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AG155 Olicana English IPA This is a new hop to me, and i was keen to try this out as a SMASH to get a feel for what its like. So kept this one stupid simple 3.5kg Maris Otter 18l mash at 66c for 60mins with a 3l rinse sparge Leaving 19l wort for a 60 minute boil and 15l in the FV. Hops 10gm...

AG154 Amarillo IPA I love a bit of Amarillo, and it goes very well with Centennial - and as i have an abundance of both - lets get a brew on! 4kg Maris Otter 25gm roasted barley 100gm crystal 30EBC 18l mash at 66c for 60mins with a 5l rinse sparge Leaving 21l wort for a 30 minute boil and...

In fact you could do a dozen brew easily just using the 'summer pale ale' recipe above and just change the yeast. The difference between using notty, s-04, London ESB, bell-saison, cali-common, blahblah is quite remarkable when you consider the rest of the ingredients are identical

Keep it simple and do a English summer pale ale, Pale malt and about 50gm challenger, (or fuggles or east Kent goldings), split across 60min and 10min additions. Use gervin 'nottingham' yeast Voila, simple and very forgiving brew that will always make a pleasing pint - if we ever get a...

Agree but not agree... I'm taking 100gm of light crystal in a 3.5kg grain bill, and it's not for sweetness or take away the dryness, but more for a bit of body in what is otherwise just a smash brew.

Saisons suit simple ingredients - as generally the yeast will kill off anything you are trying to do to be clever. Simple pale malt, maybe a bit of crystal and then some noble hops and let that temp spiral out of control to peak in the high 20's Wouldn't bother with mandarina Bavaria, you...

Bear claws 🐻

The problem with this study is twofold and it paints a misrepresentation to anyone reading it. Firstly the Volvo is extremely inefficient. Tesla model Y gets basically double the efficiency so halves the KM to break even Secondly, Volvo does not take in to account anything but tailpipe...

AG153 Ermmmm, beer Bit of an unusual one, in that i have burnt my notebook to a crisp and lost the recipe for this one and i genuinely cant remember much other than it had some summit in it and one other hop. Basically i was playing with my stirling engine on my desk and spilt some fuel and...

Totally agree and I don't use carb calc tables either, suppose what I meant is carbing for style. So for ales I use a metal 1/2tsp measuring spoon and that gives what I want, but for saisons I will use the 1tsp spoon and give it a little tap to make it just under 1tsp of sugar. But my point...

If it's definitely finished and you are only using 1/4-1/2 TSP sugar and you get a whole brew that's lively, then it's an infection in the primary or your bottle cleaning process causing something to cause late stage fermentation and additional co2 That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's...

I quite like early songs of hers, shake it off gets my foot tapping - but it's all very middle of the road un-objectional radio pop fodder. There are thousands like her, she was just lucky with how the moon and stars aligned, as is always the way with fame. Add in some extremely talented music...

I 'rinse' sparge, which consists of dumping the biab bag in my spare fv along with 5l of water and give the bag a good wiggle with my plastic paddle, then leave it to soak till the remaining wort is about to boil Pull the bag out and give it a good squeeze and pour the 5l of sparge water +...

[whispers quietly] I quite like lost lager [/hangs head in shame]

Yep, completely optional, but on the knowledge that if they didn't install it they wouldn't know about extra shifts on offer. I literally only use WhatsApp for work, it has 6 threads (if that's what it's called) for different customers and escalation teams and only use it for work. If anyone...

When I was in a people manager role, I asked each member of the team if they agreed to be added to a WhatsApp group, When extra shifts became available I would post it up and if anyone wanted it they could reply. Never EVER contacted anyone directly when they weren't actually on the clock...

having some fun with AI and have a few more labels for my recent brews

AG152 Summit IPA finally getting around to re-doing this one - but properly this time with a good dose of hops 3.5kg Maris Otter 18l mash at 66c for 60mins with a 5l rinse sparge Leaving 21l wort for a 30 minute boil and 18l in the FV. Hops 10gm summit @ 30 mins 35gm summit @ flameout 40gm...

AG151 anti-Brexit Saison One for the pro union people on here - a french farmhouse saison using east kent goldings for the hops - hehehehe 3kg Maris Otter 150g crystal 113ebc 18l mash at 66c for 60mins with a 3l rinse sparge Leaving 19l wort for a 30 minute boil and 16l in the FV. e Hops...

Goddamit. Totally forgot about this brew, mistaking it for the English ales in ag149. So it's not had a dry hop and needs bottling Oh well, it will be a not very hoppy IPA. BUT. I'm going to recover 2 yeast batches and use one immediately for a really hoppy IPA (probably bittered with...