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Hi Guys, Would anyone have a clone recipe for Thwaites Indus pale ale? It is by far one of the nicest ales i`ve tasted in a long time and would love to try and make a batch, especially as the real McCoy is very hard to get over here in Belfast, I only know of one pub that sells it here and well...

Hi guys, Does anyone have an AG recipe for a smoked beer. I`ve never tried a smoked beer and am busting to try one. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Happy brew days guys :thumb:

Hehe..Cheers Dennis...Just a wee question though that`s one of my numbskulls want to ask...I have irish moss for the last 15 mins of the boil....can I still add finings after fermentation?

Hi guys, just started my first AG brew and the smell of malt around the house is amazing...i`m nearly tempted to grab a spoon out of the drawer and start eating the mash....hehe. Just starting off simple with a plain pale ale, gotta walk before you can run. Have a few refinements to make to my...

I just put down two coopers yesterday morning ( Aust. Lager and their English bitter ). I used 1kg of BS for the lager and 500g BS/ 500g LSM for the bitter. It`s all sugar, but the SM adds a wee bit extra to your brew and will slightly darken your finished product.

:rofl: Scott :rofl: , most impotantly I didn`t hurt the alcohol. But thank you for your concern Scott. :thumb: :lol:

hehe. 8 down, they were well and truly downed and with great gusto. Again Ouch!! :sick:

8 more bottles for my collection Davy, mind you, last night was one eye looking at ye and the other trying to find ye and I have the bruises to prove it. Ouch. Got my foot caught in the hoover cable and ended bouncing down the stairs. The word idiot comes to mind Lol.

Hope you dont get in before me, I am always trailing through Guntree and Freecycle for bottles in the Belfast area. Starting at Bars now also lifting them from round the back Here mate, you watch yourself doing that, you could get yourself nicked for doing some unsavoury thing, you know the...

I`m not keen on wheat beers, tried one at the continental market, in the big german tent, left half of it. I do like my pale ales and they have to be hoppy. Want to try a czech dark beer, I was in Prague a couple of years ago and loved their beer. Very similar to the bavarian beers, well then...

I`ll be up in NW tomorrow, I phoned them today to find out if they have any press. barrells and have asked them to hold one back for me, need a new one as the one I have has an air leak on the main body ( it was me da`s so age took it toll I suppose, bit like my da...lol ). I noticed your a...

I just received stuff that I ordered online ( 2 kits, Bs, spraymalt yeast etc. ) from a homebrew place in Co. Laios, £4.50 delivery and pretty reasonable prices. You should check it out Davy, certainly a bigger selection than Natures way, as it`s a dedicated brew store and not 1/2 health shop...

BTW Davy, where do you get your ingredients from, wouldn`t happen to be Natures way on the upp. Newtonards road?

I like a bit of the black stuff myself, I used to do the lidl thing too, unfortunately the nearest lidl to me now closed and now the nearest is a couple of miles away and out of the way. If I remember rightly they used to do a lot of the Badger ales and fairly cheap. Doesn`t seem to be many from...

We`re always on the hunt for bottles davybarman. The most fun way is to just buy loads of bottled beer. I`m drinking that Smithwicks pale ale at the present time, the only problem with doing it that way is the hangovers....OUCH!!

Thanks guys for all your advice, guess i`ll just use the wine bottles for their intended use, i`m planning to make an apple and strawberry wine shortly anyhow. I have thought about using PET bottles Anthony and I probably will, I have 30 or so glass beer bottles. I`ve just finished starting 2...

Hi guys, Can wine bottles take the pressure. Have quite a few empties ( screw tops ) that I want utilise. Don`t want end up with a couple of potential bottle grenades.

Never ever look a gift horse in the mouth. Make the best off what you have. if it`s clear well cover it, stick it somewhere....uumm...dark, it ain`t fooking rocket science. I was hoping for a bit more than clear bottles. Scott `Bout ye big lad, ye ain`t going to get much tatey bread in glasgow `.

One of the quirks i`ve noticed whilst reading a lot of the posts, is that some people have an oddity about using clear glass bottles and will only use brown or green. Fook me, decent re-usable re-cappable glass bottles hare hard to come by at the best of times .

Ok guys, whats your wee quirks when your brewing. For me, I only clean, steralise, brew, bottle/keg in the same t-shirt and knee length shorts ( They are washed..lol ). I have 2 fv`s, marked fv1 & fv2, I would never brew a dark beer in fv1. I would never start a brew on a Sunday. Things like...