Looking for a brewery brew day experience for a mates 50’th

hoppyscotty · Nov 27, 2024

A good mate and brewing buddy of mine turns 50 soon and a few of us are looking for a nice gift for him and gift ideas are running a bit thin. I see some breweries do brewday experiences. Most breweries I’ve found so far that do these experiences brew more traditional ale styles, which I’m sure he’d enjoy, but he’s a massive hop head and loves hop forward pales and IPA’s, so ideally looking for a brewery specialising in those styles. Anyone know of any that do these brewday experiences? Willing to travel and make a weekend of it, but we’re in the East Midlands area. I see Neon Raptor do them but looking for others to choose from.

Thanks.

Leon103 · Nov 27, 2024

@Hoddy at Maverick

hoppyscotty · Nov 27, 2024

Leon103 said:
@Hoddy at Maverick

Not heard of those guys before...look good will check them out and get a case of beer from them for sure. Thanks.

Mayor of Simpleton · Nov 27, 2024

Langham at Petworth in South Downs do a brewer for the day. You get to brew on their kit. I dare say if you arrange it with them, you could go in on a day when they are brewing a hoppy beer.

MmmBeer · Nov 27, 2024

You could try this, https://www.brewhouseandkitchen.com/venue/nottingham/

Sadfield · Nov 27, 2024

Redwillow do traditional and craft beers, you could see if you could do this on a day they brew something craft. They are also one of the best breweries in the country.

https://redwillowbrewery.com/products/copy-of-brewery-tour-20th-may-2023

The drunken cyclist · Nov 28, 2024

Check out. Gilbert's you brew. on Facebook he's in long eaton
It's a cracking day

stripeyjoe · Nov 28, 2024

If you fancy a trip down to that there London then there is the Mash Paddle, on the Bermondsey Mile.

https://www.mashpaddlebrewery.com/brewing-with-mash-paddle-brewery/

Northern_Brewer · Dec 5, 2024

hoppyscotty said:
A good mate and brewing buddy of mine turns 50 soon and a few of us are looking for a nice gift for him and gift ideas are running a bit thin. I see some breweries do brewday experiences. Most breweries I’ve found so far that do these experiences brew more traditional ale styles, which I’m sure he’d enjoy, but he’s a massive hop head and loves hop forward pales and IPA’s, so ideally looking for a brewery specialising in those styles. Anyone know of any that do these brewday experiences?

Even if they don't explicitly advertise it, I suspect most small breweries would be up for it if it was at a quieter period (Jan/Feb is perfect for this, beginning of December most definitely isn't!) and they get someone to dig out the mash tun and get some cash out of the deal. Doesn't have to be explicitly paying for the brewday, just buying a meaningful amount of beer would do - say £2-300 worth? Presumably he has a party coming up?

Also helps if you make it clear that he's a homebrewer, so they know they don't have to explain what mashing is etc.

And it's good form to bring beer for whilst you're cooling the wort, either homebrew or a "fun" commercial one.

Doing it on spec like this will only work for small breweries - the one man band kind - once they start employing assistant brewers they start worrying a lot more about health and safety etc. You're not going to be able to walk into somewhere like Cloudwater and get all their secrets on spec!

hoppyscotty · Dec 13, 2024

Thanks all. Have sent a few local breweries emails asking them if they can do a brewery experience and see what they come back with.

UKSkydiver · Dec 13, 2024

I know it's not necessarily near you, but 'Midlands' and that's Purity. It's a few years ago now, but we had a great day there.

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