The Buckland Brewers
Frits Takken went from a disastrous first kit-brew to creating a successful microbrewery with no investment capital. We chat with Frits to hear all about the journey along the way.
Author Yohanna Best
Yohanna Best
MASHED! Editorial Director, Writer & Designer. Favourite brew: I’m loving session brews at the mo - like BrewDog’s Dead Pony Club, or something citrusy like Gareth’s brew with Bramling Cross & Magnum hops plus orange peel.
How to Create More Time for Homebrewing
There’s no escaping it: all grain brewing is time consuming. It’s bloody good fun and the results are (usually) well worth the effort, but it can sometimes be a challenge to find a 4+ hour time slot to get it done.
Oddly enough, even the fun things in life need a bit of attention to make happen. But we’re always glad when we do prioritise the stuff that makes us smile.
Extract vs All Grain Homebrewing
Intimidated by All Grain brewing? Feel like it’s a legend that’s out of your comfort zone; the unicorn of homebrewing?
Homebrewing Tips from the Pros
We ask pro brewers and homebrewers for their top homebrewing tips to help you with your own mash ups.
THE HOP CLUB MANIFESTO
Not Just a Hop Subscription Box! We want to ignite your passion for homebrewing. Offering the support, encouragement, hops and kit to help cultivate your homebrewing journey. We give our members a 10% discount on every purchase of homebrew equipment and hops to help make this addictive craft more accessible.
The ART All Grain brewing
Throw away that colouring book!
A lot of our customers are split between all grain and extract brewing. And although my own first home brewing experience – like many – was extract, I soon got the bug to experiment and gain more control over what I was putting into my pint. I was keen to start all grain brewing but at the time it seemed a bit out of my league.
Brewery Spotlight – Barnaby’s Brewhouse
There’s loads to get excited about when it come to Barnaby’s Brewhouse. Obviously there’s the beer, which is pretty spectacular. And then there’s their passion for an ecological approach to brewing. We’re on the same page there as that’s how we roll here on the hop farm too!
Homebrewing Dictionary
Not all of us are able to – or wants to – grow a beard but one thing we can do to improve our homebrewing achievements is to get to know the lingo that unlocks the secrets to understanding brew recipes, brewing methods and the discussions amongst the brewing community.
Brewery Spotlight – Powder Keg
South West England is positively pulsating with exciting breweries. One of our local favourites is Powder Keg Brewery who are based in their custom-designed brewhouse near Exeter in East Devon. Powder Keg are propelled by the ethos “that life is not all about working and achieving – there is beer to be drunk, pleasure to be had and dreams to follow.” We’ll raise a glass to that one, Chaps!