Finished bottle with simulated vintage label A couple of years ago, I received Robert Pattinson's book The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer . as a gift from a family member. The first of the recipes that caught my attention (and I really can't tell you why) was the 1933 Lees Bitter recipe. I tried to brew it once, earlier in my brewing career, and ended up tossing it out because the caps I used didn't seal properly on the bottles. This left the beer flat and oxidized. This is my second go at the recipe. It is a simple recipe, the ingredients aren't too expensive, and the process straightforward. It also sounds like a fairly easy beer to drink, a good one for the upcoming summer months. I recently lost a whole lot of my homebrew to an infection that went undiscovered for months. I'm fairly certain the infection came from a bottling wand used on the infected batches. I replaced it and used the new one to bottle my recent Belgian Dubbel....