October Meeting – Monday 1st

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…

LAB Strikes At The National!

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…

LAB And Kernel Colab Launch Night

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…

CBA Club Of The Year – IPA

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…

September 2012 – Meeting Notes

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…

September Meeting – Monday 3rd

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 ->

August Meeting – GBBF Wednesday 8th

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…

July Meeting – Monday 2nd

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…