Recipes

It’s a Wednesday evening in January, you’ve got a free weekend coming up, and you want to brew something. But what? The answer depends more on the calendar than you…

You crack open a can from your local craft brewery — the liquid pours thick, golden-orange, and opaque like mango juice. The aroma hits you before you even take a…

It’s autumn, the local farm shop has bags of mixed apples for a pound, and you’ve just remembered that cider exists. Not the mass-produced fizzy stuff from Tesco — proper…

You’ve brewed a few kit beers, maybe a pale ale from a tin of Coopers extract, and they turned out drinkable — possibly even good. But now you want to…

You’ve brewed a pale ale, you’ve tasted the satisfaction of pouring something you made yourself, and now you want something that tastes like the beer you grew up drinking —…

Your first homebrew kit beer was fine — drinkable, even. But it tasted like every other kit beer: vaguely malty, slightly biscuity, with the personality of a waiting room. Now…

There’s a hedgerow about ten minutes from my house that drips with elderflower every June. For years I walked past it thinking “someone should do something with that.” Then one…