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tumn of 2013 to re brew what i think was a moderately successful american pale ale recipe that i home brewed earlier that year and so came about the first commercial collaboration brew i can lay claim to this was followed in december by a second brewery collaboration that brings me full circle back to where i was standing talking to phil or rather listening to him being much less long winded than i am currently so i needed a beer well it was a long winded conversation after all but more importantly i needed to brew one not just drink it in time for a september event homebrewing probably wasn t enough it felt like it really needed to be commercially available at the time i can t for the life of me remember right now if rob from blackjack was standing with me at the time or if i pitched the idea to him later but somehow an agreement was reached that i d return to manchester to brew and this wasn t just a collaboration that boosted the ego of a two bit home brewer but a genuine cuckoo brew the idea gained momentum in my mind at least what to brew dust off the apa again no it needed to be something new what about another homebrew i ve been pleased with hmm nothing is jumping out at me i ll tell you what let s take the same concept of the last beer i brewed at home the one that got infected and was an unmitigated disaster one that i therefore have so far not managed to get any reliable track record for for the purposes of discussion i count having done it once successfully as having a reliable track record let s take that concept go back to the basics of what i want to come up with and rock up at the brewery one morning without a complete plan how it is actually going to be achieved what of the concept then i wanted an ipa that had plenty of character but managed to achieve it with all english hops a robust body with a strong hop presence not lip curlingly bitter i wanted the hops to be all about the finish rather than punching you in the face before you start as i walked into blackjack on the brewday i had a few thoughts on what malts and hops might work and an idea of the sort of strength to aim for but that was it the plan evolved malts had to be decided on before we could get down to mashing in obviously but the hopping could and did follow after just in time brewing i guess so the grist developed quickly with a good dose of pale malt supplemented by something darker to get towards the deeper copper colour i was looking for and to impart some extra flavours this was achieved by a fairly small amount of dark crystal malt balanced by wheat and cara malts to provide extra body i already had two hops in mind first gold and admiral which both feature high in the list for intensity amongst the english varieties keeping an open mind though a rustle through the hop store brought summit to my attention there was an appealing fruity aroma which fitted perfectly and so the decision was made to use a combination of all three a bit of admiral at the start of the boil to get the desired bittering and a goodly quantity of all three combined late on half 5 minutes before the end of the boil and half 10 minutes later the hop selection seemed to be well vindicated judging by the sample taken during the transfer to the fermenter with a good fruity aroma and flavour showing through and that s how i had to leave it it s slightly strange leaving your beer in someone else s care like that but needs must the next time i was going to see it it would be handed to me across a bar it was about three weeks later that the moment finally arrived the beer had been at the craven arms in birmingham for a week or so but i managed to time walking in with the freshly collected pump clip down to perfection as i was handed a sample glass that had quite literally just been drawn through time for the first taste it was a pleasingly robust colour and the solid body i had intended to achieve was all there enough bitterness to enjoy without being overwhelmed and yes as planned a nice fruit finish a little subdued but very definite since then i ve followed east indiaman to a number of other pubs and festivals and it has been an interesting experience to learn how different cellaring techniques and timings have affected a single batch of one beer it has given me good appreciation of what care and attention the beer most benefits from at least while young it will be interesting to see how some of the casks which will have had the benefit of much longer conditioning in the brewery fare as well and to see how the kegs compare so when this batch has all gone what next well there s some discussion been had about brewing a further batch and while i want to make some tweaks i am generally quite happy with where this recipe has ended up in the meantime another rather exciting offer has landed that could see a turn to something slightly more continental making best use of facilities geared up to kegging beer number two is definitely on the cards for otherton in the coming months for now here we are nearly back in macc and this first batch of east indiaman gets one of only three outings in keg i ll get what is almost certainly my first sample in that format and i m naturally hoping it works out i m pretty sure i ll get some direct feedback regardless so come along to what promises to be a marvelous event say hi have a taste and be gentle see you there posted in uncategorized leave a comment may 25 2014 not so young enterprise this is the tavern it occupies a position in the centre of stafford at the end of the pedestrianised section of the main shopping street and in my experience has never looked either a busy or a particularly appealing pub despite what should be a really prime location for a town centre drinking hole five minutes walk from the station even closer to taxis and buses and right in the centre of town owners enterprise inns want to sell it have it advertised for sale in fact and as they have in my view anyway not managed to make any sort of success out of it i can t really blame them and last week they had some very serious interest from an experienced publican who d done some careful research and had come to the conclusion that they could turn this into something that would fill a pretty large gap in stafford s market stafford is a fairly typical historic market town which is somewhat overshadowed by the dominance of stoke on trent over the county to which it gives its name at times or in places it seems tired and run down sure but at others there s a liveliness about it and it is certainly far from written off but from a drinkers point of view it rarely gives me cause to venture into town more so in the past few years since i ve been living a few miles out of town and more significantly a station stop further south that means leaving stafford railway station to venture to the pub is a mission in itself the overwhelming impression of the town centre possibly the whole town though there are maybe one or two pubs further out that serve a more suburban market fairly well that the research previously mentioned backed up is that stafford appears to have no real independent free houses at this point i will invite anyone who can genuinely correct me to do so but let me explain that thinking first there are a small number of clearly brewery tied houses joules run one there are the inevitable marstons group pubs and the other that springs to mind is perhaps the best of the whole town centre the titanic run sun inn which was born out of the everards project william and serves up mostly titanic and a couple of everards beers with the odd guest then there are the usual pubco premises that abound and all appear constrained by the usual restrictions that such ownership brings then there are the free houses at least some of them independently owned yet seemingly wrapped up in tight deals with certain breweries or other suppliers that no doubt provide them a low effort way to offer cask and other beer but with precious little option for the more discerning beer consumer in fact the odds are that the best chance to find something different is by visiting the wetherspoons that regardless of me not being a huge fan of the chain anyway i find one of their less inspiring outlets so what stafford could probably do with is a genuine free house that puts on a wide and varied selection of quality cask beers and maybe even supplements that with a uk and international keg offering as well done properly truly independent and providing an oasis for those who want to seek out something a little different something that especially in my own case might make the five to ten minute stroll from the station to venture into town a worthwhile experience especially given that there is virtually nothing even uninspiring within the same time window or that might mean the trip into town is a worthwhile experience for those searching for something of interest in their pint half pint third pint glass rather than heading outwards towards stoke stone crewe wolverhampton birmingham or even further afield i understand that was exactly the sort of concept that certain parties had in mind when they attempted to make an offer on the tavern i say attempted because enterprise inns won t be considering the offer why because they know that quite possibly someone other than themselves could turn the pub into a successful one possibly a really successful one they don t want that because they own other premises in the town they want the custom going to their pubs rather than being swayed by a bettering offering and so the sale is restricted this building cannot be used as a pub once sold the resstrictive covenant which prevents a purchaser keeping a pub a pub is being applied in order to ensure that drinkers are forced to accept the more mediocre offerings which their other premises in the town and those controlled by other equally protective organisations or owned by beer ambivalent companies who are happy to just dumb down the beer offering that they don t understand it s almost like a cartel except that many of those complicit in it are completely oblivious and frankly don t seem to care what is there to do i have no idea change of use from a pub is a much easier matter than getting new premises licenced as ever the pubcos seem to be able to call the shots and prevent market forces from ever having a chance if they are so sure they are the custodians of the pubs that ought to survive commercially if nothing else then they ought to have the courage of their convictions and let others have a go at providing them a challenge instead they are allowed to exert a monopoly influence safe in the knowledge that reversal of the damage they do is prohibitively costly and sadly the law supports them shame on you disclaimer i have no involvement in any attempt to purchase the tavern but do know someone who is i m no more or less pissed off as a result as i would have a vested interest in drinking there if it was turned into the kind of venue that was described to me most notably since the always interesting if not always successful stafford arms next to the station was run down by one or other of the pubcos i won t say which as i m not 100 sure and eventually became overflow parking for a mercedes dealer posted in uncategorized 2 comments tags enterprise pubco pubs restrictive covenant stafford tavern march 26 2014 a matter of taste when tasting beer i ve made myself i find it difficult to have the same detachment that i do when tasting that made by other people and rather than being a case of rose tinted glasses of failing to find fault in your own work if anything it s the opposite there s a streak of perfectionism in there for sure but it is more than that i can t make up my mind if it is just being overly critical to compensate the risk of self congratulation or if it is just a product of being to close to the whole thing i know that when i make a beer i tend to have a perception beforehand of what it will be like the target i m aiming for sometimes that target is missed not always by a long way but i end up with something that doesn t match the expectation and maybe that s the problem rather than considering a sample on its own merits or at least to a fairly broad expectation of a style as you would any other beer maybe the problem is comparing to a perception of precisely what it was meant to be it doesn t help when my own views on which beers i ve made have been good and which haven t aren t echoed by other people there are beers i ve been quite unhappy with that have gone down a storm and others that have been just what i wanted them to be that have been less popular it all adds to the sense of doubt in my ability to critically consider my own beer am i being unfair are others just being polite do i even know what i m talking about i had a very early sample of my chilli stout yesterday this has been brewed at least in part for the northern craft brewers competition in saltaire it was the second attempt due to problems with the first batch some modifications were made and this attempt went much better ok it has only been in the bottle for just over a week so it is still young it has a couple more weeks to properly condition before it gets to saltaire but already the carbonation was getting there so any concerns i had about that aspect can probably be put to one side aroma hmmm not convinced something seems not right to me or then again does it i m just not sure i pass it to lisa why did you screw your face up is her first question it smells great apparently i m still unconvinced a taste again not sure slightly oxidised perhaps i hope not or am i trying to find faults where there are none certainly it s drier than i expected rather than a full bodied slightly sweet malty chocolate base it is slightly thinner more subtly chocolate it might even be all the better for it but the chilli seems absent another sip larger this time the flavours are reinforced but then too suddenly there it is not in your face but a gentle warming at the back of the throat the verdict again from the other end of the sofa is all positive but i m still not convinced it isn t entirely the way i d envisaged it turning out but much of that is different not wrong and all part of the learning experience the chilli doesn t dominate just as i d hoped but there is a risk that it is lost altogether in early sips might that cause it to give the wrong impression in a competition tasting hopefully not the flavour should come through in time to make an impression so there s just that issue of whether there is something wrong with the overall taste or if it is just me being harsh i guess we ll find out in a few weeks posted in uncategorized leave a comment tags beer brewing competition home brewing homebrew saltaire march 1 2014 my how we changed i ve been quite anticipating boak and bailey s long read for march 1st but as it has got closer 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