Category Archives: Home brew

UPDATE 24/06/2011: first couple of bottles we’ve tried taste rather nice, and it was interesting to compare it to a pint of the real thing (Badger First Gold) whilst in Poole the other weekend – tastes very similar! Having had … Continue reading →

After the failure of Brew#4 back in July, finally got the courage up to do a brew for our (lucky) visitors over Christmas. It’s a standard stock bitter recipe from Jim’s Beer Kit with the addition 15g of Goldings hops … Continue reading →

After the pleasant Brew#3 I tried another run with almost the same recipe. Got the yeast and malt from @jwebster (at a bargain price!). Unfortunately something happened during fermentation and the beer got a weird metallic aftertaste that Martin thought … Continue reading →

Can’t remember too much about this one other than it got drunk extremely quickly, hence brew#4 happening so soon after. My last brew using bottles. Took some pics of the Heath Robinson set I have, using a cool box to … Continue reading →