Beds and Herts Home Beermakers
About Us

We are a group of enthusiastic and sociable home beer makers.  Our aim is to share our beers, knowledge and experiences and we welcome new home brewers, whether experienced or novice.  If you are starting out on brewing your own beer, we can advise you on equipment and help you with your first brew(s).

We meet monthly at the Warden Hill Community Centre  in Luton, on a Thursday.  Our format is to have a nominated style of beer for each month, sometimes with a standard recipe.   Most  of us compete regularly at shows, both local club and Federation shows and at major events such as the Wales and West, the National. (NAWB), London Amateur Brewers and the UK National Homebrew Competition.

We usually arrange a brewery visit each year.  Although this has not been possible recently - we hope to organise something for 2024 - possibly involving the Blackhorse Beer Mile.  Some of us managed part of the Bermondsey Beer Mile in December 2019 in conjunction with Bedford Homebrewers. This followed on from a tour and some excellent beers at German Kraft Beer located near Elephant & Castle.  It is a highly automated and modern small brewery producing lagers like you get in Germany (they even have a German brewer).  You can see a bit of the brewery and hear about our day on this Youtube video.


We put in an annual group order for English hops from Wealden Hops.  

ACTIVITIES

Contact Us

If you are interested in joining us, you are very welcome to come along to one of our meetings.  You don’t need to bring a bottle, just some glasses!  If you want to find out more about us, just drop me an email. Meetings are normally held on the second Thursday of the month starting at 8.00 p.m.  Please check our programme page for confirmation of meeting dates.

We look forward to seeing you.


Email to: Peter Robinson at BedsandHertsHomeBeermakers


Date last updated 17 November 2023

THE COST OF A PINT

I am often asked how much it costs to brew your own beer and frankly we don’t tend to think about it.  I am indebted therefore to Quentin who is shall we say careful with money, for putting together a comprehensive cost analysis for our recipe for Chelmsford bitter.   Given the recent price increases for ingredients and energy, I have taken the liberty of attempting to update this.


If you are unable to join us, but wish to take up a new hobby or revitalise an existing one, we have put together a brewing guide section with useful information and links to good material that we recommend.  There is a lot of stuff on the web, but some of it is not that helpful, especially if you are fairly new to brewing.  If you have any queries or need any help, please feel free to contact us at the address below.