Black IPA Recipe

Black IPA Recipe – Brewing A Classic Black IPA

One beer that seems to wax and wane in popularity is the Black IPA. Getting the balance of colour, flavour and hop aroma is a fine art and I think this black IPA recipe gets that balance right. A few key ingredients are necessary but try…
Porter Recipe

Porter Recipe – Brewing A Perfect Porter

I love dark beers of all kinds but porter has to be one of my favourite styles of beer. I have brewed porters at home and commercially and have tried plenty of styles so this is porter recipe going to share is one of my favourites and I…
How To Make Braggot
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Making A Braggot – Basic Braggot Recipe

Beer and mead. These two drinks are as old as history itself. Wherever there are fermentable grains you find beer. Wherever there’s plenty of honey you find mead. And when both are in abundance, you get braggot.  Braggot is not always…
Brewing A Kettle Sour
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Kettle Sour: Brewing Your First Kettle Soured Beer

You can love it. You can hate it. But there’s no denying the fact that sour beer is an integral part of the vast and intriguing world of beer. Sour beers have enjoyed an immense rise in popularity lately and in particular, kettle soured…
Brown Ale
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Brown Ale Recipe + Spiced Brown Ale

It’s nearly December already. Every year around I has gotten into the habit of brewing a spiced beer for Christmas. My wife now insists that this happen and it’s turned into something of a family tradition. Usually, I would spice a whole…
Coconut Stout Recipe

Coconut Stout Recipe – A Decadent Coconut Milk Stout

Coconut can sometimes be a divisive flavour but I happen to like it. I have seen a few coconut beers from commercial breweries over the years and I like the idea so wanted to brew my own. This coconut milk stout recipe happened to go…
Raspberry Gose Recipe

Raspberry Gose Recipe – Salty & Tart

When it comes to brewing your own beer you soon come to realise there are no hard and fast rules. You have nobody to please except yourself, this Gose recipe is by no means conventional and may even have most people scoffing at how it is made.…

Hazy IPA Recipe & A Few Tips To Get Hazy IPA’s Right

Recently, I have been more and more intrigued by the techniques around brewing hazy and often downright murky New England IPAs. People can’t seem to get enough of them and it would seem people often associate the murk levels in these hazy…
Imperial Stout Recipe

Imperial Stout Recipe – Big, Bold & Delicious

There are some beer styles that really stick out from the norm. Imperial Stouts are one of those beer styles that elevates beer as a drink to something higher. There is plenty of history that surrounds Russian Imperial Stouts, enough to fill…
Clone Beer Recipes
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Clone Beer Recipes – Recreate Your Favourite Commercial Beers

When I started brewing my first few beers were commercial beers I’d tried to recreate. In essence, they were a clone beer. I would say that was somewhat of my motivation to start brewing in the first place, I wanted to recreate some of my…