Brew 25 sees the return leg of our collaboration with David of Raw Brewing, Staveley, and this time he has come to the little brick shed to see how we roll with the Heath Robinson contraptions contained therein!

Using pale malt along with Vienna and a whole sack of Weyermann Melanoidin for colour, we have brewed a complex orangey-red brew with plenty of hop character as you’d expect from three of the more enthusiastic users of the sticky green bracts! US Warrior and German Herkules were used for bittering before bucketloads of Citra, Nelson Sauvin and Sorachi Ace were added for flavour and aroma resulting in the deepest hopbed I’ve seen since Mental Hop Bastard down at Brodies!

Dry-hopped in the fermenter and cask with deliciously pungent Nelson Sauvin hops, this should be a hugely hoppy yet succulently malty brew and should, in an event that’s rare for us, have some semblance of balance to the flavour, although the hops will win out in the end!

The brewday went so well - even with Gazza dropping (as is now customary) something into the just-filled mashtun, this time the mash hopper stand - that we may even do another brew! Plenty of ideas are flying around so you never know...