• Best Bitter 2025 – Part I: Recipe Development

    For a long time, I’ve avoided attempting to brew any British ales due to my lack of temperature control. I plan to change this during the early months of 2025, using the cooler ambient temperature to my advantage.  Growing up in the Sussex countryside, I was fortunate enough to come of age just as the…

  • Smoked Ale 2024 – Recap

    For the last couple years it has become something of a Christmas tradition for me to brew a smoked beer for my friends. This started in 2022, when I first tried beers from Schlenkerla and decided to put my own spin on smoked beer using saison yeast along with a mix of Munich malt, oak…

  • Cyser 2024 – Recap

    Cyser – A type of mead that’s made by fermenting honey with apple juice or apples instead of water. The result is a sweet and tart drink that’s both a mead and a melomel. If I’ve learnt anything from this experiment it is that I hate the name cyser. I feel it doesn’t match the…

  • Cream Ale 2025 – Part I: Recipe Development

    Back in 2020 like many people, I took to homebrewing using a popular small batch all grain kit. After knocking out this initial espresso stout, I was hooked and started building my own recipes with help from the book Brew by James Morton. One of my more successful brew days was a California Common. Reasonably,…

  • Issue #1

    I love how people romanticise their passions. But there is no exact point where mixed, wild, and spontaneously fermented beers grabbed my interest. There was no world-shaking first encounter. A friend didn’t guide me through my first sip of geuze. Instead, as I slowly learnt about beer styles, two things about lambic production stuck with…