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Fylde Homebrew – Hops and Malts for Homebrewers

Hops and Malts for Homebrewers

As lockdown eases our supply lines are opening up and we are able to add more products to the inventory and enable us to better support our thriving local homebrewing community. Our aim is to be able to supply hops and malts for homebrewers across the Fylde Coast from our stock here in Thornton.

Hops for homebrewers wise, we currently carry Magnum, Cascade (both UK and US versions) Bramling Cross, Fuggles, Goldings and Chinook. We should have some Citra arriving next week although anyone who wants Citra hop pellets should take a deep breath; they are coming to us at 4.5 times the cost of any of our other hop pellet stock!

In malts, we have Maris Otter, Extra Pale Ale, Munich Malt, Caramalt and Torrified Wheat. We should be adding rolled oats with our next delivery, which we use a lot of over here in the brewshed, and we are always looking to add to the inventory.

We also carry several complete all-grain recipe kits and are happy to make them up to order as well; if you have a recipe you want to brew we can probably make up the kit for you.

As we come to understand what’s needed we will add products wherever we can find a supply, 500ml beer bottles at £7.20 a dozen with crown caps for instance, keep an eye on the site and our Fylde Homebrew Facebook page and drop us a message if we can fill a gap!

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Beer Sheds!

As the country comes back to life and we all try to figure out what the new ‘normal’ looks like and we over here at Shed Beer are no different.

Our guess at the moment is that, as the pubs open and we begin to socialise again, then people who had a function planned for summer or autumn might start thinking that it’s possible again.

What this should mean is that our ‘Beer Shed’ concept is back in play and that we will be able to supply kick ass mobile bars to events and functions across the Fylde Coast.

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These are completely self contained units; all they need is a plug socket. We deliver the unit, plug it in and make sure it’s happy, give you a guided tour and leave you to it. Give the unit a couple of hours and you will have cold craft beer to dispense yourself; it’s that simple.

We are currently looking at dates in July as being possible so are happy to put some dates in the diary. Initial enquiries by email to steve@shedbeer.co.uk and we will give you a call to discuss.

Steve

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Beer – Where Next?

This year, 2020, will probably go down in history as the weirdest of the 21st century – although there’s a while to go so something really weird could happen yet.

For the beer industry it’s unprecedented, not even global conflicts have stopped the brewers brewing, so the industry has had to adapt on the fly and consumers have adapted right along with it.

This has, quite obviously, led to a huge increase in small pack beer consumption. I felt at the time that keeping beer on the ‘essentials’ list was a very British thing to do in a crisis and like the troopers we are we set about expanding our beer consumption rates with a will; heroes every one of you!

Our understanding right now, on the 5th of June, is that pubs will be able to open 4th/5th of July. That’s subject to confirmation and there will clearly be some guidance for businesses to adhere to but it’s definitely welcome news for many of us.

It’s also quite clear that many of us have enjoyed having their beer fix at home and and it’s been interesting for us over here at Shed Beer to have been part of helping that to happen. Our own beers have gone into bottles, we’ve been putting cask beer into bag in boxes and we’ve also helped some customers with fitting out bars at home.

Some of the creativity we’ve seen has been inspiring; who knew that the humble pallet could be put to such brilliant use?

Where this leaves us is really, genuinely, pleased that pub opening is on the horizon but also believing that home consumption is still going to be significant.

For us as a small business, what that means is that we will continue to support (and encourage!) those who choose to take their beer fix at home. We will carry as many small pack lines as we possibly can and continue to bottle as much of our own output as we can for home delivery across the Fylde Coast.

Once our supply lines are less gummed up and the brewers are actually brewing beer again we will be able to supply pretty much anything for those with bars at home from bulk beer in kegs to CO2 cylinders.

Steve

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Brewing Updates

It’s been a bit of a tail-chasing exercise trying to keep up with demand in these weird times, and then we had a brewhouse (well, brewshed!) problem that meant a full batch of West Coast Pale and a full batch of Shed Bodds went down the drain.

We are beyond that now though and both products are conditioning right now and tasting great. The plan is to have some Shed Bodds and some T’Stout available on the webshop this coming weekend, so 29/05 onwards, and then some West Coast Pale the following week.

Beyond this we should be right up to speed and brewing at least once a week. We have some new vessels arriving this week which will give us three times the capacity we have now.

We pretty much always have great beers available, just not always Shed beers. The new capacity should solve that.

Steve

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“Craft beer to the people…”

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Homebrew Supplies by Post

We can supply malt, hops and (some) yeast by post but we haven’t yet been able to integrate the various weight/postal rates so far. This means that it may appear that we don’t ship to your area – we actually do.

If we can help you with supplies we will, drop us an email here…

steve@s-p-f.net

…and we will get you a quote across asap.

Steve

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Home Bar Fitting

We are now able to supply and fit home bar equipment. These are all very robust pieces of kit, re-furbished ex-trade coolers, that will keep up with any amount of demand and produce products on your bar that will be eery bit as good as what you will be sered in the pub.

This is a two pump setup, a very compact unit of some 450 x 500mm that needs nothing more complex than a plug socket. Once we complete the fitting, which usually takes an hour or two, all you need is CO2 and beer; and we can supply both of those.

If you want a cask beer option then we can supply those as well:

Again, top quality re-furbed ex-trade kit that is robust enough for most needs.

We fit across the Fylde Coast and are here to support you beyond supply and fit.

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The Show Goes On…

So the dang Mexicans have sent us this hideous disease and we are all confined to barracks… oh, hang on. Not the Mexicans? Okay, well anyway we’re all confined to barracks but Boris, bless ‘im, has decided that beer is on the ‘essential’ list – and how brilliantly British is that by the way? – so we over here at T’Shed are doing our very best to get some stock and get the webshop sorted.

In all fairness, the concept here was never small-pack deliveries. The Shed Beer concept was this neat idea that we thought would work really well for functions and events:

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The Original Beer Shed

Now of course, thanks to someone who isn’t Mexican, all events for 2020 have been cancelled. We will still roll out the beer shed concept as it’s absolutely the core of the Shed Beer masterplan; we just don’t know when that might be.

In the meantime, being disciples of the principle that ‘when life gives us lemons we should find a recipe for lemonade rather than bitch about not having any oranges’, we need to adjust what we are doing; and maybe learn something in the process so…

Any and all stock of our own beer that we had is being packaged into 500ml bottles and sold through the webshop for local delivery. The brewing supplies we have can be packaged up and sold to local homebrewers because our bulk supply lines are still open, and we are sourcing as much stock as we can locally so that we can offer as diverse a product range as possible.

If you are a homebrewer we can help with malt and hops just now and we are working on complete whole grain recipe kits. We are always happy to talk to kindred spirits as well so will help where we can.

Our trading relationship with our favourite local brewers is still very much in place so we will be able to offer their products as well. Those will be mostly small pack but if anyone needs kegs we may be able to get them and there’s a distinct possibility that we may be able to do some bag-in-box cask beers and craft ciders.

Going forwards we will be able to brew once or twice a week but that will take a few weeks before there’s any impact, and this assumes that our supply lines remain open and beer deliveries remain essential.

We are doing our best. Please be patient, please like and share the Facebook page, and do email with anything we might be able to help with in these weird times; we’re listening.

Steve