Beer judges want feedback too.
Whilst I am a experienced and BJCP certified beer judge, I think it would be fair to say I am still a hobby judge. It is not a profession for me. No one pays me to judge their competition. I …
Author: sarah
Sarah is an experienced home brewer, a qualified BJCP beer judge, organiser of the Welsh National Homebrew Competition and sometimes Brewtuber under her home brewery name, Daft Cat Brewing
What causes bottle bombs and what to do about it.
One of the topics that seem to come up quite often in various Facebook groups is the subject of bottle bombs. This happens when a bottle of beer explodes, normally in a quite spectacular fashion, as it is no longer …
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Harlequin hop SMaSH beer
I always seem to forget to write posts here, so please forgive the gap between posts. After writing a thread on Twitter about my latest beer, I realised that perhaps I should blog it and tweet the blog instead. A …
In defence of beer judges
A very lively German Pilsner
I’ve been umming and ahhing about posting anything for over a week now but I feel I need to get this off my chest. After every beer competition, I regularly see comments about how the judges are wrong, how a …
Sour Cherries – The 2017 UK National winning beer
16th September 2017 Quick update on this beer This beer has just won the UK National Homebrew Competition 2017! Getting a gold in it’s flight and then getting overall gold after beating all the other beers in the best of …
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Beer glass cleaning. How do you clean yours?
With 175 glasses to clean after the 2017 Welsh National, I thought I would share my glass cleaning process and ask how you clean yours.
Welsh National Homebrew Competition 2017 judging timelapse
Come with me, behind the scenes of the WNHC 2017. Competition judging from start to finish in just over 3 minutes. Thanks so much to all our sponsors, volunteers and you, the homebrewers for making this year awesome. Roll …
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Welsh National Homebrew Competition Results 2017
Full results from the 2017 Welsh National Homebrew Competition.
Home Brew Wednesday 28th June 2017
Happy Homebrew Wednesday all. I’ve been doing a bit of brew related shopping this week so a quick look at the sale stuff I found and a look behind the scenes of organising a competition. I have beer everywhere …
Ace / Klarstein / Hopcat brew day June 2017
Start to finish brew day using the Ace / Klarstein microbrewery. Starting with how to set up the program we go all the way through to getting your beer into a fermenter Here I was brewing a test batch …
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