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Some thirty years ago I lived close to a guy who grew up in Kent, and who had a hop plant which he had brought ‘up North’ when he moved up. He grew it over the top of his greenhouse to provide shade in the height of summer and to bring some hops into the house for the smell, to remind him of...

I recently had the good fortune to drink in The Bridge, a Kirkstall Brewery pub in Kirkstall, Leeds, and was lucky enough to try their brown ale 'Biscuit Brown'. Very nice. I wanted to try to emulate it, or at least give a nod to it by brewing a brown ale of my own with that biscuity flavour...

I use a hop spider. I know that people say that they reduce hop utilisation. I haven't, subjectively, found that to be the case, but I haven't brewed that many beers using my current Brewzilla setup, and possibly it's the way a hop spider is used, rather than whether it's used at all that...

Has anyone used one of these? The write up seems to indicate that these are for brews pressurised with nitrogen, but that they 'allow the nitrogen gas to flow smoothly through the faucet'. Does that mean that they aren't for brews pressurised with CO2?

Hello, I'm a new member. I used to brew, years ago, when I lived in NZ for a while. Always an all grain brewer, cut my teeth on Dave Line's Big Book of Brewing and Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy. Gave up when I returned to the UK. I've picked it up again now I'm retired and have the...