Matt's Leaving

Bristol's Loss is Belfast's Gain

Last night was a great night out tinged with sadness as we send off our much-loved club founder, and man that brought us all together, Matt Hazley. Matt is moving back to Northern Ireland in a few days before travelling the world in 2025. Of course, we only know one way to do a send-off properly and that’s with beer!

Starting at the Swan with Two Necks the group quickly grew, bringing friends together who haven’t seen each other for years. After a few pints had very quickly disappeared we made our way to the club’s home at Wiper and True’s beautiful taproom, where Evs made a surprise appearance. After drinking through their extensive tap list, last orders were called, and the group separated to make their way home.

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October 2024 Meetup

Christmas Collab Challenge - Brewer Pairings

Another great night out at Wiper and True’s Taproom, and our special annual announcement of the Christmas challenge pairings. Each year, brewers signup to the challenge, to get paired up and random and their challenge assigned. This year they will need to brew something inspired by their assigned Christmas movie.

Movie Brewers
The Santa Clause Ian & Dan
Jingle All The Way Pete & Rob
Gremlins Matt & Sam
The Grinch Remy & Ben
Die Hard Kendon & Will
Home Alone Euan & Paul

We all have until the Christmas meetup on the 18th December back at Wiper to present our finest work.

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Collab 23

Christmas Reel Ales

It’s that time of year already - Christmas! Well, at least time to announce the our annual challenge. This year, our theme is Christma Movies!

How does it work you ask? Well, two brewers get paired up and randomly assigned a movie title. Your job is to collaborate and brew something inspired by the film. Maybe the title? Maybe a character, or a line of dialog? Perhaps a scene that has inspired you? Or something incredibly tenuous? Doesn’t matter, work it out together (and explain the connection).

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Collab 16

Wiper and True

For Collab #16, we visited the Bristol stalwarts Wiper and True at their beautiful Old Market Taproom.

The idea was really simple and fun - we were tasked with designing a beer in the same way that Wiper and True design a beer and then the end goal was to make that beer and then collectively judge it against the design.

Wiper steers away from the overly clunky BJCP guidelines and has developed a set of criteria that they design a beer against. These criteria are much more about how the beer looks, feels and tastes, rather than trying to ram it into a complex style specification.

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