I’d only tried Summer Lightening in bottle before and I’m convinced it’s got more hop character. Having tried it from cask recently I couldn’t wait to try my Homebrew clone again and I’m giving myself an extra 0.1 on the review because it’s actually a lot closer to the cask version than I realised. The recipe I used clearly was a clone of the cask version. Happy days! 😃

Nightcap beer, a sessionable Homebrew clone of Summer Lightning by Hopback Brewery. It’s safe to say this is on the sweet side of the Maris otter malt profile. My guess is, it’s due to the low flavour and aromas coming from the hops. Bitterness is good, it lingers well and is in balance, there’s just not enough punch form the EKGs… easy brewing this, happy to do it again but I think I’d load up the flameout hops more and may even dry hop, as I’m sure Hopback probably do. Not a bad beer, just not quite on the mark.