Kev's Homebrew Beer Pages  

Welcome To The World Of Mashing & Sparging

• Pubs Some of my favourite haunts from my former home town.

• Beer A brief guide to British Ale Styles.

• Picnic Box Mash Tun How to convert a coolbox into a mash tun.17/02/04

• Recipes Some of my favourites.

• Sankey Keg Conversions

• Mash Tun with Grist Hopper & Stirrer

• Boiler

• Hot Liquor Tank

• Silver Soldering Read this before attacking your Sanky Keg with a phaser set to kill ;-)

I'm not brewing at the moment, to cut a very long story short, I lost all my brewing gear when I split from the Ex Missus. My King Keg barrels are now flower pots so my kids tell me, all I have is my Thermos Mash Tun but at least it's a start. I plan to start assembling the equipment needed for a 10 gallon brewery and I will post my progress of this quest on these pages. 

Cape Hill Goes West: I was saddened to hear that the M&B Brewery at Cape Hill is now closed, this means there are no major breweries left in the City of Birmingham (although Cape Hill was over the city boundary in Smethwick, it was always known as a Birmingham brewery) I went on a tour of the brewery back in the late 80's and there's nothing like sampling the (free) beer in the brewery bar, it tastes so much better when you don't have to pay. My first (legal) pint of beer on my 18th birthday was a pint of "Mitchell's" Brew XI (for the men of the midlands) consumed in a right old dive called The Boulton Arms in Handsworth Birmingham, it's funny how it never tasted the same after I hit the legal drinking age. 

So Now M&B have gone the same way as Ansell's and Davenports and a lot of memories from my youth, sometimes I really hate capitalism. (especially multinational brewing conglomerates)  For the nostalgic, there's a good history of M&B at the Midlands Pubs Site.