A Home Brew Journey

Lately I have been really busy at work and have hardly had a minute to get anything done, you know the basics like eating and sleeping (hence writing in a blog at 7AM on a Sunday). So when I had the bank holiday Monday off at the beginning of the week I thought that it was time to get another brew on the go. Unfortunately for me the staff at my local home brew shop also had the day off. So I had no beer kits, no brewing sugar or malt extract left over from my previous brews.

All was not lost though I had heard a rumour that Tesco in Glasgow had homebrew products in. As I was also needing food I thought it would be worth a trip in anyway. After 20 minutes of looking up and down the beer aisle I was beginning to think that I was having my leg pulled so I had to ask one of the staff. As I stood there waiting for a puzzled look from the guy I got a shock when he told me it was down the same aisle as the car care stuff.

All they stocked was Geordie kits and Youngs UBrew kits and products , definitely not as much of a selection as you would get online or at a home brew store but it did in a pinch. The prices were on a par with most places as well so I went on a little shopping spree

I was only going in for a lager kit but seeing the Scottish heavy kit was to tempting for me and I couldn't resist. I do enjoy a good pint of Heavy from time to time. So because I didnt know when I would get a chance to have a brew day again I thought I would go ahead and make them both at once. I will be putting the Heavy in the keg and bottling the Lager again. I must admit it was a fair bit of work doing the both of them in the one go but I put that down to not planning things correctly or leaving myself enough time. It was all kind of spur of the moment stuff