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I’m sorry, please don’t take my words out of context. You know full well I was talking about beer. And Yvan doesn’t supply the whole of the UK with beer. So what JGB do, I don’t think phildo bought his beer via JGB, is a moot point. Certainly not a magic solution....but a step in the right...

You just sound disgruntled. Firstly, the brewer isn’t charging £8. Secondly there is no cold chain in the UK. So once beer leaves a brewery it’s not put back in a fridge until it hits the consumers. Hop oils are extremely volatile. So flavours change rapidly. The reason beer became quite...

I challenge you to make the same beer everyday and make all of the batches taste the same.

Hi all So finally decided to get back in to Home brewing after a 10 year hiatus. I originally started back in 2007, ended up working in a brewery, was head brewer at Tap East and Laines if anyone knows them and then became a hop merchant at simply hops. Left there this year, still in the...

Well I can assure you that it’s not. And Heineken have very little to do with the actual brewery on a day to day basis. Logan is 100% hands on at the brewery and neither him nor Nikola would ever want to sacrifice quality. That’s just not what they are about.

FWIW, it’s not easy to scale production and still make the same beer. It’s not easy to be consistent in any regard. Sure you can spec same water and time but hops will change batch to batch, year to year. Do you dose that dry hop to Oil content or to weight? Ok let’s do it to oil, well is the...

Sabro is the daughter of HBC 472 (use that in your imp stouts if you ever find any). You’ll find grapefruit, pith, vanilla, cedar, pine in there. Stands up on its own but works best as a blend with similar US hops and Aussie varieties. Bread by the Hop Breeding Company, a joint venture between...