Stocks after Xmas were pretty low so in early February I finally managed to get the first brew of the new year on. I got up nice and early thanks to my new alarm clock; a month old daughter, was…
Seems I’ve been pretty lapse about posting for the last few months, though I’ve not brewed a while lot since October really. This was the last of my ‘stocking up for Xmas’ brews. it was based on Graham Wheeler’s recipe…
With Christmas fast approaching it was time for another brew to get the stocks up ready for the festive season. Nothing particularly fancy about this beer, just a good, solid and hopefully tasty easy drinking session type beer. I wanted…
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…
