18th Jul 2025
Ale Over The Place
By Greig McGill A grab-bag of thoughts and ideas regarding the great hobby of home brewing. I’ve been thinking about a bunch of things lately, all kinda-sorta connected, but mostly just that the…
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17th Jun 2025
Make America Something Something... Beer?
By Greig McGill OK, so it’s an awkward time to be championing the USA right now. Like it or not though, the USA has had the most influence on the beer culture we immerse ourselves in as brewers.…
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22nd May 2025
Juice Bombs: Hazy IPA Tips
By Gladfield Malt We all know by now what a good Hazy IPA taste and looks like. For us, a New England IPA (NEIPA) is basically an American IPA that features an intense, distinctly “tropical frui…
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30th Apr 2025
A Lagery Use-Case for Crystal Wheat Malt
By Greig McGill Courtesy of Gladfield Malt When Gladfield approached me to try using Gladfields’ new CrystalWheat malt, I was intrigued by the possibilities. Crystal malts seem to have been some…
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10th Apr 2025
English IPA is Redundant!
By Greig McGill Before craft beer, before the Americans turned everything up to 11, and before most of us had a hobby that many would call liver abuse, there was the India Pale Ale, and it came f…
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27th Mar 2025
Brew Building From Scratch
Want to start building your own brews from scratch rather than using someone else's recipe? Then here's a little insight on how to give this a go, but take note, it can be a long and slow process. &nb…
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5th Mar 2025
Shouting Lager, Lager, Lager, Lager!
By Greig McGill Ah, Born Slippy. Thanks to Underworld and the placement of their song Born Slippy in the soundtrack to the huge culture-defining film Trainspotting, lots of people started shouting abo…
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17th Feb 2025
Bold Beers to Brew Beyond Hazys & Light Lagers
Here at Brewshop we have the honour of sending out loads of your beer recipes every week. From full sacks of malt, to many crushed grain bills, hops and yeast. In the process we get to see what's tren…
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10th Dec 2024
Grain Expectations - Part Two
By Greig McGill If base malts ( discussed in part one here) are the solid foundation of brewing, specialty malts are the creative spark that transforms beer from basic to extraordinary. While I am…
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19th Nov 2024
Grain Expectations - Part One
By Greig McGill You’ve probably heard it said that malt is the soul of a beer. Hops might get all the glory, but without malted barley, beer wouldn’t be beer. It provides sweetness to balance the ho…
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31st Oct 2024
A Deeper Look At The Pomona Modern IPA Yeast
LalBrew Pomona™ is a hybrid yeast that was selected for flavour and fermentation performance in hoppy beers. Named after the goddess of fruit trees, LalBrew Pomona™ produces a unique an…
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19th Aug 2024
It Tastes So Cold!
By Greig McGill Back in the mists of time, a long-running and fun podcast called Craft Beer Radio (now CBR and a lot more casual) wrote a parody sketch (warning, some humour hasn’t aged well, but…
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