What is Home Brew Club?

The Twisted Barrel Home Brew Club is an exciting chance for anyone casually interested or passionate about making beer at home to socialise with other beer enthusiasts, share advice, discuss tips and recipes and learn more about the brewing process. Members can bring their own home brew in for constructive feedback, obtain help on equipment queries or brew issues and help each other to improve as brewers both at the monthly meetings and online through the invited members Facebook page.

What can members expect?

Meetings are popular and well attended, featuring talks on many aspects of brewing, followed by a Q&A and finishing up with that months’ home brew challenge tasting.

Challenges are set for each month throughout the year and every participant’s submitted beer is tasted and judged by the club. The challenges give members the chance to get creative and brew different beers which they might not have attempted before and expand their knowledge and appreciation of the style, utilising different hops, malts, yeasts and techniques following the challenge guidelines.

One of the high points on the Club calendar is an annual home brew challenge, whereby every participant’s free-style entry is judged by a panel, with the winner having the opportunity to brew their recipe on our 6BBL kit and see it sold commercially with your name on it.

Various social events also feature throughout the year, visiting other home brew clubs, beer festivals, brewery visits and participate, whatever your level of experience in a periodic club brew. Where everyone gets to pitch in making a beer at the brewery designed by the members themselves on the brewery pilot kit. Which is very much a learning and progressing together process.