Recent content by 531Man

It's fermentor to cask transfer day for my Hoppy Bitter. I'm hoping it will drop clearer than this, it usually does with this yeast. Recovered Nottingham. Not quite as dark as I'd hoped, but it'll do. At least it's not a pale ale, but I didn't want to over crystal malt it and overwhelm the...

😂👍😂 Guerilla hop planting, love it! Good thing hops are an indigenous weed, or you would be prosecuted for wantonly propagating an introduced alien species! 😂👽👍

My 3 Prima Donnas, showing combinations ofall those growth patterns @Northern_Brewer ; 20°S.of E. wall. 1. A triplet just got away from being 'checked' max. 2' (plus pole with a wigwam extension on top). 2. Other side of that same pole with highest bine at 6' 1", and a couple of 'checked'...

Ah, you got in first! Sorry to butt in😔

Interesting set of hop variety wigwams you have there. Yesterday I did a single approximation of your sectional hop stick method for my Prima Donnas. As to, 'redsel eastwell' - that sounded like a Goldings selection, and indeed it is. This from Ed's beer site, " qq16 August 2017 at 18:19...

Mine and SWMBOD'Ss preprandial. Phew it's been a bit scorchio today. Gardening for both of us (different gardens), then I've been on an evening 11 mile cycle ride. Like I needed the exercise! Mine's my Camden Amber ale, her's is an Italian Primitivo before the lamb is ready. Checking the...

I know the reason for the clean machine hands......... Mr H, I reckon you mash-in by hand mixing, keeps the hands trim, the skin exfoliated and the undernails scoured out. I do the same with bread making, sometimes the nails are so ingrained with mechanical grime I find I have to mix up a...

You really, really don't want to know.

Speedos!? We don't need no steenkin Speedos! I don't have to show you any stinking Speedos! Vamos!

Well I finished it, but I must say I've drunk tastier BEERS brewed with New World hops for those fruity flavours, and they have aromas to match - this just didn't. SWMBOd wrinkled her nose at it!

That's more like it, she says! And SWMBO'D is currently preparing Trout with almonds and a butter sauce, which hopefully will be a good match. 🥂

Offspring generations gone, so: Now the beer can start to flow. This was a Christmas present, so thought it would suit the change in the weather. X-PARROT by Brew York. Citra and Mosaic allegedly and lashings of pineapple, guava, mango, pink grapefruit and lime juices. SWMBOd's comment is...

They were just the decorations! There were a couple of bigger helium shiny type and half a dozen of the pump up type with 1's and stars on for when she arrived for entertainment outside and playing with later inside and with the presents. It was quite swirly windy and we didn't want to lose...

1st grandchild's 1st birthday set up in our garden. Just the family members need to appear, soon we hope. Tea will be the hardest liquor served - until they've all gone that is !

Steering you away from the music playlist topic onto the Aurora thread. When I was on night O/C in the mid to late 80's I completely failed to observe the Aurora Borealis when in the pitch black walking from the nurses residence to the hospital rear entrance. If only I had known to look upwards...