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: Boxshed Dark Garden

On tap now and slipping down like a dream. I intended to wait until around Bonfire Night before cracking this one open, but a couple of friends came over for Sunday lunch and so it was the right time to give it a go. Because it’s a new style to me, achieved what I wanted [...]

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Brewday: Boxshed Dark Garden

The plan for this brew was to produce a mild with all of the characteristics of a complex porter. My favourite commercial dark beer is probably Darkstar Over The Moon, and so I wanted to brew something with the same layered malt texture and hoppy profile. I realised this wouldn’t strictly result in a Mild, [...]

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