A Bitterne Park-based group of home brewers has designed a second beer that will shortly go on sale commercially.
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Last summer we reported how members of the Butcher's Brew Club – a group that meets regularly at Bitterne Park micropub The Butcher's Hook to exchange home brewing tips – had dipped their toes into the commercial world by brewing 'World IPA' in partnership with Lymington microbrewery Vibrant Forest.
Following this success, the Brew Club team says they were keen to repeat the experience.
Something different brewing
“We got in touch with Aidan at the Dancing Man microbrewery and he was very keen to work with us, having tried and enjoyed World IPA,” said Butcher's Brew Club's Nick Rosser.
“We wanted to do something different to the last one and we came up with the recipe for a chocolate milk stout. A dark beer made sense around winter time. We showed the recipe to Aidan and he was more than happy for us to brew the beer on his kit.”
Chocs Away!
So on January 31 a group of Brew Clubbers went off to Dancing Man, previously known as The Wool House, in Bugle Street, and brewed ‘Chocs Away’, which includes lactose and cocoa nibs among its ingredients.
The Chocs Away tag is apparently both a play on the word chocolate, and a nod towards a company called ‘Moonbeam’ which used to be based in the Wool House: according to the Brew Club it was an engineering company belonging to the Moon family, whose family member Edwin Rowland Moon was Southampton’s first pioneer aviator.
Chocs Away will be sold at the Butcher’s Hook, The Dancing Man, Overdraft Craft Ale Bar in Shirley, The Bookshop Alehouse in Portswood, The Rockstone in Bevois Valley, and will be on sale at the Winchester Real Ale & Cider festival in March.
Bottles will be available at Bitter Virtue and Beers and Bottles in Portswood too.
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Home brewing club's first commercial beer goes on sale in September