Recent content by Sandimas

A great beer that, a real tasty brew - must make it again.

Near Malvern last night, camera picked out the colours nicely but the first time I've seen an aurora.

TU de G0Hxx More hams on here than I would have thought / expected athumb..

On Sunday I found a rogue Challenger rhizone so re-planted it on the opposite side of the path where the other end of the arch support structure is. In 48hrs it's grown enough to almost reach the support bines. Happy days - more free hops

Don't worry too much about not knowing the AA for your home-grown Cascade, there's a fairly narrow range for the British variety 5.3-6.8% so plumping for say 6% in your calculations and you won't be far off. I do this with my own home-grown Cascade. Really simple recipe I use: 95% Pale Malt, 5%...

End of April and the Styrian Goldings are the clear winners, already at the top of the supports Challenger are playing catch-up but are now on the go Cascade are barely out of the soil and not even onto the supports yet :-( Been a very dull/cold spring so maybe that's the reason? Be...

If your stockpot will fit in the oven with the shelves removed, stick it on minimum and put the mash in there - that's what I do and it helps keep the temp constant.

Good recipe that, I've always used malted wheat and it comes out fine. In fact you've just prompted me to make it again.

Last year was interesting and probably the worst year so far for me: the Styrian Goldings & Challenger had a nice early growth spurt but the dry spell in late Spring made them all shrivel up. They recovered to a degree, but the Cascade had a more linear growth and was the best in 2023...

No sign of my Cascade yet which is a bit worrying, although they do grow at different rates : my Challenger is about 2ft high but the clear winner so far is these Styrian Goldings, they look about 5ft high, could reach the top of the support by the end of the month. Edit: just found the...

I'm not far from you, sad to hear that Pops is calling it a day, he started me off home brewing 13 years ago: my first brew was his made-up kit Golden Citrus Blast. With Wilko going too, there is nothing locally. The Malt Miller is down at Swindon is you don't mind a bit of a drive. Other than...

I prefer to bottle my stouts, in fact I'll be doing one this weekend if it's finished fermenting.

Was going to suggest Cacao Nibs (available from Tesco etc), which I've just added to my stout, but see you've gone with cocoa.....let us know how it turns out.

My cousin's first car was a Viva he customised, got some bits off a Viva GT in the scrapyard (inc bonnet with scoops), fitted sidepipes, jacked it up with Range Rover springs and painted it gold underneath. Was a bit of a beast but came to an untimely end: it was jacked up so much that when he...

Same here. I had the coupe just like this one, loved that car but it disintegrated into a pile of rust very quickly. This was my 2nd car, first was a Mk.1 Ford Escort which also rusted to bits. After that I bought new, a Ford XR2.....which also rusted to bits!