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Second triangle taster test

Adnams showcase, deep seas Belgian blonde, with Connor. Recipe and style discussion

In the triangle taste test, the festival goes preferred the homebrew!!!! It's getting busy!

First customers

Judging is underway, 30 mins until the doors open

Our probrewer panel from adnams, moongazer and ampersand.

12 lines through madcat taps, and 12 through our own chiller and portable bar

Tap list up and running

Bar built underway

Talk venue built

Build crew on site

NAB have been holding annual homebrew festivals for several years, and this Saturday's will be the best. We've sold out (>150 paying customers), and will offer 28 different homebrew beers on keg. We're taking over a pub - The Mad Cat - build, run and teardown in a day. This Saturday. For...

Old Ale Shocker! (thanks to @Northern_Brewer) Tasting Old Ale with the boys

I've been told I need to say sorry. Drinking British Strong Ales with LAB Open BoS Winner.

eta: regarding Old Tom. I lost my coffee over my keyboard when I read your sentence about Old Tom 'not identifying' as a barley wine. Thank you.

That's superhelpful. In the end we didn't drink Adnams Old Ale as an old ale, as it has no age on it. You will see our views when the edit is done, but we found it similarly contested. In 2015 BJCP Old Ale allowed brett, in 2021 it only allows mild acidity. and yet extended aging a beer in...

DIdn't know any of that! Thank you. I thought there was a faint trace of brett in the Tracquair House Ale - and I very much enjoyed it. The Orkney Skull Splitter was less of a star. More of that when I do the edit . I will report that even though we sipped, finding words coherently became...

A Tuesday night meet up with fellow Norwich Amateur Brewer BJCP judges to sample these beauties: Old Ale, Wee Heavy, Barley Wine, Strong Ale. Promises to be a downhill task. I have never had a wee heavy. Thanks to Scottish Craft Brewers for recommending the Tracquair House Ale - can't wait to...

We may have got a bit pissed.

Putting the cat amongst the pigeons this week with Stouts and Porters, featuring our head judge Keith (who took champion brewer at the LAB Open with a porter and a kolsch)