Yeast Starters
An overview and detailed discussion about yeast starters lead by Lee Immins. This was recorded during the Feburary, 2021 LAB meeting.
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What’s It like to Work for a Commercial Brewery?
A goal of many an aspiring home brewer – to make your hobby into your job! So what’s it really like to work for a commercial brewery? This presentation was given by Paul Spearman at the January, 2021 LAB meeting.
PicoBrew Intro & Discussion
Here’s the slides and video from this month’s (December 2020) LAB meeting – an introduction to, and discussion around the PicoBrew home brewing system lead by Ian Cosier.
Culturing From a Single Cell
This month Phill Turner gave us an in-depth guide to culturing yeast from bottle dregs for use in your homebrew.
Sugar Chemistry in Beer (and Candi Sugar)
This month Jacques Marais gave us a very detailed talk on what happens with sugar in beer, and also how we can make our own candi sugar at home.
Raw Ales
At last months meeting Peter Gale gave us a brief introduction to Raw Ales.
Building a Steam Condenser
At last months meeting Tom Greasley (@schlafsack) gave us a great talk on how he built a steam condenser for his homebrew kit.
Adventures in Kegging
James Wilson (@JockyUp) gave us a fantastic talk on many aspects of kegging at our last meeting. Here’s the video and slides!
Whirlpooling Q&A
One of our members had a question or two about whirlpooling at the last meeting. The discussion was good so we decided to post the video up on YouTube!
Brewing with RO Water
Here’s the recording and the slides of the talk from last nights meeting. As a bonus, we were also treated to a tour round Ian Cosier’s basement brewery!