Dizzy Izzy – Brew Day
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…
Pacific Gem New Zealand Ale – Goldy Looking Gem
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 Brew – Robinsons Old Tom Clone
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…
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone
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…
Alcoholic Elderflower Champagne Recipe
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…
Alcohol Free Elderflower Champagne Recipe
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…
Brewday – Renovation Ale
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…
Hop Back Summer Lightning
The calendar seemed to suggest we should be heading into summer so I decided to have a go at a clone of Hopback brewery’s excellent Summer Lightning. This is a fresh hoppy beer with plenty of aroma that is perfect…
