Barrel aged beers are becoming more popular all the time, most breweries now having at least one example in their lineup. However historically, beers were stored in barrels out of necessity. Johnny Horn talks us through the history of storing and aging, with focus on British beer. Brewing has always been a seasonal practice. Prior to… Continue reading Brewstory: The Art of Keeping Beers – British Stock Ales
So you are an experienced beer or cider brewer, but you didn’t yet venture into wine making? The transition is easy – you already have the equipment and the know how! And actually, you can make a really excellent bottle of wine for just £3 per bottle. We get a lot of questions from brewers… Continue reading From Making Beer to Making Wine – It’s Easy!
Dried yeast has many benefits over wet yeast – especially when it comes to cost and storage. The Brewstore’s Johnny Horn talks you through these benefits and explains how to work with dried yeast. Brewers don’t make beer. Brewers make wort, and it’s the yeast that turns that wort into beer. Ensuring a sufficient… Continue reading Yeast Primer 1: Dried yeast and yeast rehydration
We do more than beer at the Brewstore and we recently released some own recipes for making small batch wine, cider, sloe gin or mead. In celebration of the launch of our new small-batch kitchen craft kits, and in celebration of the season at hand we are taking a closer look at making honey mead.… Continue reading Honey, We Shrunk the Kits – Making Mead in Small Batches
Flavour is probably the number one thing brewers chase in a beer. These are a few tricks to catch as much of the flavour from your hops as possible. If you are sitting on a recipe that is ”almost” great, but not really there yet the solution could be in this article. There are a… Continue reading 4 Hop-Tricks to Take Your Beer from Great to Mindblowing
Whole-leaf hops or pellet hops is a hot debate topic among brewers. In our opinion, pellets are better where it counts – flavour, storage capacity and easy-of-use. We get a lot of questions from all kinds of brewers about hop pellets. Most commonly this question is Do they work as well as real, whole leaf… Continue reading Pellets vs. Whole-Leaf Hops: Our input in a contentious debate
The dark, malty beers are a Christmas staple, but if you’re not the biggest fan of them or just looking for something different, here are a few suggestions from us at Brewstore! We are big supporters of “brew whatever you like” here at Brewstore and that goes for the holiday season too. There is… Continue reading Cool Christmas Beers – Don’t Keep to Conventions, Brew What you Want!
Davie and Eileen from Brewstore are members of the Calton Wine Circle who meet once a month to trade their homebrewing knowledge and of course, taste each others wines. On Sunday, the Circle where invited to tour and lunch of the Prestoungrange Gothenburg. The Gothenburg -a restored arts and crafts hub of East Lothian Music, Arts and… Continue reading Tour of Prestoungrange Gothenburg
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