Drinking Bers

I’ve got 3 bers currently in the works. The first two were my first attempt at extract brewing and lessons were learned. First of all I figured out a recipe based on Bath Ales Gem using Hopville. The first brew had a couple of stumbling blocks. I added all the LME to the liquor whilst [...]

So I’ve just brewed my first  extract only beer and I’m very excited about it all.  The brew follows a recipe by BrewUK, albeit with a little twist – I added some ginger! I’m not sure how strong the ginger flavour is going to be, it was hard to find any kind of recommendation for how much [...]

Just taken an order from BrewUK for some extract kits that Rich, Graham, and myself will be brewing soon.    I believe Rich has already started off extract brewing, but this will be the first time all of us have exclusively extract brews going on. Keep an eye out on the blog in the coming weeks to [...]

UPDATED:  I opened up the first bottle of Nettle Beer last night, it’s very lively!  It seems it was not fully fermented since it was desperate to come out of the bottle, luckily I managed to let some of the excess gas escape using my finger before pouring a perfect glass with no waste. I [...]

Yesterday I bottled a slightly adapted St Peters Golden Ale Kit, and so far it’s tasting very nice!  There is a hint of orange, and it’s quite floral. The beer had a final OG of 1.012 which after calculations means that we’re looking at a strength of 5.0% ABV. The name of the beer comes [...]

Not sure if this has been posted up here already but for those that are not aware Stroud Brewery is now open on a Friday serving their beer by the glass! We met for an after work drink there and I will certainly be heading back. I cannot think of many other places where you [...]

After the success of the adapted Mild i wanted to continue to tinker with different kits and ingredients, however with Spring approaching i felt it was more appropriate to brew a hoppier beer for enjoying in the longer evenings. I also was keen to make it a more alcoholic beer than my previous two efforts [...]

I’ve just placed an order from the Malt Miller. I found an all grain recipe for a Bath Ales Gem clone on Jim’s Beer Kit but don’t have the kit for all grain. Working with the percentages I’ve roughly figured out a conversion to extract using the highly recommended (although the switch to metric button is [...]