A Life of Faff

To celebrate our first anniversary of homebrewing beer I have decided to tell you my top tips for homebrewing beer!

A light refreshing American pale ale homebrewed to be shared with friends. This was our Christmas beer that we brewed to share with...

It was time to make another stout. This time a milk stout. This beer gets its name from the addition of the milk sugar, Lactose into the...

Continuing our experimentation with different styles of beers, this time we brewed an American wheat beer. We have never brewed a wheat...

We decided to re-brew another one of our beers again! This time we decided to take on our juicy fruit pale ale recipe. Last time we...

In our local pub they have a selection of books for browsing and one book including Mikkeller's Book of Beer. When we first started...

So we decided it was time to take it back to basics with another SMaSH IPA. SMaSH stands for single malt, single hops, so it is as simple...

We wanted to give the Citrillo (Citra and Amarillo) IPA another go, so we decided it was time for a re-brew. Last time we brewed this...

A Mosaic and Simcoe pale ale which we aptly called our Juicy Fruit Pale ale after its incredibly rich and fruity aroma! Recipe planning...

We have got to the point now where we have brewed 4 IPAs so we thought it would be a fun learning experience to go through and critically...

Our first ever stout recipe brewed to support the fight against the injustices Black people face all around the world! Story behind the...

It was time to step up our game for brew #4. But deciding what to brew next was the real challenge. During lockdown we have been brewing...

Another Saturday, another brew day, and given our continued novice status, another simple SMaSH IPA was on the cards. SMaSH stands for...

There are 100s of beer styles, spanning a great deal of history and brewing traditions. From Africa, Europe and the Americas, there is so...

We brewed a Citra SMaSH IPA! As fun as it was brewing beer using a kit, D and I decided we wanted to try all-grain brewing, i.e. making...

So the UK is under coronavirus lockdown and as a scientist I can't go to the lab to do experiments so I need to fill my days somehow....