Hayesenbrau 2021
Last night we finally got to hold our annual Hayesenbrau competition where we had 19 different examples of Porter. 🍻 Congratulations to Lee Immins for winning the with the best beer of the evening! It was a brilliant way to…
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…
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.
Eleven Plus Competition Results
Here’s the results presentation from our latest mini-comp that Lee Immins gave over the weekend. Thanks to all who took part, and massive congratulations to all the winners! 🙂
LAB X Howling Hops Tasting Evening
We’ve teamed up with Howling Hops to host an eveing of beer and chatter over Zoom on the 31st March, 2021. If you’d like to join us register for the event on eventbrite and order your beers – we’ll then…
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.