Back Issues

Here is the complete set of back issues in pdf format, save only the last year's issues which are only available to members. Members can also get the articles organised by topic in the factsheets.

• March 2010 - A Continental Reader of "Brewer's Contact", German Beer Styles, Taste the Difference, Best Practise or Quality Control, Malt Extract - Again!, What's That In My Water?, Fermentation Temperature Controller, Mashing Manifold, Using the Binary Chop, Sutton's Triple Winner, Nick Resse, Shares His Secrets, Maris Otter Barley Champion
• December 2009 - The 9th National Home Brewing Competition, Majority Ale, Hop Additions: Does it Matter When We Chuck Them In?, 99 Minute Timer, MCBA Doing It's Bit For a Good Causes, "The Home Brewer's Recipe Database" by Les Haworth, 2004 edition, Wedding Day Brews, Another Shilling!, The Campden Tablet Myth - an Addendum, Water Treatment - Alkalinity Adjustment, Water Treatment - a New Approach, Louis Pasteur, The Brewer's Friend, Acronyms Abound!, Lovibonds Rated Best in the World
• September 2009 - The Chairman Reports by Tim Hampson, Chairman, British Guild of Beer Writers, More Musings!, Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer that built the British Empire by Pete Brown, British India Pale Ale - courtesy of 'Zymurgy' magazine, Copper-forget it! Let's talk plastic, High Gravity Dilution Brewing, The Importance of Brewer's Contact, Northern Craft Brewer News, Wisley's Homebrew, Four Brews in a Day, "Dundee Breweries" by John Alexander, The Shilling Terminology, Winter Black Strap
• June 2009 - Brewing Demo at the Dove Street Inn, Ipswich, Hot Side Aeration, Altbier: Horst D Dornbusch - a review, Tips for Pairing Food with Beer, Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher, Beer Casks, Measurement of Copper in Beer, Relocation, Relocation, Relocation, High Gravity Dilution Brewing, A Couple of Responses Related to the Recent Edition of Brewer's Contact, Tegestologists in Decline!, Square Casks, Drink With Thine Eyes, Kit Review: Milestone's Crusader, Timstar, Scientific Suppliers
• March 2009 - An Answer to Mr Peter Fawcett's article on the suitability of copper as a material in the brewhouse, The English Brown Ale Mystery, Scottish Craft Brewers, Amber, Gold and Brown by Martin Cornell - A Review of Chapter 16, Trouble at the Editor's Brewery, Fermentation Problems; Causes and Remedies, Real Ale, Recipes, History and Snippets by Bill Laws, Initial Trials Using Mixed Yeast Strains, Poor Practice but Good Luck?, A Winter Stiffener, The Camden Tablet Myth, Fresh Plucked Beers Bubble, Brew Like a Monk: Culture and Craftmanship in the Belgian Tradition by Stan Hieronymus, Brew Your Own British Real Ale by Graham Wheeler, Musings on Safety
• December 2008 - The Lady Behind The Sutton Success - Sara Carter, Sutton Success!, Pete Garrod's Double Success, "Amber, Gold and Black" by Martin Cornell, Brown Ale, "The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland" 4 volumes 1889-1891 by Alfred Barnard, Lager - A Personal Journey (Part 1), To Krausen or not to Krausen - That is the Question, Raw Hop Bitter or a few ramblings on brewing with Green Hops, Copper - is it harmful in brewing applications?, Janet Edge - an appreciation, E.R. Southby, "Practical Brewing", 3rd Edn, Ed C.H. Jolliffe, 1985, The National Brewing Library - James McCrorie, An introduction to our new Membership Secretary, Gregg Pittaway, Going Commercial - How - Adur Brewery, Scottish Craft Brewers, Kit Review: Milestone Brewery, Black Pearl Irish Stout
• September 2008 - Living With a Conical, A Visit to Jenning's Brewery, Jim's Beer Kit, Beer Flavours. An A to Z of Tasting , First Steps in Going Stainless, A Stainless Steel Mash Tun... the Easy Way, Vanquish Brewery Thermobox Mash Tuns, Oily Rags to Riches, Altering and Cleaning Stainless Steel in the Brewery, Flocculation 2008, Aleman - The Brewer Behind the Legend (HaHaHaHaHaHa), About Steve Flack - the New CBA Webmaster, Going Commercial - Why?, An Observation from a Wet Weather Brewery, New Kits from Milestone Brewery
• June 2008 - What Lies Under The Microscope, Cell Counting and Viability Testing - White Labs, The Cure For Cloudy Beer, Mick Brewery, What's in the Wood, Profile Of Keynsham Brewing Company Ltd, Batch Sparging - The Secret of a Prize-Winning Beer?, Rambles of a Grumpy Old Beer Writer or Dialectical Brewing, A Change from Sunday Roast, Building a Brewery, Barley's Angel, Brewing Tripel Gold, "Fixed Air" Beer's Place in History
• March 2008 - Barley Harvest, New hop variety 'Nelson Sauvin', Victorian Brewing - 'How to brew your own beer', Diary of the CBA at the Colchester Winter Beer Festival 2008, Beer storage before bottling, Hot side aeration, Re-pitching yeast, The Cooper's art, The Therminator.
• December 2007 - Mash efficiency revisited, a bottle cleaning machine, a yeast experiment, Therminator review, a retrospective of Dave Line's Big Book of Brewing, a submersible pump, successful dropping, making pale lagers, brewing like an Egyptian, Michael Jackson - an appreciation, Murphy's finings, defining gravity.
• September 2007 - A submersible pump, Defining gravity, Brewing like an Egyptian, Michael Jackson an appreciation, Dave Line's Big Book of Brewing 33 years on, Elena answers back! the case for Cornies, Getting the most from your pressure barrels, Hints for successful dropping, Making the most of plastic casks (1+2), Professional brewing aids - Murphy's finings, The Therminator, Making Pale Coloured Lagers.
• June 2007 - Growing your own barley and hops, Brewery history society, solving fining problems, Beer Additives - book review, basic fermentation temperature control, tour of the Wolf Brewery, a bottle washer machine, swing-top bottles threatened, musings on brown ale, turning copper water tanks into brewing kit, bottle safety, first wort hopping.
• March 2007 - More on Hop Growing, Bottle Shapes for Competitions, Real Ales for the Home Brewer by Marc Olloson reviewed, Bottle Conditioning by Priming, Mash Efficiency, Maltiness, Estimating Bitterness, An Englishman Down Under, A Guide to Craft Brewing book review, Filtration.
• December 2006 - Carbonation special, London Brown Ale, Back to basics - on the terrors of mashing, Coping with climate change, A new beer circle, Radical Brewing review, Successful hop growing in Mid-Sussex, Estimating hop bitterness, Brewing in South Africa, Beer Judge Certification Program, News from the trade, Ffos y Ffin Brewery, The other National, Northern Craft Brewers report.
• September 2006 - Better beer through taste training, Tasting Beer by Sean Franklin, Knowledge in Knaresborough (Brewing at Roosters), Producing quality mild ales at home, What goes down at the Vanquish Brewery Cambridgeshire, A new mashing course, Scottish Craft Brewers at the CAMRA Edinburgh Beer Festival June 06, Old British Beers, Brewing science book reviews, Brewing down-under - the things you do for a beer.
• June 2006 - Tenth Anniversary Festival, Safety in Numbers: How to Get the Best Out of Your Yeast, Brewing traditional African beer, Reviews of 'Beer - Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing' and 'Radical Brewing', Refractometer - toy or tool? Peated Ale - the beer that never was, James' visit to Scotland, Using T-58 yeast.
• March 2006 - Book Reviews, 'BeerFox' (Carolyn Smagalski) links to articles beer tasting etc, Craftbrewing with invert sugars, hop drying, kits, DIY bottle rinser, Beer and Whisky, Antiformin economy, dried yeast pitching rates, NCB at the CAMRA winter ales festival, MCB at Holdens, refractometers, a stainless mash tun, elderflowers.
• December 2005 - Sutton festival results: the ladies triumph, Ken Shales, carbonation, sugars, brewing with malt extract, a first attempt at mashing, commercial and home-brewed 20% all-grain beers, historical brewing, infection problems, Chris White on yeast and a review of the Beer Academy course.
• September 2005 - A Good Range of Esoteric Beers, An Englishman in Edinburgh - Brewing at Caley, Pale Ale Extravaganza by Clive La Pensée, Back to Basics (1) - Yeast by David Edge and the Midlands CBA, To: Elena, Her Master, and Cook - a canine correspondent writes on cleaning, Beer hazes, Signalbox Brewery secrets, Midlands Summer Meeting, New Products for the Craft Brewer from Hop and Grape, Fermentation and Conditioning Temperature Control, Brewing with a Water Meter.
• June 2005 - 6th National Festival, Derby, Derek Blackie recalls, Knowledge is power - the Website, Festivals and Judging, Brewing below stairs - Elena's tips on cleaning, Bottle conditioning, The crystal bitter challenge - further thoughts on bottle conditioning, Recollections of the village homebrew night, Caledonian visit report, News from Brupaks.
• March 2005 - Brewing with honey (additional recipes), Commercial Shed Brewing at Hoggley's, Continental recipes, Michaela Miedl on German brewing, Judging standards, Temperature, Ian McAnally's RIMS system, Frozen yeast, Spices.
• December 2004 - Alcohol, Yom on Yeast, Foam, Starters in fruit juice, Cooling, Midlands Caroline Trial, Gluten-free beer, Sutton winners.
• September 2004 - James McCrorie's brewery pt 1, British Craft Brewing on the Internet, Favourite House Beers, Selecting and Storing a Yeast Culture for Craft Brewers, First attempts at a gluten-free beer, local branch reports.
• June 2004 - Bugs, brews and bevies at the Edinburgh Science Fair, Freezing yeast, Scottish Craft Brewers yeast trial, Malt analysis and testing, A one barrel brewery, Thoughts from an improver and a visit to the Grainstore Brewery.
• March 2004 - Coloured malts, Home roasting malted barley, Chevalier to Maris Otter, Thomas Yates's Abbotswood Brewery.
• November 2003 - (Almost) everything you wanted to know about malt - but there's more in the March 2004 issue.
• January 2003 - More on cider, Steam Beer, Cobbett, Gauging.
• October 2002 - Brewing at Heather Ale, brewing science at Sarah Hughes, Les Howarth's recipe database review, brewing barley wine, brewing salts, brewing Down Under, cider.
• June 2002 - various things hoppy, a visit to Adnams and deep thoughts on recipes.
• March 2002 - Belgium, Thoughts, meanderings and possible heresy, skunking, festivals, Fritz Schoellhorn, sparging a 100% wheat grist.
• December 2001 - Brewing at the Boston beer festival, cultivating a hop garden, Klosterbrauerei Hacker in Gotteszell, 2nd National Homebrew Festival, Hornsey's 'Brewing' review.
• August 2001 - Temperature control, cleaning, gluten-free beer, organic beer.
• June 1999 - Choosing and caring for your yeast, The North Shields Hop Field, Bitterness - AAU or EBU, Finings, A day with the big boys - brewing at Harts, Designing Great Beers - review, Brewing at Olympia, Dropping systems, Tim Fox's Brewery.
• November 1998 - Brewing at GBBF 1997, Mash tun strainer, Elderberry beer, 1 gallon mash, Brewing bread, My first full mash, To skim or not to skim.
• July 1997 - Amber ales, Home roasting malted barley, Brupaks Craftsman kit review, Spring time brewing, Production brewing.
• February 1997 - Taking control of the fermentation, A cottage brewery, Brewing with live yeast, Water into liquor, Country House Brewing reviews,
• June 1996 - Graham Wheeler, National and local festivals, Mild ales - what are they and where did they come from, Wort aeration, Selecting your yeast, Making a good mild ale, Building your craft brewery.
• January 1996 - The logo, book reviews, Durden Park Beer Circle, How I started, hints and tips.