Everything (I think) I Know About Hopping
Learning and Creating a Hop Schedule When I first started home brewing, I had some brew fails. I followed the recipes close enough, yet I neglected to adjust for boil…
Oatmeal Stout
Codename : Westfort Oatmeal Stouthorpe Doing basic oatmeal stout, but used a bit of a helter-skelter of speciality malts to use up old stock. Trying something out of the ordinary,…
Beer Review – Pas St. Ambroise
Beer Review : Pas St. Ambroise Back in October 2022, I brewed an oatmeal stout modelled after McAuslan Brewery’s St Ambroise. As my beer title suggest, Not St. Ambrose. I…
Best Bitter
Codename : Westfort Best Bitterthorpe Returning to a lighter coloured beer, doing a Westfort version of my Mountain Portage Best Bitter. In a similar tradition to that one, I used…
Foreign Extra Stout
Codename : Westfort Export Stouthorpe In my ongoing attempts to brew more stouts, and try more stout styles, I have arrived on a foreign extra stout. In the older British…
English IPA
Codename : Westfort Pig Dog IPA(2023) Doing an English IPA has been in the pipeline for a while now, this will will be dry hopped. The clever name is an…
Sweet Stout
Codename : Westfort Milk Stouthorpe (2022) As I have covered off most of the stout styles I enjoy drinking, it was time to try a milk stout, also known as…
British Strong Ale
Codename : Westfort Heart of Oak Alethorpe While researching recipe ideas, I discovered the notion of adding oak chips to a beer after it has completed the first week of…
Irish Stout
Codename : Westfort Irish Stouthorpe After all the stouts I have brewed, it was about time to do a regular Irish Stout. Ingredients 1 lbs 5 oz Maris Otter malt…
Oatmeal Stout
Codename : Westfort Cocoa Oatmeal Stouthorpe This is a do over on my first chocolate oatmeal stout. Back then I made rookie mistakes, I am still making them. Despite the…
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