Brewing Hoppy Beers
This month (July 2021), Fraser Withers gave us an awesome overview of how he goes about brewing his award winning hoppy beers. If you want to brew a hoppy beer anywhere near as good as Frasers, this is a must…
Category Videos
Under Pressure: Getting into Pressure Fermenting
This month (June, 2021), Steve Smith gave us an introduction to pressurised fermentation. It was a great talk and kicked off over AN HOUR of questions and conversations afterwards so it’s definitely worth a watch! Here’s the video and slides…
Exploration of Step Mashing: What, Why and Recommendations
This month (May, 2021) Serge Savin gave us a deep dive into step mashing. This is an excellent overview of how varying the temperature of your mash can have an impact on the finished beer.
Co-fermentation – Getting the Best out of Using Two Strains of Yeast Together
This month (April, 2021) we were joined by Andrew Paterson (@lallemandy1 on Twitter) from Lallemand to talk to us about co-fermentation – how to use two yeasts together effectivley your brewing. And here’s the talk on yeast nutrition that’s mentioned…
Bottling from Keg with a Beer Gun
In this short video, Rob Gallagher (@Cuichulain) gives us an overview of how he fills bottles from a keg using a beer gun.
Q&A with The Malt Miller
For our March (2021) meeting, Rob and Rakey from The Malt Miller joined us to answer some of our members questions and tell us more about the history of The Malt Miller.
Yeast Starters
An overview and detailed discussion about yeast starters lead by Lee Immins. This was recorded during the Feburary, 2021 LAB meeting.
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.
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.