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So after trying my hand at a succession of kits late last year and early this year, and following up with some extract recipes more recently, I finally got around to my first ever AG brew yesterday. I'd committed to doing an ESB and after much perusing of different recipes I decided to take the...

Made my first foray away from kit brewing at the weekend. Only an extract recipe but it did involve a mash and boil for the first time and went pretty well I think. In honour of a recent trip to Belgium I based the recipe on Greg Hughes’ Belgian Dubbel. A decent size bag mash of Special B and...

This was a Christmas present, I asked for a cheaper kit that I could customise. Made this one-can kit up with light spray malt instead of sugar to get a decent OG of 1050. This kit comes with a hop extract sachet and advises you can choose the amount to add. I added about 3/4 of the sachet as...

My 4th kit batch was started just after Christmas. Two cans of rich dark gloop gave a starting gravity of 1044 (seems a touch low, maybe I didn't stir very well). No hop additions and it plateaued out a touch high at 1016 (only 6g yeast I think?) to give a notional 3.68% ABV before carbonation...

The third and final of my pre-Christmas brews after a 25 year absence from making my own beer. I though I might just sneak it in for Christmas - started on 23rd Nov and was bottling by 2nd Dec - very quick. QC after a week in bottles and drinking properly from 15th Dec. This one is a simple kit...

This looks interesting but I'm waiting for someone to invent the AI that removes Gregg Wallace from TV programmes.

The second kit made before Christmas and after a 25 year absence from making my own beer. It includes 3kg of extract as well as 650g dextrose to up the ABV a bit. The OG was 1050 and I bottled at 1010 after 13 days with an ABV of about 5.25%. I tasted on bottling and thought it was good but not...

As a near beginner I thought I’d post some kit reviews which other new starters / re-starters might find useful. This was the first kit I made on my return to home brewing before Christmas. Kits have got better since I last made one 25 years ago - 3Kg of extract (no bag of Silver Spoon) and...

Hi everyone After several months lurking and picking up lots of valuable knowledge (thanks all!) I thought I should actually join. I'm in my 3rd era of homebrewing. In the 80s I was in a short-lived student homebrew syndicate, kit brewing from the usual suspects. I didn't get custody of the...