Archive for the ‘Craft Brewing’ Category

New Brewery for Oxford

A new craft micro brewery called the Shotover Brewing Company is due to
open soon in converted stables in Horspath just outside Oxford. The
owner and head brewer Ed Murray has been craft brewing for over twenty years
and has made the decision to turn his interest into a commercial venture.
It is anticipated that beer will be [...]

October 9, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Breweries, Craft Brewing, abingdon, beer, beer festivals  No Comments

A New Abingdon Brewery?

Abingdon may get its very own micro brewery soon. Since the Morland brewery was bought by Greene King in 1999 and subsequently closed down and converted into flats, Abingdon has been without a commercial brewery.
Loose Cannon Brewery have applied for planning permission on the Ashville Trading Estate 6 Suffolk Way, Abingdon, OX14 5JX [...]

July 7, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Breweries, Craft Brewing, abingdon, beer  One Comment

Hop Harvesting, European Beer Festival

I have just made a blog post on the Oxford Brewer’s Group blog about hop harvesting
Also, at the weekend I was in Copenhagen visiting the European Beer Festival. This was an amazing event with lots of interesting things. Expect some blog entries from me about this over the next few days.
And thirdly… [...]

September 15, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Craft Brewing, hops, pubs  No Comments

Cider Making – Strange gravity

I am making some cider at the moment. I have approximately 10 gallons (50 litres) brewing away. The juice was part of a bulk order from the nearby Millets farm which was split amongst members of our Oxford Brewing Group.
There is no recipe to speak of… basically I made some dried wine [...]

October 7, 2007   Posted in: Alcohol, Craft Brewing, beer recipe, brew log  No Comments

Experimental Double Batch Brew

After reading an article in the Craft Brewing Association’s magazine Brewer’s Contact which indicated that beer that is sparged too much may have some off tastes, I decided to try a bit of an experiment.
The plan was to collect two seperate runnings from the sparge, dilute the first runnings to match the second, and then [...]

June 1, 2007   Posted in: Craft Brewing, beer recipe, brew log  One Comment

Wild Hop Beer

In January 2007 I brewed a beer using the wild hops I had harvested in the autumn. it was intended to be a basic bitter/ESB so that I could evaluate the character of the wild hops. To complicate things, this was the first brew I did since we had our kitchen redone, [...]

June 1, 2007   Posted in: Craft Brewing, beer recipe, brew log  No Comments

Wild Hops

Last autumn I harvested some wild hops that I found growing locally to use when brewing my beer.
The hops were found growing along the path between South Abingdon and Sutton Courtney. Here is a link to a google map somewhere near where I found them. They were picked on 27th September 2006 [...]

June 1, 2007   Posted in: Craft Brewing, brew log  No Comments

Oxford Brewing Group – Taste and Swap day

The Oxford Brewing group is holding a Taste & Swap day at Kennington Village Hall on 2nd June 2007. An invitation is open to any craft brewers who can make it to Oxford that day.

April 26, 2007   Posted in: Craft Brewing  No Comments