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 Read more »
Category Archives: Craft Brewing
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 Read more »
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 Read more »
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 Read more »
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 Read more »
