Simon Buckley's new column in the Journal

Simon Buckley, chief executive of Evan-Evans brewery, has a new monthly column in the Carmarthen Journal (see page 7 of the Out and About section this week).
What’s brewing?
A new (monthly) column by Simon Buckley, chief executive of Llandeilo’s Evan-Evans Brewery, brewers of the award winning Cwrw ale.
This column is about beer and what makes the oldest industry in the world such a fascinating place to work. This week it’s cask beer.
Easter is here, and traditionally this is the beginning of the tourist season, when we brewers start to produce new lighter beers to mark the transition from winter to Spring and then summer.
Tourists come looking for local beers and new seasonal variants.
The craft brewing industry produces some of the finest beers in Wales. You won’t like all of them, and sometimes brewers get carried away producing tonsil-cleansing bitterness, and beers that have over-powering flavours.
Find the ones you like and don’t be frightened to try new ones. You don’t have to have a second one!
So what makes the beers different?
Water of course is the main ingredient of beer. The very best beers like the finest food can only be created from the best raw materials.
Each brew has its own recipe where the brewers blend a series of different malts, to create the backbone of the beer, to which then are added a cocktail of hops to give bitterness and fresh fruity flavours.
Spring beers will be lighter, crisp , will be brewed with subtle blends of roasted malts, and hops that give a lighter more spicy character, so that the overall flavour is a rounded full-bodied beer.
Beers to look out for - Newman’ Spring Cottage Biscuit and Evan-Evans Spring Fever. Next time we will look at four of the best bottled beers in Wales.