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Thanks everyone. Protofloc and chiller in the boil, just about to kill the boiler and put in the steeping hops. I realised mid-boil that I only had wheat yeast, so took a trip to see my friend who is a brewer and bought him a pint of Crouch Vale Anchor Street Porter in return for a scoop of...

Amazingly this is my first brewday of the year. Lazy huh? Mash went on at 6pm. The plan is for a pleasantly hoppy session beer that uses up some remnants of grain in an interesting bill, while making the most of some nice homegrown hop reserves I have in the freezer. My yeast options are...

I'm on the verge of kicking off my first brew in a while. Let me know what you think? (more details on my blog) Thinking Bitter Style: English Ale Batch Size: 25.50 L Boil Volume: 36 L Boil Time: 90 min Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 % Ingredients 3.75Kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) 92.4% 100g...

I'm drinking the big shiny one, but I might let some other people drink the little glass jobs

Boring beer, quietly dropping bright before kegging...

No new photos (I've mislaid my camera...), but did keg and bottle the stout yesterday. Tasted ready to drink without bothering to keg, frankly! I used natural priming and will now warm and cold condition until Christmas Eve. Ish. Stout and port anyone? Who's made cheese?

Well that bright green has now turned into gold. My APA is now happy in secondary and is down to the target 1.018 from 1.058. I make that around 5.25% ABV, and will round up to 5.3% to account for priming. Smells fantastic, can't wait until New Year for this one.

:nono: Hang on, hang on! Us soft southerners are the hop heads of the country! I think you'll find we love growing, brewing and supping hops nearly as much as you rock hard northerners love those little placcy beer pump showerheads which rip all the hop taste back out again... :party:

Have fun you lot. I'm probably nearer to a Belgian bar than The Crown. And by that I mean a bar actually in Belgium. I'll expect lots of photos of beer engines etc... on Monday instead :)

Sounds perfect. Bit tight for Christmas, but who knows? :cheers:

It seems to be going very well to be honest, so just leave it as it is. In a few days you could just rack it to a keg and pop a bag of hops in there. Personally I use a further week of secondary in a new sanitised bucket and take that opportunity to dry hop if I am doing it at all. I also find...

Your chiller will also be aided by the fact cold water is so bloody cold right now. US-05 is pretty ruthless. A secondary in a colder place rarely ferments more than a further point however. Nice recipe - are you tempted to dry hop some further Cascade?

I've now added a couple of blurry videos and 20 pictures to my website detailing the APA brewday - I hope they are of use to somebody out there - feel free to leave me some comments if you can be bothered :) All the very best to any of you with brewdays planned today or over the weekend -...

I'm brewing you're not, I'm brewing you're not! Ner ner ner... I'm in a tip top mood because although money is too tight to mention, brewing is free if you have the ingredients and some time off. Rah! So I'm brewing up a premium strength APA using Cascade. It's basically a stronger, more...

Cool! I'm going to buy a new Northern Brewer plant, but not until February I'd imagine.

Good morning beer lovers! As promised, the second and last post detailing how our own hops were amatuerishly harvested, dried and stored is now up on our website, with a dozen or so photos to look at, if you're interested. I can't wait to see the first buds pop through the ground to grow into...

Cheers Wez - I need to add the hop processing photies and then get on with another brewday, but there just don't seem to be enough hours in the days right now...

This got down to below 1.012 in primary. It has been in secondary for nearly a week now, but I've only just got round to posting some photos of the transfer and the yeast harvest, which seemed to go pretty well. It's just chilling in the fridge now, waiting for me to get motivated for another...

Morning. The need to rip down my old hop bines and bed the root systems in for the winter has led me to write a series of blog posts on my personal experience of garden hop growing. I need somewhere to put up all those photos in one splurge. Anyway, the first episode is up - it may prove useful...

Yup. Could do. You'd have to bore out the holes a little as you wouldn't have the required pressure from an HLT, but it's a good shout.