After a break in July, what with holidays and visitors, couple of repeat tuning brews.
Gaits with a return to an earlier (#8) version and an APA although the Citra hops were a bit tired.
More May bottlings
In preparation for Christmas – here’s this years Christmas Special. Its an Ale base with a goodly hint of orange and cinnamon. Snog!. And a repeat Slack Alice.
May Bottlings
After a really moderate Beckstones with Saaz hops, its a return to the Golding hop for a summer bitter. Touch of Citra to lift the flavours. Spate to the ‘usual’ recepie
April Bottlings
A rerun of Alice, sticking to the same formula, minor variations. English IPA to a variation.
On Antigua
Took in a few beers and cocktails
and Guiness Bar in St Johns
Beer Tasting at the Darts
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Well, not quite. However, James bought me a Beer Hawk box of mixed beers, so we had an evening of trying them all while watching the Premier League Darts.
February Bottlings
A further batch of Mild, this time with Pale Malt and slightly higher bitterness (A mistake!)
American IPA with Citra and Cascade, dry hopped – great example of its type
January Brewings
So a new year and further refinement of the core brews
Classic Goldings based bitter, Spate with Fuggles and EK Goldings and Gaits with Progress featuring early and late.
Bike Rides
Here’s a few snaps from recent bike trips. Given we go out practically every week, sometimes twice, its poor that we have so few pictures.
Anyway here’s when we dropped in at the Bombay Sapphire Factory Bar 
and here’s our monster Christmas Eve ride drop in at the Northbrook arms
Winter brewing
Latest efforts in early October included a Spate and then Beckstones Bitter with Saaz Hops.Seduced by a promise of floral notes, this lager hop produced a brew that’s just not right – equivalent to a tea and coffee mix.
and so to later in the month with a Mild with the Chocolate backed off slightly, an Alice brewed with Amarillo hops, and then dry hopped. Finally a Gaits Ale brewed to type.
December and a ‘classic’ IPA as well as another Wynd Cascade based IPA. Final brew of the year a repeat Slack Alice into barrels for Ben Usher.
