What's this all about? Read Part 1 Here It's been seven months since the last addition to this Solera, so ...
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Back by popular demand (well, a misplaced comment from one person who had been drinking). Like an Adele album this ...
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What's this all about? Read part 1 here. So far the Solera has been inoculated with commercially propagated strains of ...
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What's this all about? Read part 1 here. So, finally getting up to date with this. The initial plan and ...
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What's this all about? Read part 1 here. I write this in the beginning of May, but this dated back ...
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This is a document of my Solera project, otherwise known as the "Morph" range of beers. Solera is a process for aging liquids ...
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A question that often pops up is "How to use coffee in a brew?"  Not being a fan of coffee ...
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Here is a handy Malt Substitution Chart, handy for when you are trying to source grain for a recipe and ...
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So anyone that knows me, probably realises that I'm a bit of a geek for gadgets to brew with, I'm ...
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Everyone has been there, it comes to brew day you've got mountains of bits of grain and hops, 30 grams ...
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Home brew competition for beer and coffee lovers. bru·bi·a·ce·ae | \, brübç’ âsç, ç\ noun 1. an alchoholic drink made from yeast-fermented ...
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No, not that KITT you doofus! The homebrew kit.  What kit do we all use to make our beers? From brewer to ...
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Finally we have all the designs available at >>>>> Macchomebrew Store Why are we doing this? One of the aims from the ...
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Regardless of how good you think your brewing methods are, it doesn’t mean anything if the yeast can’t work their ...
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As a brewer, despite how knowledgeable you might be on the subject, there are always something new to learn, and ...
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Breaking from the recent trend a post about Keg beer.... As a homebrewer I enjoy every aspect of brewing, it's all good ...
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I’ve always had a thing for sour beers but I had never considered brewing one as it all seemed a ...
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Written by the head honcho of Whitelabs (along with famed homebrewer Jamil Zainasheff) there was no shadow of doubt that ...
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I was totally unaware of this book’s existence until someone randomly tweeted about it. 30 seconds later I had slapped ...
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This book is getting a little long in the tooth now, but the information contained within is all still very ...
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This book is a bit of a strange one when you first set eyes on it. It’s a hardback, but ...
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This book chronicles the history of Stone Brewing, from it's humble beginnings to the mega brewery it is today, all ...
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Because I'm a bit of a cheap skate, I tend to give bottles of my beer away as gifts to ...
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Ever since reading Randy Mosher’s superbly influential Radical Brewing I had been desperately seeking another book to fill the void ...
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I bought this based on an indirect Twitter recommendation from Jay Krause of Quantum Brewing ( now brewing at Cloudwater brew Co.) ...
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For the life of me I don’t know why I haven’t picked up this book earlier, I’m absolutely kicking myself! ...
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I always associate Dorling Kindersley with kids books about dinosaurs or pond life, and initially when you flick through the pages it ...
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ShinDigger Brewing co. was my first known introduction to gypsy brewing, a set up where the brewers don't actually own a brewery, ...
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Bit of a Caveat, resurrecting an old review here but a worthwhile review all the same!! I first tried the The ...
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I've been brewing for just over a year now, and have brewed several beers (of varying quality) from all grain ...
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After a month or so of pestering Ian Morton of Maregade Brew Co. sent us through his origins. Ian was ...
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Dave Harrison-Ward ex MaccHomebewer and Owner/Brewer of  Macclesfield Brewing Company has provided an insight into his new brewery. The name Macclesfield Brewing ...
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Andy Parker owner of Elusive Brewing: Where does the Name Elusive Brewing come from? The name actually comes from my online ...
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Mark Welsby of The Runaway Brewery is the latest brewer to provide some more detail as to the origins of the brewery, ...
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Next up Steve Dunkley of Beer Nouveau, as well as being a commercial brewery brewing from the ever popular railway arches, ...
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No matter what kind of brewer you are, a compulsory part of any good brewery set up is the beanie, ...
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Now, some website content filler...... Apologies if this is a boring, self-indulgent post, but I thought I'd catalogue the brewing development ...
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A stir plate is a really useful tool to help make yeast starter, but they can be very costly. The ...
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Monday 28th November 2016 6.30pm Macclesfield SciBAR at the Park Tavern, Park Lane, Macclesfield, SK11 6UB As part of Macclesfield SciBar  (A ...
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A selection of titles from the expanding brewing library of a homebrewer. Early Learning How To Brew - John Palmer ...
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I suspect the majority of people who either follow or are followed by @macchomebrew know about the Independent Manchester Beer ...
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One of the aims from the relaunch of Macc Homebrew Club was to recruit new members and to promote homebrewing ...
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Scrolling back over some old Macc Homebrew blog posts, it was around February 2014, when Thomas Lewis, one half of ...
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You're probably all familiar with the usual suspects of off flavours in beer; cloves, banana, corn, plasters, nail polish remover, etc ...
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Over the my past 4 years brewing, I've seen tonnes of great brewery logos and interesting names, that have often ...
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So for the next 3 days we're selling some Macc Homebrew Club tshirts. Any profits made will be used to ...
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Recently Tom Lewis the founding member of Macclesfield Homebrew club, started up a new brewery and business with Josh Sharples ...
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When i started brewing beer from grain I realised pretty quickly that other than good ingredients and clean equipment (that really ...
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