Update #2: Thinking Bitter

After a week in secondary dropping clear, the Thinking Bitter is now sitting in my oldest Cornie and a half dozen 660ml Fischer swingtops. These were donated by my friend Mark, who picked them up in France and kindly drank all of the lager somebody had left in them! This little lot will sit around [...]

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Update: Thinking Bitter / Landlubber

A quick update on the progress of our latest two brews and some idea of what’s up next. Thinking Bitter is so easy going and pleasant it tastes perfectly fine right out of the secondary fermenter. It’s finished, essentially, and is just sitting there dropping clear and waiting for me to get my finger out [...]

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Brewday: Thinking Bitter 26/2/09

The main point of this brewday was just to get us thinking about brewing again, hence the name. It was a good opportunity to make a fresh session bitter while clearing out The Boxshed, cleaning all my vessels, and taking stock of, well, stocks. We wanted to create an easy drinking bitter with a hoppy [...]

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Recipe: Thinking Bitter

Righto, well I’m devising a vague plan in my head to brew a pleasantly hoppy session beer that uses up some remnants of grain in an interesting bill, while making the most of some nice homegrown hop reserves I have in the freezer. My yeast options are limited, and this is a very lightweight mash [...]

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