I haven't home brewed in a while & the ingredients were just lying around. I invited some friends over & I brewed on the patio whilst we drank the remainder of previous homebrews.

Originally the idea was to taste the difference between Cascadeⁱ & Liberty hops by brewing two identical beers, bar the hops in question.

Since my favourite style of beer is a pale ale with a citrussy hoppy flavour - but had already done 2 recently that were quaffing strength - I thought I'd make a proper sipping beer.

One of my top 5 favorite beers.

Running out of homebrew to share was looking likely, but I managed to find just over 3 hours to brew 2 batches of a stock ale so that when I have more time next week I can bottle it & perhaps b

Whilst the news is that pale, hoppy beers are good for you, I went for a change in my usual style & brewed a d

This beer is named after my wife, Rhian.

Due to impending redundancy from work & a house move, I will have to stop brewing for a while.   So to use up most of my remaining ingredients I've made Insane Pale Aleⁱ.   M

After a success with a Cascadeⁱ-grapefruit beer last summer I thought I'd try another easy drinking super hoppey beer.

Inspired by my recent trip to Bruges on the Eurostar, I decided to get some homebrew on the go.   My previous IPAⁱ was almost out & I had a weekend with nothing much planned coming up.