I have named this beer in honour of a friend from Seaham, County Durham who has just bought himself a homebrew setup & brewed his first beer - an all grain APA - last week.

I wanted another American Pale Aleⁱ ready to drink for my birthday in a few weeks & am using the last of my pale malt up.

My favourite style of beer is American Pale Aleⁱ & no suprises then that I've brewed a few (they're all on this website);

American Pale Ale
Simcoe Liberty Bitter
Simcoe Cascadeⁱ Bitter

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.

Originally the idea was to taste the difference between Cascadeⁱ & Liberty hops by brewing two identical beers, bar the hops in question.   Having said that, I've reduced the amount of

I have a theory that my beer clears better when crystal malt have been used.   I have some new Simcoe hops which I want to try, but they are a strongly bittering hop (12.9% alpha acid).&n

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.

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

This beer is named after my wife, Rhian.