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All grain number three at the weekend - this time something slightly stronger and darker. I want to try Orfy’s Hobgoblin recipe (from Jim’s Beer Kit) - the Wychwood Brewery is only about 5 miles up the road from here - but I need to order some Styrians and Carapils in, so had to go for something else. Clone Brews has a version of Theakston’s Old Peculier, which is somewhat different to other recipes, and probably not dark enough to be right, but none the less, I’m hoping it’s at the least going to turn out a nice pint (and who cares if it’s not spot on if it’s nice and drinkable).

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Had All Grain brewday number two on Sat 8th March while Tash went to the ballet in Oxford, and decided to brew up the Brains “Traditional Welsh Ale” recipe from “Clone Brews“.

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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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