Session IPA Recipe: Low ABV, Big Flavour
Session IPAs have become a staple for UK craft beer lovers, offering the hop-forward punch of a classic IPA but with a lower alcohol content. This means you can enjoy…
How to Bottle and Carbonate Homebrew Beer
Bottling and carbonating your own homebrew beer is a rewarding milestone for any UK brewer. The process to bottle carbonate homebrew beer demands attention to detail, cleanliness, and patience, but the end result—a lively, well-carbonated…
How to Brew Gluten-Free Beer
Homebrewing gluten-free beer in the UK has never been more approachable, with improved access to ingredients and clear guidance for those needing to avoid gluten. If you’re brewing for yourself,…
How to Calculate ABV for Homebrew
You have a demijohn of cider bubbling away in a chilly garage in Leeds, a pale ale kit tucked under the stairs in Bristol, or a stout fermenting beside the…
Best Budget Homebrew Kits Under £50 2026
Your mate’s been going on about his homebrew for months, you fancy giving it a go, but every kit you find online is £80 or £120 or comes with so…
How to Use a Hydrometer: Measuring ABV Step-by-Step
You’ve just finished your first ever brew, the airlock has stopped bubbling, and now you’re staring at a glass tube floating in a jar of beer wondering what on earth…
How to Clear Cloudy Homemade Wine
You’ve waited six weeks for your elderflower wine to finish fermenting. You rack it off the lees into a clean demijohn, hold it up to the light, and it looks…
Best Homebrew Bottling Equipment 2026 UK
You’ve spent three weeks nursing a batch of pale ale through fermentation. The gravity readings are stable, the airlock’s gone quiet, and the beer smells fantastic. Now comes the bit…
How to Clean and Sanitise Homebrew Equipment
You have just bottled your third batch of pale ale and something tastes wrong. Not infected-wrong, but a faint plasticky tang that was not there in the first two. You…
Best Malt Extract Kits 2026 UK: Easy First Brews
You want to brew beer at home but the idea of mashing grain, calculating water chemistry, and monitoring temperatures for six hours sounds like a chemistry A-level rather than a…