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How beer is made 1.

Choosing the ingredients 

A series on outlining the beer making process. We explore the how’s and why’s of brewing, for beer fans who want to find out more on how their favourite drinks are created.

In this first episode we look at the 4 main ingredients of beer and discuss their roles and what they bring to the final product, a glass of beer in your hand.



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Bill Bradshaw

Bill is a freelance photographer, and videographer with an emphasis on beer and cider. A former head brewer, cider-maker, author of four books on cider, Bill is an international competition judge, broadcaster educator and advocate for great beer and cider.  

Cider blending & maturation: Pt. 1

A CAMRA Learn & Discover video guide

In this 2 part series on cider blending and maturation, Bill Bradshaw guides us through a series of conversations with some of the foremost blenders at the zenith of the cider-makers craft. The kind of ciders that find us at the bottom of an empty glass, savouring the moment and dreaming of what led us there. This series features Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider, founders of Little Pomona cider, James and Susanna Forbes, founders of Find and Foster fine ciders, Mat and Polly Hilton and retired biochemist, cider maker and veteran of Long Ashton Research Station (the National Fruit and Cider Institute), Andrew Lea. (This video features robust language in praise of cider).

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Bill Bradshaw

A freelance photographer and videographer Bill is a cider: maker, author and educator.

“Is it any surprise we’ve reached a point where beer is the best it’s ever been? I don’t think so actually!”

— Tim Webb

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