The majority of my brews have used fairly standard English hops such as East Kent Goldings, Challenger and Fuggles with a few ventures into the use of Cascade. With this in mind I thought it was time to venture to…
Christmas seems to be rapidly approaching and it was time to do a nice strong, malty brew giving it a couple of months to condition and be just about perfect ready for Yuletide sampling. The recipe I used was from…
On a recent tour of the south coast I managed to shoehorn a tour of Palmers Brewery in Bridport into the schedule, luckily with my wife being pregnant she offered to drive so I could thoroughly sample the beers on…
I’m a big fan of well hopped, citrusy American pale ales (APA) and wanted to try something beyond the cascade hopped brew I’ve done a couple of times to get a more rounded flavour. The Sierra Nevada Brewery were at…
The lovely long hot summer we’ve had this year has had one major drawback; I’ve not been able to brew as it’s been too warm for fermentation in the house and stocks are beginning to run low! Most yeast that…
Following on from the non alcoholic elderflower champagne it would have been wrong of me not to do an alcoholic version of it to enjoy on hot summer evenings we’re having. The recipe I used for this is pretty much…
There’s a lovely self set elderflower in my back garden which is covered in white flower heads and it would be a shame not to use them for some kind of brew. I’d already planned to make some alcoholic elderflower…
Once your lovely new beer is fermented you’re faced with a choice, to bottle or to barrel. I won’t go in to the merits and drawbacks with each method but one of the reasons given for not bottling by a…
Until now I’ve exclusively made beer based on a recipe, either from Graham Wheeler’s book or a recipe from the excellent database at the homebrewforum, most of these have turned out pretty well and I’ve learnt quite a lot by…
So you’ve decided you want to try your hand at brewing some beer, but not quite sure what equipment you need to make your first home brew. You can actually make beer from a kit with very little in the…
