OUR BREWING METHODS

Your WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery allows you to brew as you like, from a basic ‘just add water’ method to some slightly more complex options using malt, hops and other ingredients. 

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The Basic Method

In this method, we supply you with the extract and yeast, and you just add the water and make the beer as per the instructions. There are no extra ingredients to handle and you don’t need experience to produce a great tasting beer. You don’t need a kitchen either, as it’s all made in the personal brewery. Even if you start getting into the more advanced and creative methods, you can always make a great beer by returning to the basic method.

The Advanced Method

There are 78 beers in 23 categories in the BJCP Style Guidelines (http://www.bjcp.org/). We cannot supply all these beer styles via the basic method but we can still make them all in the WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery. What we do is offer another brewing method. It is what the American homebrewers call “extract plus grains” or “the steeping method”.

In this method we use an unhopped light extract as the base malted barley ingredient but also extract some flavours and colours from special malts and hops. A kitchen is required to heat up a few litres of water in two pots. We soak a small amount of specialty malts in hot water in one pot to extract the aromas, flavours and colours we need from them. The hops are boiled in the second pot for a period of time to extract bitterness, flavour and aroma from them. The specialty grains and hops are removed and the water they were soaked and boiled in respectively gets added to the personal brewery. You then add the base extract, water and yeast as you would in the Basic Method, but the extra step of using some coloured malt and hops gives enormous flexibility to make many beers styles.