Little experiment this year with a tiny crop of barley. I found some growing last year, so I've used them and some harvested from fields to create a little square metre patch in my garden. If I have a bit more space next year, I'll use these to seed hopefully enough for a small batch of beer from home harvested wheat, hops and some wild yeast. Though it may very well not be enough for even that!
A lovely day out in the woods yesterday making a beer heated entirely with stones. This is I think the fifth time we've brewed in the woods. The first 3 or so times we were direct heating over the flames, only last time my friend suggested we try the old method of using stones. They work like a dream, no nasty soot or smoke to worry about, pretty good temp control. We didn't get up to a rolling boil, but got pretty close to it.
Beer in the Wild! Primitive beer v2. This year, our woodland project was simplified somewhat from the previous year. All fuel to heat the brew came from the local woodland, all cooling was done in a stream adjacent to the brewing site, all water was filtered from the stream. We used smoked malt, but only 1/3 of the grain bill, the rest was based on the Red recipe.