"I'm Getting Lychee...!"

After driving to Bakewell and dropping off my  Vienna IPA  entry into the National Home Brew Challenge, I figured that most likely it would ...

10.5% Triple IPA Brew date 28/7/14 This was my first attempt at making a really high strength beer and it was a special request, with th...

This is just a quick note to explain what an IBU is and how to work out how many of them your homebrew's got. It's also the 100th po...

5.9% IPA Brew date 27/6/14 This was my entry for The Great British Homebrew Challenge 2014 , a competition run jointly by Thornbridge Br...

6.3% Black IPA Brewday 11/5/14 A bit of a belated post here. Just continuing the theme of writing up notes on my last few brews, to get ...

5.0% American Pale Ale Brewday 31 May 2014 There were a lot of firsts in the making of this beer. It was the first time I'd cold cra...

Okay, it's been a very long time since the last post here - ever since we discovered that Untappd is a much better way of sharing beer r...

Hey all We're moving our reviews of commercial beers to Untappd - get in touch if you want to read them there.  This blog will n...

I was handed this at a recent Macclesfield Homebrew Club meeting by Chris from 9 Squirrels Brewing. Thanks Chris - much appreciated! AB...

Brewday - 13/04/14 Boy Racer - 2.8% ABV Pale Ale With a window of brewing opportunity presenting itself at fairly short notice, ...