Home Brew Beer – Est. 2006

This blog is going to be basically a diary of my home brew beer activities. This will hopefully help others, as well as reminding me of mistakes I have made! Check back frequently for updates.

I started homebrewing about 6 weeks ago having obtained some equipment from my uncle. The experience has therefore been relatively inexpensive.

Firstly, I brewed and barrelled a Geordie Yorkshire Bitter kit. This first beer was fermented for 7 days and then transferred to a Hambleton Bard Beer Sphere (a type of pressure barrel). The kit definitely produced beer (as opposed to something undrinkable) but it didn’t have a great deal of flavour or body. The kit has 1.5kg of liquid malt extract to which was added 1 kg of castor sugar. Having done more reading on the subject I now realise that this was not the best idea. I would rate the whole learning experience so far as a partial success, i.e. Positives: beer was the result, Negatives: it wasn’t spectacular.

I currently have a Woodforde’s Norfok Nog – Porter Style liquid malt extract kit fermenting and hope to bottle/barrel it tomorrow. This is an all extract kit (3kg) so i hope that it produces more interesting results. As i wrote previously, check back to see how i get on.