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.
Tag presentation
Yeast Starters
An overview and detailed discussion about yeast starters lead by Lee Immins. This was recorded during the Feburary, 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.
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!
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!
Brewing High Gravity Beers
A presentation about brewing high gravity beers given at the February, 2020 meeting by Lee Immins.
Bitter
A presentation about the Bitter beer styles (BJCP 2015, styles 11 A/B/C) given at the January, 2020 meeting by Phill Turner. This is the video that was shown before the talk: