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 Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2007
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 Read more »
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 Read more »
