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I thought I should invent a name for my brewing exploits. I struggled for a bit to think of a name and eventually came up with (drum-roll…):

“The Beorhthelm Brewery”

It’s a strange name, but where we live (Brighthampton) may have its roots from the Anglo Saxon name “Beorhthelm” (or “Beorthelm” or “Brithelm”) and the word “tun” meaning settlement. Over the ages, this has contracted (probably) from “Beorthelm’s-tun” to “Brighthampton”. There have been several Anglo-Saxon discoveries in the area which are kept at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

All I need to do now is come up with a nice design for a brewery logo…

New category of posting here - and the category is “homebrew”!

I’ve made beer before a few times from kits, but wanted to get properly into making my own beer from scratch using malt and hops. It’s actually not as hard as you would maybe think (at least in theory) - the basic process is as follows:

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