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It's looking like the 2025 English hops crop has been significantly affected by the weather, with crops of some varieties down by around 50%, apparently? Can't be great being a hops farmer these days, especially in England with imported hops taking up more and more of the demand. Are they...

Good home brew forum sharers are worth their weight in gold! I'm spasmodic on here but have appreciated your contributions. I understand your decision, I've been closed to doing the same but my love of beer just runs too deep. I manage my intake most of the time so that I don't get too much...

That's a fantastic post, thank you! Shame that Beer Nouveau went out of business. Great quotes from him and Andy Leman. Five Points bitter must benefit from that Fuggle saturation thing. Fullers uses Target late in one of its beers. Bengal Lancer I think. Dry hop possibly.

I'm English, in England. Full declaration! English hops are used a fair bit in Belgian beers, I believe, and they grow some English hops breeds in Belgium. I buy and use Pilgrim hops regularly. They are cheap and I really like them in all English styles. Would work for Belgian styles too, I'm...

Yes, a very simple recipe. Low OG, high ibu, not for everyone. Not my beer of course. 23 litres 1038 1002 4.7% 40 ibu (I know!) 3300g Golden Promise 100g Crisp dark crystal 20g Magnum @ 60 20g Willamette @:0 BE-134

Thanks, and sure, we all have different tastes. I liked the 134 beer more, I like the sharpness and dryness. That's a saison, for me. Well, my kind of saison.

Another home brewer recently sent me two beers from the same wort, one fermented with Farmhouse and one with BE-134. The 134 beer was the clear winner for me, a yeast I've never used. I preferred it's dryness and acidity, it was almost lemony. The Farmhouse beer was fine but lacking sharpness...

Yankee Bitter. The clue's in the name. 😉

Well done. 😉 Both.

Although they have approved cask breathers obviously.

If bottle conditioned beer classes as real ale due to its natural carbonation, then naturally conditioned keg beer should also qualify as real ale, surely? 🤔 I just think the word 'keg' had satanic overtones for Camra, for a very long time, and possibly still has for some of them.

1. English Bitter 2. English Porter/Stout 3. Belgian Saison That's my top three. I class Golden ale as bitter, because I was drinking golden ales before they were called golden ales, in the form of low colour bitters. I make and enjoy many other styles including and especially APAs...

He just hates them. I just pointed out a lot of people like them. He is an excellent brewer though, I drink a lot of his stuff!

Cloudwater became big news very quickly with James Campbell as head brewer, he only stayed a couple of years and their profile has dropped somewhat since. It is primarily an American style craft brewer, of course. Marble is much more cask focussed. I am much more a Marble drinker. James Kemp...

When I chatted to Joe Ince the person I was with asked him why he doesn't use English hops he said "because they are terrible." I said that's a matter of opinion, because my preference is for English hops in cask ales, and things got tense! We all want cask to survive and thrive, but some of...

I wouldn't move to the US tbh.

Are you a British exile?

Clangers > The Wombles Sorry Womble!

SNPA being classed as an English ale is not style evolution, it's just wrong! Do the English get a say? 🤔😀

Yeast?