Help Us Find Europe’s Best Airports & Railway Stations for Beer!

Are you a beer-loving traveler? Have you ever been pleasantly surprised by a great beer selection while waiting for a flight or train? At EBCU (European Beer Consumers Union), we want to find out which European airports and railway stations…

Grain Basics

So you've decided to make the move to all grain brewing. Now you want to know what all these different grains are used for. While you can make a great beer using just Pale Malt there are a lot of different styles of beer out there that…

Note Taking. The importance of your brew book.

 Note taking is not really stressed by most brewing resources, if it is mentioned at all, but, in my opinion, it is one of the most important elements of the brewing process and can make the difference between producing good beers and…

Keep it simple. You don’t need a complicated recipe to make good beer.

Websites and books are full of recipes, extract and all-grain, telling you how to make a clone of your favourite beer. The ingredient lists is usually five or more different malts, two unmalted grains, three different hops and a special liquid…

Getting started: Brewing beer, with beer kits.

Those of you who have experienced rudimentary home-brew, perhaps performed by college students interested in cheap alcohol, rather than quality beer, might shudder at the thought of this, but let me assure you; it is possible to produce quality…

All grain brewing. Easier than you might think.

 All grain brewing is the process of making beer from malted barley, hops, water and yeast. There are many technical tricks and calculations brewers use to increase the efficiency of the process, or make particularly tricky styles of…

Why Hops?

Beer has not always contained hops. Before the use of hops began in the 11th century, people mostly used a combination of herbs and spices known as gruit, to bitter their beer. There was no standard way of bittering your beer and everything…

Irish Water Profiles

This item presents a set of tables giving you information on water profiles for named water supply areas in Ireland. The raw data has been sourced from Local Authorities and the EPA and is summarised here to, hopefully, save you time. If…

Hops – Basic facts and figures

Choosing the right hops for your craft brew can be a daunting experience when faced with list upon list of hop varieties. The tables reproduced in this knowledge base item aim to give you an idea of the bittering and flavour characteristics…