Foraging

Growing your own ingredients is rewarding, but foraging for them can be even better. Nature has done all the hard graft of sowing and nurturing, leaving you to grab the spoils for free.

Foraging puts you back at one with nature and takes you down seasonal brewing paths that have been followed by generations of home brewers. For us, few sights are more exciting than the mass arrival of elderflowers, signalling the start of summer and a long season of increased fermenting and infusing activities. When autumn arrives, a whole new selection of fruit and berry flavours will send brewing addicts into a giddy spin – we struggle to complete any car journey without emitting excitable yelps every time we drive past a previously undetected apple tree.