The Perfect Keg: Sowing, Scything, Malting & Brewing My Way to the Best-Ever Pint of Beer

What is the perfect keg? For Ian Coutts it was a barrel full of beer he’d made himself. Not from a kit like many homebrewers. Not from industrial malts and yeasts like most commercial brewers. No, from absolute scratch. That meant barley and hops he’d grown, yeast he’d captured in the wild and malt he’d made himself. The only additives were knowledge and history. He learned a lot, brewed a lot and drank a lot of beer, overcoming mishaps and misadventures until ultimately he had it—the perfect keg.