What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Timothy Taylor & Co. Ltd, named after our founder Timothy Taylor himself in 1858. What is your brewery capacity? That’s a hard one to answer really as all breweries can be manipulated to achieve volumes out with your plants normal capabilities. Even micros these […]
View PostMeet The Brewer: Natural Selection Brewing
What is your name? Campbell Morrissy (American), David Ross (Scottish), Patrick Howell (Canadian), and Bruce Smith (Scottish). We are all Brewing & Distilling MSc students at Heriot-Watt University. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Natural Selection Brewing. I don’t quite know the origin, I guess it just evolved. (I love […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, kegged beer, Meet The Brewer, scottish beerHomebrew – AG#4 Flying Lotus Hidden Jasmine
I hadn’t really planned to start experimenting with flavours until I’d cracked a good solid pale ale but I decided I was pretty pleased with AG#3 Rudi Good and had a yearning to make a beer with Jasmine and Green Tea in it after running out of the delicious Outlaw Mad Hatter. This required a […]
View Post home brew, home brew beer, homebrew, homebrewing, IPA, jasmineHarbour Light Ale (3.7%)
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know just how much shouted about this beer a couple of weeks ago when I was down in Cornwall, those of you who know me know that I’m not easily pleased when it comes to beers and that I don’t often drink more than one of the […]
View Post cornish ale, cornish beer, hoppy beer, light ale, low abvHomebrew – AG#3 Rudi Good
I’m finishing writing this while AG#4 cools which may be a bit alte but I’ve been so busy and really not had the motivation to blog. Ag#3 was an attempt to improve on my last two pale ales and uses some Dr Rudi hops which I liberated from Truefitt brewery when I helped brew the […]
View Post home brew, home brew beer, home brewing, homebrew, homebrewing, IPA, pale aleBruges – A quick run down
Over the last few weeks I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked which pubs and bars we visited while we visited Bruges just before Christmas so to save me having to email/text/Facebook it every time I thought I’d put a quick run down on here, It’s by no means the definitive […]
View Post Belgian Beer, belgian beers, Belgium, Bruges, BruggeHomebrew – AG#2 Hop for the Best
Homebrew AG#2 was brewed what seems like ages ago and has since been supped and shared, I’ve even brewed AG#3 which has been bottled and is currently conditioning somewhere warm. AG#2 was another pale ale for which I was aiming for 6% ABV and planned to use hops from New Zealand, as with AG#1 it […]
View Post home brew, home brewing, homebrew, IPA, NZ, pale aleSalopian Brewery Vertigo (7.2% ABV)
Salopian brewery make one of my favourite beers in Darwin’s Origin so when they got in touch and asked if I fancied trying their 7.2% Vertigo there was no way I was going to decline. I didn’t know much about the beer so was a bit surprised when it poured as dark as it did […]
View Post black ipa, bottled beer, IPA, Strong beerGateshead Beer Festival 3-5th May 2013
Gateshead beer festival is ran over the May Day Bank holiday weekend (3rd to the 5th of May this year), They have about 60 pumps on at any one time and over the space of the weekend they should have about 140 different beers available. They are supporting local brewer and breweries from across the […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, northern beer