34 - Old Ale with West Berkshire Brewery

By The Mash Tun

EpisodeOct 13, 201946m

34 - Old Ale with West Berkshire Brewery

By The Mash Tun

EpisodeOct 13, 201946m

One of the key parts of beer is the delicious grain that gives it its body, sweetness, colour and potentially many of its other attributes, the malted barley. If you're a fan of a big malt character in your beers, then Old Ale might be a great style to try, since it's packed full of big, biting and tasty malt flavours. In this episode Mike chats with Will Twomey, head brewer of West Berkshire Brewery (where Mike also works, which is totally a conflict of interest) about an Old Ale that was brewed recently, named Holly Cutter. We try Holly Cutter and discuss it's recipe, before delving into these other examples of the style: Morland - Old Crafty Hen https://www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk/ Theakston - Old Peculiar https://www.theakstons.co.uk/ Robinsons - Old Tom https://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/ And you can find out more about West Berkshire Brewery's beers at https://www.wbbrew.com/

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By The Mash Tun is a podcast hosted by a couple of nerds where we brew some beer, drink some beer and have a chat about beer. Each episode we brew a particular style of beer and during the “mashing in” (when the grains steep in warm water to extract their sugars and delicious flavours in something called a “Mash Tun”) we talk about that beer, how we’ve built our own recipe and drink other commercial examples of the style. All this, recorded whilst we sit By The Mash Tun.

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