Five Points Best: how we brewed it | The Craft Beer Channel

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Join us as we nerd out about one of our favourite beers, Five Points Best, with the man who created it - Greg Hobbs of Five Points Brewery. We talk about the joys of Maris Otter malt, Fuggle hops and British Ale yeasts as well as the importance of bitterness and classic British brewing - all while getting a tour of the brewery's huge new site in Hackney.
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@VelkyAl 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see best bitters getting some love among newer breweries, especially for such an underrated hop as Fuggles. Makes me think it is time to homebrew another batch of my single hop bitter recipe given best bitters are ridiculously rare in the US.

@HollowHandCollective 3 жыл бұрын

Best Bitter is due a comeback. I've suddenly got right back into it since the start of the year.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah we got super into it in the last year too!

@verykeen2please 3 жыл бұрын

Brew good beer and we will drink it

@DudesBrews 3 жыл бұрын

That recipe will definitely be getting brewed soon for the beer engine I've just acquired! Great to hear the brewers perspective on it too cheers guys

@jonathang.5092 3 жыл бұрын

Really love traditional British beers. Don't live in Blighty anymore so a feature like this really makes me homesick.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

We hope classic British beers will spread around the globe a bit more so maybe home will come to you

@spurs501 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and fantastic to hear that 'traditional' Best Bitters are still alive and kicking :)

@jonathangleason9404 3 жыл бұрын

This camera quality is CRISP

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks, we're slowly upgrading and upping our broadcast game!

@guillaumebourcy1619 3 жыл бұрын

Sooo nice to find back this brewery tour/meet the brewer video format!

@daveswinburne7946 3 жыл бұрын

Great shnizzle. I'd highly recommend you check out Anspach & Hobday's 'Bitters' too. 😉🍻

@jasonstone1046 3 жыл бұрын

Just brewed this bad boy. Beautiful beer and thanks for the content, great channel. Subbed!!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Glad it turned out great!

@lukaswint7067 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video as always 👍🍻

@juliantravers9077 3 жыл бұрын

Love Five Points Best but only ever tried the all grain recipe. Not living in the U.K. I don’t have much choice! However I fully intend to get to the brewery one day and drink my fill of the real thing.

@alfieleavy88 3 жыл бұрын

Looks great the best bitter colab with Cloudwater with burum was absolutely lovely! So if I see this about I’ll try it!

@mickerzsnickerz 3 жыл бұрын

I really hope bitters have a surge in the US someday. Strong Bitters are my absolute favorite style and brew one almost every other batch. I hope to try the Five Points Best someday, too.

@VelkyAl 3 жыл бұрын

Depending on where you live over here, ESBs are relatively easy to find. I brew an occasional best bitter collaboration with Three Notch'd Brewing in Charlottesville, VA, called Bitter 42, inspired by the likes of Timothy Taylor's Landlord and Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted.

@mickerzsnickerz 3 жыл бұрын

@@VelkyAl Yeah I live in California so everyones still on the IPA train. My favorite one is Deschutes' Bachelor Bitter. But I wish I didn't have to travel up to Bend, OR just to get it!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

And we hope cask ale will grow as a format too! There are some great US brewers using it, but it really does add another dimension to these malt/yeast forward styles

@saltymyster1 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video! I was interested to hear about the wet-hopped version of their Best. I've only done this once myself after growing some Fuggles in my garden (they even grow here in chilli, wet Scotland) and throwing a handful into the fermenter. The difference was striking, but it makes you wonder the quality of hops we homebrewers are getting after the breweries take the pick of the crop.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I believe mostly homebrewers get the same quality as breweries buying "spot" hops - ie not through a contract, as homebrew stores generally buy them in bulk like the breweries do.

@peidog 3 жыл бұрын

Good old british bitter, im sure most of us have had our fair share over the years.Most of the american hops derived from our english hops, it took the americans a long time to catch up on good beer, for many years they lived on a diet of budweiser ouch lol :)

@TheGrimbarianBrewer 3 жыл бұрын

Looks a beautiful beer and I remember the video of when you installed a handpull and got me intrigued so I bought one myself and waiting ona bitter to finish fermenting. Happy days haha. Cheers 🍺🍻

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Let us know how it turns out!

@TheGrimbarianBrewer 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel I will do,I'll be posting a vid when ready can pop and check it out then if you like? Cheers 🍺🍻

@discostucrazymunkey 3 жыл бұрын

Just brewed a kit of this from malt miller. It is banging

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers John glad it worked out well!

@Clickeral 2 жыл бұрын

So I brewed this beer based on your recipe, left it in my keg at ambient drank it at 12c and kept low carbonation to style and it was cracking. Took it to a case swap during the short period we weren't in lockdown and it was enjoyed by all. Can't buy it commercially in Australia so was great to drink it here. I'm aiming to be in the UK Aug 2022 if I'm allowed so keen to dry the real deal :) I even specifically brought Crisp malt etc to do this brew (I buy 5kg or 25kg lots)

@TheCraftBeerChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Wow top job Alan! Glad it came out well!

@SteveT__001 3 жыл бұрын

Great, my Best Bitter is based on 5 points developed from what I gleaned from your earlier videos. Not living anywhere I am likely to get a cask version I think I must buy one of those mini kegs to see how close I am.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

If you used our recipe from the homebrew video you'll be pretty darn close!

@SteveT__001 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel I did indeed, only used pellets, made it 3 times now and another go in a couple of weeks

@aethellstan 3 жыл бұрын

Not tried the best bitter, but have had the others and I consider their Railway porter as one of the best porters I have tried.

@MichaelAndersen_DK 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love a Best Bitter. Tried the one from Northern Monk last year and it was delicious, but haven't found this one in Denmark yet. I wonder what happens to the spent grain at 8:10?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I believe it all goes to either animal feed or biofuel.

@benoakes01 3 жыл бұрын

Is the taproom being shown in the next video?? I thought you were showing it in this. Thinking of going soon, so was hoping this would persuade me to venture up to Hackney...

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

That was the taproom! It's all outside for now. Apologies for not showing more of it, but during the day it's a working brewer's yard

@benoakes01 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel ah ok. just trying the bottled version of Best. revisiting this to see what it looks like on cask, because it's not what I expected- much lighter in colour. will you be trying it to see how it compares? not for a video, just for... yourself

@magnus.nasmark 3 жыл бұрын

Hope these guys can send a cask over to Akkurat in Stockholm.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Ach I doubt they can at the moment, but once Brexit is ironed out (or even better scrapped) maybe!

@SkunkyBrew 3 жыл бұрын

Man, I love those pint glasses. Are they full pints or smaller? Im American, our beer servings are typically 12oz but I think in England, you can get more (like 18oz)?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah our pint glasses are 20oz - 568 ml. Hence why our beer is typically a lot lower in ABV

@SkunkyBrew 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Ahh, ok. Thanks!

@manatoa1 3 жыл бұрын

I can't think of another beer style that showcases malt, hop, and yeast flavours (all at the same time) as well as bitter. "Synergy" is an overused word, but I've got to agree with the brewer here.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Haha, I totally agree! The Bitter is the definition of balance between all four ingredients.

@jameslanaghan93 3 жыл бұрын

Is best bitter making a come back?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

You bet it is! So many new breweries making them, which I really hope will also help the traditional brewers of it too. There's a whole world of beer out there that geeks have dismissed for a long time.

@jameslanaghan93 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel would you say it's going to be a return to the traditional back street pubs?

@BiscuitGeoff 3 жыл бұрын

No shade to Five Points but TCBC goes all over the world yet thinks the UK is London?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 3 жыл бұрын

We have rarely made films in London for exactly this reason, but due to Lockdown we have only left it once or twice. We hope to start travelling again after the 17th May opening.

@BiscuitGeoff 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Ah, I feel bad now. Too many beers and a long, irritable conversation led to that unnecessary needle. Apologies.

@cudden22 3 жыл бұрын

Came here to point out the idiotic comment after listening to the podcast. Good job using your brain Geraint...