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RAB Sabro Club Competiton
Earlier this year Sam managed to secure 5 kg of fresh 2019 Sabro hops and we decided this was a great opportunity to set a challenge to brew a beer that showcases the unique characteristics of this exciting hop as our first ever club competition. Fast forward to our March meetup and it was time…
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RAB Trip to Bristol
On the 17th of August RAB and BrewDog Reading’s Bottle Club joined forces for a tour of Bristol’s beery delights, including Moor, Good Chemistry, BrewDog Bristol, the new Left Handed Giant brewpub, Small Bar and the many other bars that King St. has to offer. We also worked out the maximum number of homebrewers that can fit in…
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Spruce Beer Part 3: Monthly Meetup & Tasting Spruce Beer
Originally we had planned for JD to come to July’s meeting to launch both the of the beers but spruce beer, like any other beer, is only ready when it’s ready and the DIPA needed a little extra time to ferment out. So instead it was August before we welcome JD and fellow Wild Weather…
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Spruce Beer Part 2: Brewing With Spruce Tips
With the single largest haul of spruce tips ever collected by 6 amateur brewers in a single afternoon (probably – don’t expect me to fact check such claims), JD and the rest of the Wild Weather gang got to work and brewed up a storm while we went back to our day jobs. The end…
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Spruce Beer Part 1: Spruce Picking
When we first approached JD about coming to speak at a RAB meeting early this year we originally discussed him coming in to talk about specialty malts and designing malt bills. JD had mentioned his passion for spruce beer, something that has since become very apparent to us, but as it was out of season…
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Brewday at Elusive Brewing
On the 2nd of June Alan, Daren and Jerry headed to Finchampstead to brew our Brew Con Community Brew Entry with the nicest man in beer – Andy Parker of Elusive Brewing. Given Andy well publicised love of black IPAs and the fact that several other clubs were brewing various IPAs, this seemed the obvious…
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Monthly Meetup – By The Mashtun
On the 9th of May, we were fortunate enough to have Cal Noble and Mike Harrison-Wood join us from By the Mashtun. For those that don’t know, By the Mashtun is a fortnightly podcast “by a couple of guys who like to make some beer, talk about beer, and drink some beer”. You can find…
