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Cheers! I'll report progress / screw ups here. First "wash", yeast sunk. Drained liquid from top the usual capillary way. Topped up with water. Rinse repeat about 4-5 times over next days...

First step, yeast slush collected, added water. Put in an airlock in case it's still active. Three or four washes before the experiment...

Mine's bottled and sending it off Monday... fingers crossed!

Can someone tell me why the general advice is to have no lid during the boil? Isn't it a good way to keep some aromas in?

Add some oatmeal (soaked, baked in the oven) to make it smoother and take the edge off some of the spices.

I think the yeast is washable -- whatever bitter there is in the slush, it's going to be soluble.

Just came across this blog post on how to make marmite at home from the yeast slush after a brew: http://www.msmarmitelover.com/2011/04/how-to-make-your-own-marmite.html Anyone seen this? Tried this? (Sorry if it's been discussed before) Note at the bottom is important: wash the yeast...

Today made an experimental prickly pear and sharon fruit amber ale, with: 1kg fruit added to mash, 1kg fruit added to boil. First wort hop: fresh Challenger from the garden. Bittering: Citra and Chinook Aroma: Willamette, Motueka, Simcoe Dry hopping -- will be Citra and Chinook...

Came across an even better deal on water. A local Turkish shop has 5L jugs of the brand "Saka" for 99p.

Looks like a very interesting fruity and tropical hop range. Curious how this one turns out.

Some worms here and there, but cut away. I'm afraid I have ruined their delicious homes.

This year's apple crop from the garden all used for cider. Got a decent pH at 3.4 and SG at 1055-60. Used campden, pectolase, yeast nutrient and a blend of two yeasts: the mangrove jack and the lalvin 71B-1122. As a final touch, some bourbon wood chip.

Sorry -- don't know why pictures came out sideways

The Asda Eden Falls 5L jugs are the cheapest mineral water I've seen at �£1,06 per jug. https://groceries.asda.com/product/still-water/asda-eden-falls-still-natural-mineral-water/19029 There's an added bonus that these jugs can be easily converted to fermenters, like so;

Gosh indeed -- almost forgot about what pubs are. Just one comment of Protz stood out and he was expressing some distant surprise at the "popularity" of "IPAs". But at the end of the talk, he also indicate that he doesn't know what direction will be next, but open to hearing ideas. Perhaps...

Listened to his one twice. Protz is no doubt a very interesting man and Camra have done great things for ale: But, apart from the brewdog controversy, I detected something of an ambivalence to the homebrew movement and the experimentation involved. Forgive me for being a noob here, but can...

One of the British bake off contestants recently make a g&t flavoured cake. His trick was to boil and reduce the tonic down to the syrup and apply that to the recipe. I imagine that technique might work better for the beer than merely adding tonic straight to the wort.

I got two plants from a farm in Kent, one Progress and one Challenger. I admit I can't tell them apart now !

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to have found this community. I'm Benjamin, a writer and editor in Southgate in North London. I started brewing this spring with a starter kit from the Brooklyn Brew Shop, and I've really enjoyed gradually learning more while expanding equipment, recipes with...