaching, the sounds of lawn mowers, backyard cricket and sizzling barbeques is music to my ears.  I went to two barbeques on the weekend and I was amazed at the sophistication of the contemporary Australian cook up.

Back when I was growing up in the 70’s Dad’s idea of a BBQ was a fire in a tin bowl on 3 legs.  One leg was crooked.  Everything was burnt.  It was not because he was a lousy BBQer, that was just what people expected.  A burst sausage and a charcol chop.  Maybe some potato salad.

On the weekend it was stainless steel, chickpeas, lamb, duck and veal skewers.

Keeping up with neighbours, impressing friends and modern global tastes are driving this.  As a man, having a better and bigger BBQ than your rivals is a status thing in the same way as a peacock flashes its tail.

I wholeheartedly approve.  Not only are BBQ’s themselves better, but it drives premiumisation of food.  We all eat better and healthier.

Also it means that more people are looking for better sauces and marinades.

The inspiration behind our Cooper’s Ale BBQ sauce was to create a real Aussie BBQ sauce that Australians could call their own.  It is a big seller for us and one of my favourite products.  I have it on everything!  A good BBQ is Australian as it gets.  Enjoy.

Anthony

Anthony Paech, Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

The Strawberry Patch is open!

Finally, we declare our strawberries ready and everyone is welcome to come and pick their own. 

With this perfect spring weather, it’s just lovely up here and we have pretty good “picking conditions” right now.  There are enough ripe ones for you to have a good pick, but I wouldn’t say the berries are abundant.  I was out there just a minute ago and took this photo to show what’s on offer.

I ate it after taking the photo

Go to our farm shop first and you’ll be directed to the patch with the best strawberries that day.  Entry to the patch is $3 (free for kids under 14 years) and the strawberries you pick are $9 per kilo.

Now, some days are better than others, so it pays to check the website or call before you come up because if we have a really, really busy picking day the day before with lots of “pick your owners” (as we call you), the patch could be a bit sparse.  It can be tricky to predict.

We hope to see you soon!

Sally

 

20th October Patch Update

Now it looks like it’s going to be first week of November for official opening of the strawberry season this year.  As you can see here, the strawberries are taking their time to ripen and there are more green than red.  Sally

SA is Great

Last night it was a great honour for us to win the Australia Post Large Business category of the SA Great Regional Awards.  I attended the presentation ceremony and dinner following (nice chicken with orange sauce for mains) and enjoyed seeing some truly excellent Adelaide Hills businesses and community groups receive some well-deserved recognition.

In my acceptance “speech” (dribble), I rudely forgot to thank Australia Post for sponsoring the award, so thanks to them for making it possible.

As one of the other winners pointed out – and we all agreed – the Adelaide Hills is in fact the Centre Of The Universe (didn’t you know?) and by the end of the night we were all feeling quite pleased with ourselves for living and working here.

Sally

More success for Beerenberg

Great news! The Beerenberg Huey range of four products that I talked about a month or two ago are going into Coles Nationally around Australia.  The four products are already on Coles supermarket shelves from Broome to Hobart!

Speaking of Huey, today was an interesting day.  Iain “Huey” Hewiston came in for the day and did some cooking in front of the cameras on our front lawn.  The weather was rubbish with showers and overcast.  I got interviewed in the strawberry patch by Huey in between showers.

The episode should air in a month or so.  I will let you know.

Some of the Adelaide independent supermarket guys – Drakes, Romeos and Foodland House came up today to see us make some strawberry jam and to meet Huey.  Lots of photos. I think they had fun.

We are putting on a BBQ on the Beerenberg lawn tonight and relaxing. Lucky we have the gas heaters, its freezing here.   Still no strawberries.  Check our site in 4 days.

Cheers

Anthony

15th October Patch Update

The strawberries are getting there – plenty of red colour but the rain over the last two days hasn’t helped.  Pick your own should be open later next week.  Sally

6th October Patch Update

Okay, I’ve just been out to the strawberry patch and taken this photo. We’ve had all this overcast weather and rain with very little sunshine, so the strawberries just haven’t had a chance to ripen. This is what most of them look like – green.  It’s going to be another couple of weeks before we can start picking.  Cheers, Sally.

Green Strawberries 6th October

We’ll email you when we’re open for picking

I forgot to say… if you want to be emailed to let you know that the strawberry season at Beerenberg has opened, click on the little arrow attached to the strawberry patch sign and enter your email address.

And we’ll just send you a quick email when the time comes!

Sally (again)

Want to pick your own strawberries?

Strawberry flowers with green fruit starting to emerge

Well, you may be interested in the brand new feature just added to our website – Strawberry Patch updates.

You’ll see the little ‘Strawberry Patch’ sign at the top right of each page on our site.  It lets you know whether we’re open for pick your own strawberries and if so, what the “picking conditions” are like.  We’ll post daily updates on how many strawberries are ripe for picking and what the weather conditions are.

Right now, you’ll see that the Strawberry Patch is “closed”.  The berries are green but each day they’re a little bit bigger and soon they’ll be ripening – we think the patch will be open in two or three weeks.

Just keep checking our site for patch updates!  Thanks to our website geniuses at Enpresiv for developing this for us.  We love it and hope you find it useful in planning your strawberry picking adventures…

Sally Paech

Huey

Fine Foods Sydney this year was great fun.

Iain Hewitson the TV personality and chef was the highlight.  He came to our booth Tuesday so we could let vistors taste test our new range of Huey’s products. These are products made by Beerenberg from Huey’s recipes.

There are four in the range:

Huey’s Hamburger Relish

Huey’s Asian Dressing

Huey’s Teriyaki Grill Sauce

Huey’s No 1 Asian Plum Sauce

You can check more details on them here.  They will be available in Coles and Independent supermarkets in a couple of weeks.

http://www.beerenberg.com.au/go/our-products/retail-products/huey-s-range

These are brand new and Huey was there to show them off.  He attracted a huge crowd and we gave out alot of free samples.

He also signed lots of our Beerenberg teatowels and got hundreds of photos taken.  Including mine.

The show finished yesterday.  We had a bigger booth than normal which was lucky as we had to pack in lots of people trying to get a view.

Thanks Huey!

Cheers, Anthony