REVOLUTION: Trouble’s a in Thailand
Thailand has a homebrew problem. It is illegal to homebrew beer! And if you wish to start a craft brewery it will be very tough.
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MASHED ISSUE 15
Well, this is an exciting issue! We’ve certainly got a sense of sampling Asian brews from our armchairs thanks to the great reports we’ve been sent from Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong. But if winter has had you dreaming about running off to warmer climes, you might want to think again about opening a brewery over there. It certainly seems like a challenge!
And while we’ve been huddling around the Brew Tank for extra warmth this season, our imaginations haven’t had to work too hard to conjure up tropical visions, because the hops in this issue of The Hop Club are bursting with flavours of grapefruit and white grape. Profiles you might not expect from UK hops. We’ve sourced them from the Charles Faram hop development programme. Read all about it in Jamie MacLellan’s article.
If you’d like to capture the flavours of Asia in your beer without the challenges of brewing there, check out the recipes using cool ingredients like koji, maesil and black rice. And if that wasn’t as thrilling enough, we’ve started a homebrew club too!
BREWING Notes
Bloody hell, it’s been cold! So with my woolly hat on I’ve been down in the cellar brewing a lot of lagers. Can’t say I nailed them all, as I was getting a lot of contamination during fermentation.
By Gareth Davies
Hop Development in a Changing World
The world of hops is extraordinarily weird and wonderful. Hop seeds are genetically extremely diverse so plants’ offspring can give rise to new and unexpressed aromas that are very distinct from their parents’.
By Jamie MacLellan
NO MORE Steamy Windows
A Brew Tank customer alerted me to the ingenious device that is The Steam Condenser, and as soon as they did I knew it was going to change my brew day forever.
By Gareth Davies
book review: The Art of Fermentation:
The Art of Fermentation: An in-depth exploration of essential concepts and processes from around the world, Sandor Ellix Katz
By Yohanna Best
homebrewing in Korea
I moved to Changwon, South Korea, in 2009, from San Francisco, California. I started brewing in Korea a few years after I arrived, because at that time, there were very few breweries making good beer, and the laws in Korea made it impossible to have beer shipped to me. So I took up a hobby my father had started many years before.
By Chris Wing
GWEILO The Brits who brought craft beer to Hong Kong. And back again.
Many businesses start with a dream; you have to have a bold vision to drive the process. Hong Kong based brewery Gweilo started from an actual dream.
By Yohanna Best
Women On Tap
Rachel Auty, founder and director of Women on Tap CIC, chats with Yohanna Best about the need for diversity in the beer industry and what she and other beer loving women are doing to change things.
By Yohanna Best
Aberystwyth HOMEBREW CLUB
Exciting news! We’re starting a homebrew club in the centre of Aberystwyth. The club is open to all levels. It doesn’t matter if you have never brewed before or you’re a seasoned veteran – all are welcome! Come join and share your love for craft beer.
By Gareth Davies
