This month Ken Bazley will be hosting a short talk and associated tasting of our yeast trial experiment. A number of members have brewed the same basic recipe (below) on their own systems, substituting in a yeast of choice. A mixture of…
David Hobson will be discussing LAB’s web presence and Geoff Cooper will be leading us through a sensory analysis session where we will be identifying flavours and flavour faults. Members who won medals at the recent National Homebrew Competition will be bringing…
The CBA National Homebrewers Competition took place in Bristol on Saturday 15th September 2012. Twenty of our members entered a few beers and some entered several more than that. Bryan even entered the same beer into 4 different categories! A…
Tonight the London Amateur Brewers and Kernel will be launching their collaboration brew at the Draft House, Tower Bridge. The beer was designed by members of the London Amateur Brewers and is a Slovenian hopped Pale Ale named ABC. It uses Aurora, Bobek and…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dust off your mash tun, shake the spiders out of your fermenter, buy some fresh ingredients and get brewing because the London and South East Craft Brewing Competition and Festival date has been set for 2012. As always…
Congratulations to Dave Halse who’s beer will go forward to round 3 of the CBA Club Only Competition. It was the toughest LAB selection yet with 14 entries. After two rounds Bristol Craft Brewers and London Amateur Brewers are neck and…
We chose the finalist for the 2012 CBA Club Competition in the IPA category. There were a total of 12 entries into the category, 2 in the English IPA sub-category, 9 in the IPA category, and 1 Double or Imperial…
This month Phill will be talking about Single cell yeast culturing and we will be selecting our IPA entry for the CBA Club Competition. For meeting details see the side bar ->
In line with LAB tradition the August meeting will be held at GBBF on the Wednesday night (8th). For tickets please visit (£6 Camra members / £8 non member) We will meet around the bottled beer stand as usual, from 3pm…
This month Nick Addington will be presenting a talk entitled “Does it really matter? Great brewing controversies” which is sure to bring up some interesting debates! Once again we will be at the Draft House: Monday 2nd July, 6pm for 6.30pm…