Manchester Homebrew

2018 was a good year for the Manchester Homebrew Group and for the wider community. The groups members continues to grow and we continue to widen our knowledge. But most importantly we have welcomed all, shared knowledge, widened the horizons and helped each other in a social setting amongst friends.

Once again this years Manchester Beer Week sees the return of the Manchester Homebrew Expo now in its third year. This event is a showcase of the best beer brewed by amateur brewers from across Manchester and the North West. The brewers will continue to dispel the myth that homebrewed

Today we have a guest blog post from Steve Hill about how a beer in a French town called Morzine turned into all grain brewing and the purchase of a new Bulldog Brewer system. Morzine Earlier this year I travelled to a beautiful town, high in the French Alps, called

During our Feb 2018 meetup Pen and Mike shared their five way split experiment which was to try different yeasts in a (semi-)controlled environment. We particularly enjoyed the blind tasting challenge. Thanks for sharing. Here's a copy of the details supplied on the day. Base beer Simply Pale Ale

This month saw us sample the 'Will It Brew?' beers, a number of freebies, confirmation of a mid-week meetup and overall a great turnout of people and beers. Will It Brew We can all honestly say that the will it brew challenge was a success which produced some very

Its been far too long since we last wrote anything about our regular meetups. As August tends to be a quite month due to people's holidays I thought the write up would be short and sweet. Instead we had a reasonable turnout, new faces, lots of beers in attendance and

Lazaretto IPA brewed by Simon won the Manchester Homebrew Expo 'Best In Show' competition as voted by the public. He's kindly shared some of his thoughts and experiences about the event and his win. In Simons's own words: The Homebrew Expo I thought the Manchester Homebrew Expo was a fantastic

Cosmetically Challenged brewed by Tom won the Manchester Homebrew Expo 'A Beer For Manchester' competition. He's kindly shared some of his thoughts and experiences refining the recipe. In Tom's own words: First off thanks for all the organisation, Steve for giving his time and giving the brewery over and the

As part of his Macbeth Tour, beer historian will be coming to Manchester on Sunday April 2nd to talk to homebrewers, brewers and beer enthusiasts about the misconceptions surrounding Scottish beer. Hosted at Beer Nouveau in conjunction with Manchester Homebrew and Chorlton Brewers groups, Ron will be tasting some samples

There comes a time when a homebrewer decides that simply making beer isn't enough and your thoughts turn onto how you serve your wares. Building your own kegerator is a very personal thing. Here we will explore the kegerator I have built for myself but remember its your kegerator so

This month we were at @CafeBeermoth and we had a couple of new members join us. I must say its been positive to see so many new members over the past few months. After sampling our homebrew we again cracked open some of the finest bottles @CafeBeermoth have to offer.

Manchester Homebrew Expo Manchester Homebrew Expo is coming on Sunday 19th June as part of Manchester Beer Week. Homebrewers from across the region are being invited to serve their wares direct to the public to dispel the myth that homebrew is cheap and nasty boring brown bitter, but is instead

This month we were at @CafeBeermoth. Thanks for having us. We talked mostly about our beers obviously; upcoming events and meetup ideas so we should have quite a summer lined up. There was quite a lot discussed before we started to crack open the large bottles @CafeBeermoth have available so

At our last meetup Ollie joined us from @Carbon_Smith to discuss his business plan, crowd funding, brewtap and the brewspace. As promised he has kindly shared some of the details with us. For those that don't know much about Carbon Smith they became the UK’s first fully licensed

This month we were back in the basement at @TheBeermoth. In a nice turn of events the collaboration beer 'Upstairs Downstairs' we brewed with @Torrside was upstairs whilst we were in fact downstairs. Welcome Aron and Stuart We welcomed a couple of new people to the group this month. Aron

There are few rivalries as fierce as Manchester v Liverpool and there is no exception when it comes to beer. We will be going head to head on 5 styles, these being: IPA (any sort, above 5%) Mild Bitter Stout/Porter Experimental/Alternative/Other The plan is to meet at

First meet at our new venue @CafeBeermoth and its safe to say we enjoyed the good beers on tap after we worked our way through the homebrew. Welcome Jon We welcomed Jon (no twitter handle) who attended the meet for the first time. He's been brewing kits for sometime but

New Venue We have had a quick discussion with members and it has been decided that we will move our meetup to Cafe Beermoth. We've loved being at @thebeermoth bottle shop but feel that the new @CafeBeermoth is a better venue and will help new members to find us. For