Making Smoked Malt at Home

Why would you make your own smoked malt? There are some very good smoked malt products out there – particularly of the Bamberg Smoked Malt variety from the likes of Weyermann malts – or bespoke hand smoked offerings from Malt Miller in the UK – but I wanted to see how good a product you could get in the mixing […]

A Green Hopped Munich Dunkel

I faced a couple of problems at the end of this years hop harvest: what to brew with them and how to store the hops. I had tried drying my hops last year, but this wasn’t very successful. I had read some articles and forum posts on alternative storage methods and freezing seemed to provide the solution I was after. […]

Oatmeal Stout: an experiment on fruit 3 ways.

Last year I brewed an oatmeal stout after visiting Wylam Brewery and their tap room just before they had moved production there. One of the beers available to try as part of the tour was a NZ oatmeal Pale: All Gone South. This had a massive amount of New Zealand hop aroma and flavour against the mouthfeel of the oats […]