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I'm about to try bottling with a second bucket for the first time. I'm splitting a batch between bottles and a 5L can, shall I avoid using the second bucket for the can and just go straight from FV? And then use the second bucket for the bottles?

Where would one source this Kveik from?

Sounds perfect!!

I may try that down the road. At the moment I'm looking for options without having to invest much in new gear.

Thanks for the advice guys! much appreciated and lots of options to consider. My current strategy is brew as much now in winter to keep over summer, but I do really enjoy it so don't want to wait till November to start brewing again. acheers.

Apologies if this has been asked before and please point me in the direction if it has. My question is, what could I brew when temps start climbing in a couple months time? I live in Spain and while it's cold right now, from March on the temperature will start rising and the coolest part of my...

Wouldn't zest make it really bitter???

Great, thanks for the tip about keeping them apart, I was thinking of planting Cascade & Chinook so will keep them away from each other :)

Yeah the water here is very hard too! I tend to use bottled for brewing because of the chlorine content of the tap. I have a couple of plants that will only take rain/distilled water so I'll do that with the hops too. Only problem with rain water is that it's quite scarce here! haha so I think...

Great thanks! what type of water do you use? Distilled or just plain old tap water??

Been looking for threads on growing your own hops as it's something I plan to do this spring. Was wondering how the progress is growing on this thread? I had noticed someone saying that hops are not grown in southern Europe but they are grown in León and Cataluña which are not as hot as southern...

Sounds interesting! I love messing about in the kitchen so may give it a whirl

Newby question here. Is a "hop tea" as it sounds? Basically I make a brew with hops instead of tea leaves??

Has anyone ever used the 10% Iodine solution that you can use to disinfect wounds? I know it will most likely dye plastic stuff brown but if you can live with that I guess it would be a viable alternative.

used to work in a Whethers kitchen, wouldn't touch the food with a barge pole

Nope, definitely not just a Scottish thing. I grew up in Buxton and started boozing at the same time. Pubs were smoke filled drinking dens as you say. While I personally am glad they're now smoke free (I'm asthmatic) I do miss a "proper" pub. I think the blame lies a lot with supermarkets...

That canning machine looks like fun!!!

Beans it is then! Just realised from the post and your profile you're from Macc, I'm a Buxton lad!! acheers.

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, would that simply be making a black coffee and chucking it in?

Yeah, I had a rant about it too on our blog. Without going into too much detail I felt it was a missed opportunity, instead of showing how being a vegan is possible they decided to stretch the truth to push an agenda, which I thought was disappointing. But that's my view, if it worked for you...