Introduction to Beer Brewer's Blog.

When I was 15 my best friend Peter and I came up with a rather creative way to get hold of large quantities of highly potent alcohol. Whilst others boys our age begged customers outside corner shops to buy them there first taste of illicit booze me and Peter decided to make our own!

And so started a lifelong love of home brew. Its not very cool I grant you, but it is fun and it does work! When we first started out on our brewing odyssey we made fruit wines. They were cheap, as most of the ingredients could be found growing within a mile radius of the house! They also tasted good; at least they did to our untrained taste buds.

Some years after we had stopped making fruit wines and the demijohns had been left to collect dust in the attic, I came across a book called “Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy” by Dave Line. It was indeed an intriguing title. I bought some basic beer brewing equipment and resurrected some of the old wine making gear and set about cooking up a batch of Fullers E.S.B. The result was a rather tasty treat! I must confess it didn’t taste that close to the beer it was designed to imitate but none the less the 5 gallons of frothy ale went down a without any fuss.

Since then I have made a few more batches of beers using Dave Lines recipes and I have had varying results! (The Stella Artois I made was something of an acquired taste) But I have decided it is time to take the next step and start creating my own beers from my own recipes. And this is where the blog comes in very useful, as I will use it to record the processes and the results of my experiments! And if anyone actually decides to read this maybe they will be able to use the blog to make their own beer too.