Each month we look up to the moon and see how our current experience stands in its wake.
Sarah Sinclair20 September 2021
Trends dictate that we should brew a NEIPA so that’s exactly what we did. Only the ‘NE’ stands for Nelson, not to be confused with the New England IPA which…
Sarah Sinclair20 September 2021
The UK craft scene has come a long way in the past ten years, and breweries setting up shop today face a very different set of challenges, writes Sarah Sinclair…
Sarah Sinclair1 September 2021
Nicci Peet catches up with the breweries setting up shop during Covid’s lost year for Ferment. ...In January 2020, almost a year before Lakes Brew Co. found its premises, Moonwake…
Sarah Sinclair23 July 2021
Our director Fin has a penchant for dark beers, all year round, no matter the weather. So convincing his partner – who wasn’t really a beer fan of any hue…
Sarah Sinclair8 July 2021
There are several unanswerable questions in the craft beer world. We have tried our hand at a couple already so here we go again. Pale Ale and IPA: What’s the difference? The definitions of Pale Ale…
Sarah Sinclair10 June 2021
Our Lehui 3-vessel brew kit from SSV Limited arrived from its long voyage and looks slick against our Moonwake mural. We're looking to commission our brew kit 3 weeks from…
Sarah Sinclair7 May 2021
We chatted to the Hop Forward Podcast about Moonwake's origin story Already a year in the making, Moonwake Beer Co based in Leith, Edinburgh, spent January 2021 lockdown awaiting delivery…
Sarah Sinclair4 May 2021
Craft beer crawl from Edinburgh city centre down to the Leith shore. We are lucky to be joining a burgeoning and ever-growing beer scene in Edinburgh so we have put…
Sarah Sinclair26 April 2021
What exactly is craft beer? A highly debated point throughout the brewing world and beyond. Firstly, in pursuit of scholarly excellence, we will define our terms: Craft: 1: skill in making things especially with the hands. 2: an…
Sarah Sinclair8 April 2021
