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I couldn't resist a taste of my bitter this morning. I'll be bottling it in a couple of days time, but it tastes very promising indeed, good malt and hop flavours, and nice colour, I have high hopes for this one.

i have some sympathy with the OP, I have had similar myself; stouts seemed much more satisfactory than bitters. And then one day, I started brewing decent bitters I was pleased with. But I can't offer any great reasons why, except perhaps to say maybe small improvements in procedure, greater...

But OFGEM *are* the government, with another hat on, really. Governments can and are shielding the public fron the brunt of these rises. I just think, instead of all these 'producers', who can't be allowed to go bust (at great expense), there wasn't much wrong with the old system where everyone...

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Well the bitter seemed to go very well yesterday, ended up with 14.5 litres @ 1050, with a BHE of 70%. Good colour, and nice and clear too. Pitched this morning with S-04.

Bit of a user-upper, based on pilgrimhudd's bitter recipe. (thanks!) Aiming for roughly the same FG of 1049, which implies a BHE of around 66%: For a 14 litre batch: 2940 g MO 70 g Special B 70 g CaraAroma 112 g Melanoidin 70 g Dark Crystal 35 g Choc Malt 11 g Challenger @60 18 g Styrian...

I've worked something out with SG and EKG to give about the same IBU. Never sure how much impact on the IBU flame-out has, though. I haven't got any biscuit either, but am proposing to replace that with melanoidin. I think that's why I had the First Gold in the first place; to do a Smash with...

I could have sworn I had a bag of First Gold that had been hanging around for ages, but I can't find it! I reckon I probably threw them out. Might still go for it with Styrian Goldings and EKG, though.

What's the batch size on the First Gold, pilgrim, is it 23 litres?

A paradigm by the dashboard light? :D

I'd say give it at least another two, preferably three weeks in the bottle before you draw any conclusions.

So I grabbed this tin off the shelf in Lidl, Millionaire Milk Stout. Unfortunately I didn't read the small print on the can. Salted caramel and chocolate? Just don't. Horrible. Well, they can't all be hits!

He shouldn't set foot anywhere again, by rights. But we'll see what the courts have to say.

As far as mls v grams is concerned, you may choose to add 10 ml of a weaker syrup, or 5 ml of a stronger one, but at the end of the day, it's how much sugar is going into each bottle that matters here.

I use a priming syrup too, I like that you can meter the amount of sugar per bottle accurately this way. But I think variations in each brew probably count for more. 4.2 g per bottle sounds a lot to me. Certainly I only use about half that amount of sugar; I vary from 1.7 to 2.3 g per bottle...

Was going to go for a big brew today, but have been slightly put off by the weather; it's a bit warm! Not ideal if you have no cooling facilities. I'm thinking it might be better to do a quick low-tech weiss today, and leave the more delicate bitters until next week whwen it's a bit cooler.

Second try of flavoured wheat beer, this time the tangerine. It's there, but a tad under-powered. I thought the coriander was spot-on, but this could have done with another 50%, I think. Still a pleasant drink that I will hopefully make better, soon. At this time of year, the appeal of a beer...

I racked off my Vienna, gravity was 1010, don't imagine it will drop much lower (and I didn't expect it to drop this far), so will be coming in around the 5.1% ABV mark I think.

Can't you just chuck half a litre of so of water in it?

Had a second taste of my no-chill wheat beer, It suffers a bit by being a tad under-powered (as noted on the thread), but I split the batch up into 'plain', flavoured with coriander, and flavoured with tangerine peel. Just tried a coriander one, and that seems spot-on in terms of the amount of...