Weaselwood Homebrewery

The Manor

Weaselwood Homebrewery operates out of Weaselwood Manor — a humble house with a grand name, because pretension should be fun, not expensive.

We brew dark, sessionable beers in the 4–5% ABV range. Porters, milds, bitters, browns — beers you can drink more than one of without forgetting where you parked. Most get a touch of smoked malt, because everything is better with a little fire.

This is a homebrew operation with every intention of staying one. No investors, no taproom, no ambitions of scaling. Just good beer for good people.

What's Pouring

Pretender to the Crown (2026)

English Bitter (sort of) — v2

~4.2% ABV In Progress
A slightly different take on the 2025 original. Still pretending. Still knows it.
Pretender to the Crown (2025)

English Bitter (sort of)

4.2% ABV Served at MWP 2025
The original. An English Bitter assembled from whatever was on hand. It's pretending, and it knows it.
TBD — Day 2?

If time permits

??? Maybe
A second beer for day 2, if the brewing schedule cooperates. Cast your vote below.
Smoke & Mirrors

Smoked Brown Ale

4.8% ABV Conditioning
Rauchmalz and chocolate malt doing their best impression of a campfire in a pint glass.
The Groundskeeper

Dark Mild

3.8% ABV Fermenting
Low and slow. The beer equivalent of a nod from across the room.

Update with actual lineup as brew day approaches.

Recipes

Pretender to the Crown

English Bitter — brewed with the closest ingredients available

OG 1.042

FG 1.010

ABV 4.2%

IBU ~32

SRM 12

Fermentables

Maris Otter (or closest substitute)	7 lb
Crystal 60L	12 oz
Smoked Malt	4 oz

Hops

East Kent Goldings — 60 min	1.0 oz
Fuggle — 15 min	0.5 oz
East Kent Goldings — 5 min	0.5 oz

Yeast

English Ale Yeast (WLP002 or equivalent)

This is a placeholder recipe. Replace with the actual Brewer's Friend export when ready. The "pretender" part is that most of these ingredients are approximations of what an actual English Bitter would use.

More recipes coming as they're pulled from Brewer's Friend.

Ramblings

May 2026

Why Everything Gets Smoked

A brief defense of putting rauchmalz in things that probably don't need it. Spoiler: because it's good.

April 2026

The Pretender to the Crown: A Post-Mortem

What happens when you brew an English Bitter with whatever's in the closet. Tasting notes and lessons learned.

Placeholder posts — this section will grow into a proper blog when you're ready.

What Bad Beer Becomes

Not every batch is a winner. But at the Manor, nothing goes to waste.

Beers that don't make the cut get a second life. Failed experiments become malt vinegar, marinades, or ingredients in whatever else seems like a good idea at the time.

If you can't drink it, cook with it. If you can't cook with it, pickle something.

Weaselwood Malt Vinegar 2026 label — pirate weasel with a bottle