General Brew Update: Boxshed Autumn Ale and Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

Just a quick update of various movements of beers between different buckets, kegs and bottles. It may not look much but then you didn’t have to clean the stone out of the bottles and kegs with a pipe brush and a hosepipe… The Boxshed Top Secret Autumn Ale finished secondary fermentation, dropping nice and clear. [...]

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Brewday Update: Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

Here are a couple of videos that were taken during the recent Dark Garden ’09 brewday that we’d forgotten about. We haven’t got a free video editing tool to hand (any ideas of the best option, please leave a comment and let us know) so they’re a bit rough and ready and are just raw [...]

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Brewday: Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

It’s taken a week or more to get this brewday post up on the blog. The day job may not be as much fun as either brewing or drinking beer, but it certainly consumes a lot more time and energy. What can you do, eh? This brew revisited a very successful recipe from a year [...]

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Update: Hop Harvest 2009

This year’s hop harvest may have seemed a lot of fiddly work at the time and a hot slog on a sunny September weekend, but it proved well worth it in the end. And at an average price to homebrewers of around a fiver per 100g for new crop hops this year, ‘growing yer own’ [...]

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Hop Harvest 2009!

A free September weekend following several days of dry, windy weather billowing through the Boxshed garden, seemed as good a time as any to bring in this year’s hop harvest. We finally got stuck in at lunchtime on Saturday, and were still at it on Sunday afternoon. Be warned that harvesting hops with any degree [...]

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