Update #3: Boxshed Best Bitter

This Best is now in cold conditioning in the Boxshed and looking in fine shape for some festive drinking. Here is a gallery explaining how things developed following the dry hops going in to the secondary. I’m hoping this will prove good enough to become a regular stock brew, and I’m definitely looking forward to drinking [...]

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Update #2: Boxshed Best Bitter

Checked on this today after four days in primary and it had hit its 1.012 target perfectly – nice. I transferred it into a secondary bucket, leaving all the break and yeast crud behind, and just taking nice clean brown hoppy beer looking stuff into a new home where it will now sit for about [...]

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Update: Boxshed Best Bitter

This is my first update post, but not the last. My plan is to update each Brewday at significant stages. Below you’ll see a couple of photos showing how the fermentation is progressing with the newly bucketed Boxshed Best. After this update I’ll be posting a few retrospective Brewday accounts. These will detail a single [...]

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Brewday: Boxshed Best Bitter

Last night I decided to brew a nice hoppy Best Bitter which had a chance of becoming a stock ale, all being well. I decided to go with all Goldings, as I had always fancied the idea of using a big chunk of them at both ends of the brewday with a handful during the [...]

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