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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 …
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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 …
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 …
What causes bottle bombs and what to do about it. Read more »
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 …
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 …
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 …
Yesterday was the 2017 London And South East Craft Brewing Competition, one of the three major homebrewing events on the UK calendar. For the second year running I was there as a judge, and as an entrant. This competition is …
One of the things that makes homebrewing in the Internet age such fun is the wonderful online community of brewers. The hobby is absolutely thriving online and it doesn’t matter what part of the hobby you are a part of, …
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Last year, I brewed a Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter and it was a lovely beer. As I am in the middle of brewing a batch of this beer again, I thought this would be a good time to demonstrate how …
Whilst I am not always active here on the blog, I am very active on social media and especially Facebook. I am honoured to be a part of the admin team for the UK Craft Beer Network and the associated …
It’s been a busy weekend. For the first time since I started all grain brewing years ago, I have 3 fermenters full of fermenting beer at once. Several years ago was the last time I had 3 on the …