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dark beers and also drinks his beers warmer which makes the flavours much more prominent especially with the smokier toastier beers the name by the horns is something alex thought up and it sums up the attitude of 2 twenty somethings stepping out of a comfortable 9 to 5 career progression to do something they are more passionate about before they were brewers chris worked in offshore purchasing and alex worked in oil and the experience in negotiating and buying selling is serving them well as brewers the journey from the idea to where they are now wasn t as smooth as they had envisaged some aspects were easier than they thought some were harder and some they had never even considered supplying the beer to the pubs works quite differently to how they initially thought it s rare for a small brewery to get a contract with a certain pub or chain of pubs instead they get requests from new pubs every week but not neccessarily regular repeat orders then you have the logistics of transporting beer across london sometimes with only certain delivery windows to hit and when the pubs do get the casks they often don t put it on for weeks or even months all of this was a bit of an eye opener but neither of them regret the change of career chris did say however that they would have second throughts about starting a brewery in london now with the huge number of breweries that have been founded even in the last year and although there is an element of competition with the other brewers there is also a spirit of collaboration and shared knowledge that binds them all together take the annual collaborative brews organised by the london brewers alliance most recently a stout brewed at the kernel chris just hopes that all the new brewers maintain the high standard and reputation that has already been set in london by the established breweries they have brewery open days about once a month with the christmas one on saturday 15th december starting at 12pm you can read about the two previous open days here and here i recommend you come down if you can have a drink in the brewery see the mash tun and fermenting vessels and meet the brewers i am very much looking forward to warming myself on a few pints of jolly s revenge and a hopslinger or two as well while i m there share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories beer brewery brewfile uncategorized 1 comment the beer house waterloo posted on november 26 2012 by bibacityphil you know the feeling you arrive at the train station cold and a little merry from the day s evening s drink and your train has just left that means half an hour in waterloo the king s arms and the white hart while close and very good pubs are probably too far for a quick drink so someone suggets the beer house actually in waterloo station the last time i had been in there was probably more than a year ago in a previous incarnation and to be honest i didn t have much hope for it well both meantime s london beers flying dog pale brewdog s 5am saint and erdinger dunkel on tap not to mention a very decent bottle selection too i stopped looking afteri saw 5am saint the pub itself feels like a train station airport pub overall uninspiring but the selection makes it worth a quick drink if you find yourself killing time in the area i would link to it but i can t find anything about it online share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories uncategorized leave a comment my first extract brew the frisco porter posted on november 18 2012 by bibacityphil i have been wanting to make a porter since we started homebrewing all of 2 brews ago as i have said i m really getting into my stouts and porters and i know that one i d crafted myself would taste that much better but probably only to me so after having recently tried the anchor porter i decided to make a clone of that but due to me being the only one of the three brewers who likes dark beers and a bottle shortage i made a half batch about 12 litres the recipe i used needed converting twice from imperial to metric and then in half this lead to lots of checking re checking and re calculating and no doubt i ve messed up somewhere but i m sure it ll turn out drinkable whilst steeping the specially grains chocolate malt black malt roasted barley and crystal malt it smelled like coffee and walnut brownies lets hope some of that makes it into the final beer i bittered with northern brewer and cascade with no aroma hops depending on how it turns out i may add some aroma hops to the next batch the boil went without a hitch cooked the wort topped it up to 11 litres and took a gravity reading 1075 so i topped it up with a but more water and brought the gravity to 1065 a touch more sensible so depending on where this finished this could be a 6 7 er nice and healthy bottling planned for 3 weeks time then drinking in the new year a perfect little january warmer i hope we had planned to try our first brew this weekend as it had been bottled 3 weeks ago but it was my brother a birthday yesterday so he wasn t around and my dad was a little tender so we ll crack the first one when we next meet in another 3 weeks by then after 6 weeks in total in the bottle they should hopefully be clear smooth and wonderfully carbonated or at the very least drinkable 51 446568 0 413210 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories home brew uncategorized leave a comment a landmark sunday posted on october 28 2012 by bibacityphil the first home brew bottle orange and coriander water saaz pellets about to go in mmmm beef today was a momentous day first off we bottled our first home brew we had a cheeky taste before it went into the bottles and it tasted surprisingly good the cascade hops gave it a wonderful citrus fruity nose and came through in the aftertaste too there was something a little amiss in first taste on the tongue but hopefully that will settle down in secondary in the bottles we ll give it a few weeks and then try again but i m very hopeful secondly we put our second batch of home brew into the fermenter we did the cooper s wheat kit that came with the starter pack but boiled up some orange peel and ground coriander then stepped some spicy saaz hops and added that to the fermenter hopefully that will give it a little hoegaarden blue moon vibe the wort had a slight orangy bitterness in the background that was nice but let s see how it develops in the bucket and thirdly today was my mum s birthday and to celebrate my brother and i cooked a 5 5kg fore rib of beef roast potatoes glazed carrots yorkshire pud bacon braised cabbage and sherry glazed parsnips with chestnuts it was awesome the meat was perfectly pink the yorkshire reached the top of the oven and the roasties were deliciously crisp it flattened us all and the kernel porter i was supping during the cooking and the meal was a splendid accompaniment a lovely warming winter sunday now how long can we wait until we crack the first bottle of home brew 51 443181 0 189831 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories beer home brew uncategorized leave a comment turning to the dark side posted on october 27 2012 by bibacityphil to me if the words hoppy light blonde summer or pale are in a beer s description then i m probably going to like it those were my beers of choice and i steered clear of scary words like dark deep rich black smoked toasted and roasted that has been the way for all of my beer drinking life that is until i went on a tour of the meantime brewery and tried their london porter chocolate porter and london stout and then i went to the sambrook s brewery bash and tried their porter and to my surprise i really enjoyed them all they were deep rich toasted and all those other words i used to avoid but i liked them this was a revelation if i liked these dark beers then does that mean i might enjoy all those porters and stouts that i had kept well clear of all this time a whole new world of beer was opening up before me i think one of the key things was only having a small amount just a taster or at most a half most of my previous experiences of dark beers have been intimidating cold stolid pints of guinness placed before me on the bar like a gauntlet being thrown down challenging me to finish it but a half of lightly chilled porter well that s something altogether different it feels like it should be sipped and savoured tasted and relished not gulped down as quickly as possible this gave me the opportunity to actually pick out the flavours of the beers and taste them individually seeing their place in a well balanced beer so now on my beery adventures around london i plump for porters and stouts as well as my standard lighter hoppier beers and it is making the experience all the better camden ink thornbridge s bracia ilkley s crafty jane all beers that i would never have given a second look but now i feel drawn towards them maybe it s these cold arctic winds that are blowing through london at the moment meaning a cold dry hopped crisp pale ale just doesn t quite hit the spot i want something warming something that tastes like a country pub with a fire and old leather chairs comfort in a glass as i write this i m sipping on an anchor porter and it is delicious deep brown in colour smooth toasted and slightly sweet but light too and i have a kernal porter and a brooklyn black chocolate stout it my beer wine rack that i m very much looking forward to trying soon maybe now in fact at the gunmakers beer festival last month i did try a sip of beavertown s smog rocket smoked porter which i found very intriguing i m building myself up to getting a bottle of it or a half if i see it in a pub one step at a time people ok i do feel somewhat ashamed to be coming to the dark side so many years into my beer drinking life but i m still young and there are many beers light and dark ahead of me so finally a message to all those who are still wary of those blacker beers get a half of porter sip it thoughtfully roll the beer around in your mouth and see what you think i hope you ll be as pleasantly surprised as i was share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories beer uncategorized leave a comment by the horns and london fields brewery oktoberfests and ribs with neck oil posted on october 16 2012 by bibacityphil i won t lie i had been looking forward to last saturday for a while oktoberfests at 2 london breweries on the same day and one of them only a 10 minute walk from my flat and it ended much better than i thought too so lets get started shall we the first oktoberfest of the sunny but pretty chilly day was at the by the horns brewery in summerstown between earlsfield and tooting sw london the brewery itself is in a unit on an estate and was adorned with a gazebo much brewery signage and a bbq for the ubiquitous wursts we arrived about 1pm an hour after it had started and it was pretty quiet but that gave me a chance to speak to the brewers chris and alex about their setup and brews first off i tried a half of their stiff upper lip pale ale a very drinkable light session beer they ve only been around about a year and from talking to the guys you get the feeling that this is a big passion and that they re so happy to be able to brew for a living and give their creations to eager punters their setup is relatively small with i think 5 or 6 fermentation tanks one filled with their next seasonal american ipa a single hop willamette 3 of which were recent aquisitions for my next glass i went for the diamond geezer red ale wonderfully malty and hoppy more people we re arriving and the vibe was starting to get more festive we went outside and chatted to a beer lover who d been let out by his wife and decided to venture here after he heard about it at a recent beer festival good to know their name is getting around we talked london breweries and i drained my glass next up the lambeth walk porter deliciously robust and smokey perfect for the chilly day had to alternate my pint hand it was so cold they have been trying to get their beer stocked in local pubs who wouldn t want to drink a beer from down the road with some success the leather bottle for one is regular on their supply list and their bottles are also stocked in the earlsfield deli and finally for we had arranged to meet friends i went for their seasonal munich dunkel prince albert so smooth with a rich malty taste that s almost creamy didn t get a chance to sample their bobby on the wheat beer or their hopslinger black ipa so i ll have to keep an eye out for bottles of those they do sell bottles from the brewery but i think it s only open mon fri 9am 5pm but like i say you can get their bottles from the earlsfield deli just down the road i really enjoyed my brief visit to this fine little brewery and have already put their next event in my diary 10th november i ll be there with bells on for beer fans in london its great to see inside an up and coming brewery and meet the brewers really feels like like the beer has been crafted i can thoroughly recommend a visit great beers and friendly brewers and with the rocky head popping up just around the corner too it feels like south west london is having a little craft revolution of it s own then off across london to meet friends at the next brewery in hackney at the london fields brewery underneath the arches as it were we were greeted by music the smell of bbqing pork and the bubbly sound of people having a good time we headed straight to the bar and i plumped for half a love not war a warm red ale with a nice hop finish and my wife a bit beered out by this point went for a g t first downside plastic glasses my heart broke just a tiny bit maybe that was an indicator of the very different style and vibe of this oktoberfest than the one we d just come from still lots of beer to try and friends to chat with so chin up there was no space at the benches inside so we ventured into the open lots of seating outside some of it consisting of casks around stacks of wooden pallets despite the chill in the air but luckily we had scarves and gloves and beer friends arrived along with lots more people and the place starting to get very buzzing next i tried their pale ale which was a bit thin after the stronger hoppier red ale but i m sure a decent session beer and the hackney hopster which was well hoppy nice and crisp if a little too bitter for my taste they had various spirits behind the bar too along with their range of brews which is good as apparently not everyone wants to drink beer at an oktoberfest then i went on a journey through their single hop ipas delta cascade and galaxy if my memory serves me correctly which to be honest it migh...