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i am presuming it does - as its a very high attenuation yeast at 85% - so i am hoping its a proper hungry-hippo and will chew through it all. If not, I might put some wine yeast in the secondary. Will take a gravity reading once its in the secondary to check. It's looking a good purple black in...

AG146 Belgian Black and now for something completely different! inspired by the brewdog recipe for AB12 Imperial black Belgian ale, but not wanting something quite as alcoholic, i decided to modify the recipe for something a bit more drinkable and using up what i had left in various cupboards...

Yes, rose blackberry wine. If I want a red, I usually do it with elderberries and ferment it fully on the fruit for a week or so, then rack it to a DJ after primary is complete

Interested to know why it's a bonkers method - leaving the fruit to macerate in highly sugared water is good for extraction of fruit juices.

Moment of truth, 5 months on and it's bottling time. It's been wracked once and is lovely a bright and clear. Always put a few in clear bottles just because I like how they look. They live in the cellar, so it's always dark in there so no worries with UV degredation Did it need finings? Nope...

However in other news, the el Dorado IPA is a hit. It always is

Bugger I've done another brew after the cascade saison and it's sat in the FV and about ready to be bottled... But I haven't a clue what it is now, as for some unfathomable reason I haven't written it down or written it up here! I know it's an IPA of some type, as i screwed up my last hb order...

So it's lost 38% in 2 years and however many miles For comparison you can buy a ford Kuga for the same £42k (FFS it's a ford!) And it will lose 32% if you do 10k miles per year Or 33% if it's a BMW 320d Or if you want really good depreciation look at the DS4 or DS7 from Citroen. Ds4 opera for...

Contact anaphylaxis to yeast would be extremely extremely rare, but not impossible As the yeast used by the kit will be genetically almost identical to the yeast you are exposed to every day around fruit and veg, plus any more craft wines you may have drink historically over the years (not all...

That's interesting and not something I had considered before. So as I mash at 66 or 67c for the majority of my brews, what effect would it actually have if the mash was 65 (-1) or 68 (+1) in that range? I don't know of a online calc thing that would say the impact

I indirectly work with green hydrogen on the IT side and it's certification

Stop letting facts get in the way of a good anti skateboard/hoover/hairdryer rant They are EEEEEVIL Bring on the hydrogen Honestly, my FB page is full of this and literally 3/4 of them think that the honda mirai or the new BMW 7 series hydrogen car are actually ICE that uses hydrogen like...

Can't beat a saison yeast for a quick turnaround First taste test. It's alright Not massively saison like with the 'murican hops, but it's still got a good saison after taste. Lovely and bright already

No they won't. They will be converted to hydrogen fuel stations, for the luddites that think EVs are evil, but then drive an EV charged by a hydrogen fuel cell and costs 4x as much to run.... But they get to 'refuel it' like a proppa car Never mind it will have a similar range to an EV, have...

I make sure I only have the bottom 2" of the probe submerged as I don't know how waterproof the actual head of the probe is

Nelson sauvin Blurgh... It has no redeeming features at all, used as either a smash or mixed with the usual hop pairings. I can tell it's there straight away and blurghhhhhhh Same if it's used in commercial beers, blurgh

Welcome, I'm just a short hop below Leeds, so another northern brewer. Nowt wrong with constantly changing, I think I did about 50 brews before I settled on some firm favourites. Even then, I still tweak the recipe each time i do it

People. I'm at the age where being hopeful that people aren't all generally flawed hopeless idiots is wearing thin. And yes I count myself in that group, as I am well aware I am also an *****.

Nowt wrong with keeping it simple. I'm on all grain brew 143 using a £60 Chinese made tea urn and a cheapy biab bag. And would guess 100 of those brews using a home made chiller made from some 6mm copper pipe I bent to shape around a lemonade bottle with some garden hose offcuts clamped on the...

It doesn't take time really, as you don't have to watch it. Whilst my water is heating, I measure out my ingredients (Inc hops). 5 mins Go back out after a while and Mash in and wrap the boiler up, 5 mins Give it a stir after 30 mins and have a tidy up, 5 mins Pull the grain and sit the bag in a...