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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe next step was the purchase of a 20 litre all grain kit and his home brewing career began. Rob got himself trained, persevered with the brewing and found that people liked his beer. \u201cThere was one I did in wood that really went down well,\u201d said Rob. \u201cI thought about doing something bigger and eventually purchased a 100 litre kit from Powell Brewery. Fortunately, my parents had a large shed at the back of their house and I took up residence there, installing the kit and getting my first beer into a pub in October 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The brewery is compact and every bit of space is used, with fridges at the back to store beer and hops. There is a 130 litre kettle, two fermenters, which have glycol cooling jackets, and probably the tiniest heat exchanger ever. \u201cI buy 25 kg of malt a time and use \u2018Get \u2018er Brewed\u2019 (a brewery supply company), whose services are targeted at home brewers and tiny breweries. I have made my own gizmo for sparging,\u201d Rob explained. He also has a home made cask cleaner! Rob uses both pellets and whole leaf hops. The water is from Thames Water. \u201cI have to treat the water as it is very high in carbonates. Fortunately, it is fairly stable so I only test it every couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAll of the draught beer is real ale and is sold mostly in firkins with a few pins. Mutineers also does bottles, which are hand filled, and Rob has trialled mini kegs as well. However, this didn\u2019t help during lockdown as the brewery does not have an off licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rob tends to plough any profits into the business, continuing to invest and improve the brewery. Rob\u2019s wife is a chiropractor and they have two children so a steady income is important. Consequently, despite his love for brewing, Rob still works four days a week for the BBC as an engineer and brews every Friday. He starts brewing around 8pm, which is late for most breweries. \u201cI would start earlier,\u201d said Rob, \u201cBut I am usually assisted by Adam Miller, who is the manager of the Cockpit in Chislehurst, and so, with his late finishes, he needs his rest!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cockpit is a micropub and is CAMRA\u2019s Bromley Branch\u2019s Pub of the Year for 2023. The pub shares the space with a florist (no quips about floral hops!). Adam recently brewed his very first own beer which has a really quirky name: \u2018Hopman Versus Cybernetic Space Apes\u2019. The beer\u2019s name is in keeping with Mutineer\u2019s ethos of naming most of their beers after rebellions, battles and those who challenge the status quo. These include Suffragette, Emu War, Black Flag, Bill Stickers and Filibuster. The designs have recently been changed and updated; they are now all black and white. \u201cMy aim was to distinguish them from the multi-coloured labels that abound,\u201d said Rob. He designs them himself and then passes them to a friend who does the artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nRob is looking to develop a core range and, in due course, may consider getting his more popular brews contract brewed to allow him to use the tiny brewery to keep experimenting. But Rob wants to keep his outlets local. He loves talking to people. So, almost four years on, what does Rob make of his business? \u201cIt\u2019s a hobby that went terribly wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CAMRA\u2019s London Tasting Panel had a delightful visit to the Cockpit and Mutineers\u2019 tasting notes can be found in the brewery section of the regional website, www.london.camra.org.uk. To find out more about the brewery, go to https:\/\/mutineers.beer<\/a> and for the pub www.thecockpitchislehurst.co.uk.<\/a> It all started when Rob Vote decided that he would like to know how to brew and attended a one day course at London Fields Brewery. It turned out to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewery-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Christine Cryne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"