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Anglian Craft Brewers

Anglian Craft Brewers are a group of brewers both amateur and professional, based throughout East Anglia, England who share the following aims:

Further the development of Craft Brewing
Inform and educate its members
Provide mutual support and friendship
Help beginners to progress from kits to full mash brewing
Organise interesting and useful events
Recommend the best suppliers and most useful books

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2019 Meeting Schedule

Date	Group	Venue/Event	Beer Challenge
Sat 12-Jan-19	Norfolk	Coachmakers Arms, Norwich	Any beer style but =<2.8% (equal to or less than)
Sat 02-Feb-19	Essex	Victoria Inn Colchester	Any beer style but =<2.8% (equal to or less than)
Sat 16-Feb-19	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	Any beer style but =<2.8% (equal to or less than)
Sat 02-Mar-19	Suffolk	TBD	Any beer style but =<2.8% (equal to or less than)
Sat 06-Apr-19	Norfolk	Coachmakers Arms, Norwich	Any Mild under 6% ABV
Sat 04-May-19	Essex	Chelmsford TBD	Any Mild under 6% ABV
Sat 11-May-19	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	Any Mild under 6% ABV
Sat 01-Jun-19	Suffolk	TBD	Any Mild under 6% ABV
Sat 13-Jul-19	Norfolk	The John Innes Centre	Altbeir 4.3% to 5.5%
Sat 03-Aug-19	Essex	Colchester TBD	Altbeir 4.3% to 5.5%
Sat 07-Sep-19	Suffolk	TBD	Altbeir 4.3% to 5.5%
Sat 21-Sep-19	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	Altbeir 4.3% to 5.5%
Sat 05-Oct-19	Norfolk	Coachmakers Arms, Norwich	Clone Beer Challenge - Lacons Patriot
Sat 26-Oct-19 *Postponed due to the Rugby*	AGM	Gladstone Arms, Stowmarket	n/a
Sat 02-Nov-19	Essex	Victoria Inn Colchester	ACB Festival
Sat 16-Nov-19	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	Clone Beer Challenge - Lacons Patriot
Sat 07-Dec-19	Suffolk	Oakes Barn, Bury St Edmunds	Clone Beer Challenge - Lacons Patriot

2020 Meeting Schedule

Date	Group	Venue/Event	Beer Challenge
Sat 11-Jan-20	Norfolk	Lacon's Brewery, Gt. Yarmouth	Any style 4%-5.5%
Sat 01-Feb-20	Essex	Victoria Inn Colchester	Any style 4%-5.5%
Sat 15-Feb-19 (TBC)	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	Any style 4%-5.5%
Sat 07-Mar-20	Suffolk	TBA	Any style 4%-5.5%
Sat 04-Apr-20	Norfolk	TBA	TBA #2
Sat 02-May-20	Essex	Chelmsford TBD	TBA #2
Sat 16-May-20 (TBC)	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	TBA #2
Sat 06-Jun-20	Suffolk	TBA	TBA #2
Sat 11-Jul-20	Norfolk	TBA	TBA #3
Sat 01-Aug-20	Essex	TBA	TBA #3
Sat 12-Sep-20	Suffolk	Chappel Beer Festival???	TBA #3
Sat 19-Sep-20 (TBC)	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	TBA #3
Sat 03-Oct-20	Norfolk	TBA	TBA #4
Sat 17-Oct-20	AGM	TBA (Dove Street Inn???)	n/a
Sat 07-Nov-20	Essex	Victoria Inn Colchester	ACB Festival
Sat 21-Nov-20 (TBC)	Cambridge	Maypole, Cambridge	TBA #4
Sat 05-Dec-20	Suffolk	TBA	TBA #4

2019 Clone Beer Challenge

Latest update and hopefully one of the last (Sept 2019).....

The date for the brewery visit has been confirmed as January 11th 2020. This will be combined with the Norfolk quarterly meeting for January. Numbers for the meeting are not a problem (Lacon's recently hosted 50 CAMRA members!). There is a good cafe near the brewery and Will the head brewer suggested we can either eat at the cafe or bring the food back to the brewery. We can decide this point on the day. There is no cost (except food) and Lacons will provide beer as well.

Unlike last year’s brewery visit, we will not be arranging a region wide minibus as the brewery is relatively easy to get to by public transport. I suggest we do however get collaborating when it comes to getting to and from the railway station in Great Yarmouth. Feel free to collaborate on sharing travel where appropriate though.

With respect to the recipe, Will has provided the exact brewsheet for the small run of Patriot he brewed recently. This is shown below. Note his brewlength so you will need to scale this to your own and it has been suggested that using the percentage method is best for this. The brewery will not make their yeast available so Will suggested something fairly neutral that will promote the hop forward nature of this beer.

Each region will judge their own beers and select ideally two (max 3) to go forward to the final evaluation at the brewery during the visit.

5BBL(930L) recipe for Patriot

125Kg extra pale Maris Otter
12.5Kg wheat malt
4KG crystal 150

75minute boil

235g challenger 8.56AA at 0 minutes
235g challenger 8.5AA at 40 minutes
2KG Mosaic and 2KG Cascade at 70 minutes along with zinc and protofloc

Flame out 75 minutes

2 days on chill in fermenter after fermentation

Then 2 days in conditioning tank on 300g Mosaic pellets and 300g cascade pellets before racking into cask

Links to other Homebrew clubs

Listed below are links (websites/facebook pages) to other Homebrew clubs around the country that you maybe interested in.
Send an email to the Managers of this group if you want to add another club to the list.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftshedbrewers/ (Us on Facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cambridgecraftbrewers/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/295886590522433/ (Chelmsford & Mid Essex)
http://www.midlandscraftbrewing.org.uk/
http://londonamateurbrewers.co.uk/
http://www.thehomebrewfestival.co.uk/
http://groupspaces.com/NorwichBrewingClub/ (Norwich mid-week club)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1690905444508730/ (London & SE)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ipswichbrewclub/ (Ipswich mid-week club)

New ACB Website

Please check out our new website. The plan is to move away from Groupspaces but at the moment we will continue to organise events and accept membership requests