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Ok so, I took my annual vacation in September and headed off to the USA to visit friends and drink beers from more breweries than you can...

Oh boy has it been hot, very hot. If we were all on holiday on a Greek island it’s exactly what we’d want it to be, but working in it is...

Like many folk I have a fascination for the weather that borders on a fixation. On brewing days I tune in to the Shipping Forecast at...

“So you wait for ages and then three come along at once.” So opined the late great folk singer extraordinaire Fred Wedlock in his...

The September hop walk returned this year in all its glory: a time when we brewers make our annual pilgrimage to the hop gardens of...

Brewing English-style beer is a pretty straight forward process. You mix grain with hot liquor (water) to make a mash which is very...

Can’t help but think that maybe I am a bit of a pedant and maybe, just maybe that goes with the territory of being a brewer. My...

Dearly Beloved, my text for today is taken from the Brewhouse Notice Board Scrolls Chapter 1 Verse 1, “And Lo, it is written that the...

Many folk might think that the trend for citrus flavoured beers made with high alpha American hop varieties is a new thing as there has...

How many times have we seen this? Man walks in to a pub (and it is invariably a bloke) and orders a pint from a hand pump, and what does...

One Sunday, a fair few years ago now I arranged to meet an old friend of mine who was passing by our brewery and wanted to have a look...

I guess it’s customary to review the year just past as we slide through the open door leading to a new Utopia. Ha! Well drinking a cup of...

In the ebb and flow of production and demand, November is always a quiet month – even in a normal year! It may be a nadir for pubs and...

Ken Discusses brewing of Pigor Mortis The brewing wheel turns a little more and the year cycle takes us to the annual brewing of the...

Brewing is all about rhythm, and rhythm is comforting. So in the brewing year The Fall is a very special time. It’s when we brewing folk...