Beer Brewing

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…

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…

You crack open a bottle you brewed six weeks ago, pour it into a glass, take a hopeful sip — and something is wrong. It tastes like butter. Or wet…

There is a reason hefeweizen is the beer most homebrewers fall in love with. It is forgiving to make, fast to turn around, and when you get it right —…

You’ve been brewing for a while now, the last batch was probably your best yet, and someone — maybe a mate, maybe a stranger on a homebrew forum — said…

You’ve brewed a few kit beers, you’re proud of the results, and now you’re itching to go further. The internet tells you the next step is either extract brewing or…

You’ve just brewed the best pale ale of your life. It’s crisp, hoppy, perfectly balanced — and you have no idea how to replicate it. You vaguely remember the malt…

You fancy a beer on a Tuesday evening but don’t want the hangover. Or maybe you’re doing a sober month and miss the ritual of cracking open something hoppy after work. The alcohol-free section in Tesco has improved noticeably — BrewDog Punk AF, Lucky Saint — but at £1.50–2 a can, drinking them…

You’ve had one too many bland supermarket lagers, and the thought hits you — maybe I should just make my own. So you start browsing, and within ten minutes you’re…

You’ve just walked into a craft beer taproom with 20 taps and a chalkboard menu that reads like a foreign language. Saison, ESB, Schwarzbier, Doppelbock — and all you wanted…