I'm rather lucky, in that my day job allows me to work from home and doesn't take up a lot of my time. It means that I can help look after my daughter and my wife and also find time for the occasional brewday. It's still less than a year …
It's been a couple of months since the last missive. In the meantime I took delivery of my kit from Homebrewbuilder, started laying it out in the garage and then decided that for the sake of a few quid, I could upgrade to 100L fermentors (not his conicals - yet) and …
So, my first excursion on my new kit didn't go *that* well at first... Don't get me wrong, the kit worked fine, everything nicely made and finished - it was the bits that I put together that didn't go so well.
The plan was for a single hop Chinook pale, mostly …
This is something I've been thinking about since I started collecting my Christmas beer stash. Despite my attempts to shop locally and support local producers, like almost everyone else, we end up at the supermarket because it's easy. So, despite getting a case in from Beer Ritz, and coming across …
I haven't written much here recently as it's all been a bit disheartening. I have still been struggling with kit a bit and I'm yet to make anything I'm happy with although, but here's a summary of the last two brews in the hope that it might provide a bit …
The intention for this beer was a pale ale with NZ hops. I don't want to say an NZ pale as I wasn't sure of my small antipodean hop stash, so the recipe was this:
Late to the party as usual, but here's my piece for Session 91.
It was about 1990 or 1991, when Tesco came to Doncaster town centre. Flush with first job cash, I decided to get a selection from their pretty remarkable selection of beer for my Christmas holiday drinking delectation …
As I really started this blog to talk about my experiences in home brewing with the possible intention of becoming a proper brewer, I suppose I had better write something for Session 92.
Beer has been a interest of mine for many years. I started my drinking career in the …
Update 21/10/14: Box have told me that Criminales was developed for the export market and picked up by B&M, who decided to sell it in the UK. They've also told me that there's a second batch was tweaked a little and is also in B&M - look …
It's been a while since I did this, the proper job and a small child take up whatever time I have to the point where a working lunch at the local every now and then is the closest I get to a bar (it's a nice bar anyway), and I …
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