Shed.TV – Iam a home brewer
Posted on July 20th, 2009
ok not all home brewers do it in sheds, but some do, this great video about Americans who want to get quality beer into their lives.
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ok not all home brewers do it in sheds, but some do, this great video about Americans who want to get quality beer into their lives.
To celebrate St George’s Day, Drink of England, Wells Bombardier is undertaking a nationwide hunt for the Champion of England.
And to celebrate readersheds.co.uk inclusion on the list of champions, our patriotic friends at Bombardier have given us four cases of the lovely Wells Bombardier to give away. So we are going to split it up so that two lucky sheddies can win two cases each!
Bombardier is the most English of beers – brewed right in the heart of England with accredited natural mineral water from the brewery’s very own well. It is available across England in good cask ale pubs, or it is available in bottles and cans at supermarkets and off licenses.
Hopefully I will be posting more again about my 2nd favorite pastime – drinking real ale….
Weatherpersons (love them or hate them) have got a good range of Welsh beers on at the moment ready for our Patrons saints day on Sunday.
out of my patriotic nature, I have sampled a few..
As usual the Bullmastiff boys (Bob & Paul) pull out the stops and have produced a great drinking session beer
but Conwy brewery have a great one with their Honeyed brew…. shame I had to get back to work.
Golden ale with honey aromas rounded off by a dry bitter finish. ABV 4.5%. Welsh honey sourced from Newquay Honey Farm, www.thehoneyfarm.co.uk
Lovely beer bit a bit strong for lunchtime, from tudor Brewery
If you like beer and would like to add your photos, then join my Beer of the Week group.
BBC up north east, reports (around 20 mins in)
Emma Milne sets out on a pub crawl with a difference – this time round the breweries set up in sheds in back gardens in Darlington
We mentioned the beer sheddies before but its great to see them in action.
They have their own Beer of the year award and competition is held in one of their sheds.
John is one of the sheddies and you can read his beer blog here
Some great sheds and looks like wonderful beer, we would love to see some of them on readersheds for Shed of the year.
A great little story from the Journal in N’castle
Image from dtbg.co.uk
The equation couldn’t be simpler. While men and sheds have always been an irresistible combination, inserting brewing enthusiasm into the formula results in Paradise.
John Winterburn, John Anderson, Pete Fenwick, Ian Jackson, Trevor Danes, John Penman and another half-dozen ale stalwarts scattered from Hartlepool to Gainford in County Durham meet up every three weeks – in a shed – to sample one another’s latest efforts and talk about mashing, boiling, fermenting and conditioning.
With doors closed, pints poured and spiders on guard, it’s boys’ talk that oft-times wanders along the lines of tongue-and-groove, felt roofs and dovetail joints, but invariably returns to beer.
Darlington Traditional Brewing Group was formed in 2002 after long-time home-brewer John Winterburn was invited by the Workers Education Association to run a course on full-mash brewing in his local community centre. The original scheme has run its course but the 12 remaining members continue to brew in back yards, kitchens and garages – and every one of them has his own shed-based pub to reflect in and mull over what grown men reflect in and mull over.
“We all have our own recipes,” says lollipop man John Winterburn. “We take it in turns to host meetings where there’s a bit of a spread and always a new beer to try. People ask all the time if they can join, but we’ve got no more room at the moment because only so many people can fit into a shed.
“We can brew 10 gallons of beer for £5 or £6 by buying ingredients in bulk. It’s not just about cost, it’s about quality. We can make beer just like you’d buy in a pub. The only thing we can’t do is lager – Darlington water doesn’t have enough carbonates in it – but one member tried it by buying five gallons of spring water from Morrison’s and made a brilliant pilsner.”
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