Tikki Bar

April 24, 2021

A lockdown project which evolved into a micro-brewery!

Well the aim of the project was just to have a platform to serve beer from ( a mini bar) for our Hash House Harriers run planned for the Lechlade festival (May 2020) but due to the lockdown we ended up making something that was still temporary but a little more substantial in an area of the garden that wasn’t used much.

We used reclaimed materials as much as possible. Andy shopped for essential items such as wood for the frame for the roof. We used his left over oak floorboards for the bar top and the ‘fringe’ as a couple of kids fancy dress grass skirts stapled to the underside of the bar. We added features such as solar fairy lights, a shelf for bottles and then popped a little fridge and freezer underneath for wine to cool and ice cubes.

Andy then ventured into making furniture and crafted a neat pallet stool. I sourced some other bar stools from Facebook marketplace

We use the bar on Summer mornings to make omelettes on a little camping gas stove. We have a coffee machine too. In the evenings its a great place to sit and play chess with a citronella candle burning.

Micro Brewery

Again another idea born out of the desire to provide a unique way to enjoy a beer after a hash from a car park or edge of a field or forest!

Andy decided he would brew his own ‘Hash Beer’. The North Wilts HHH emblem is a pig – so he brewed Pig Beer,

The first was a Kune Kune Lager (a Kune Kune Pig is a micro pig) then we had MexiPig, a mexican lager, Brown Snout Stout and the favourite ‘VPA’ -Vegan Pig Ale. Vegan because it has no finings in it. Finings are made from mollusc shells. And then we had a cider request and made Sows Arse cider.