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Depends if I'm in a rush to go to Tesco later. :) But usually 60

There is no wisdom at Four Priests, conventional or otherwise :) I have learned this past year that conventional wisdom, common-known-fact, commonplace knowledge and common belief are very often nonsense. Your fermenter develops an immediate and incurable Victorian infection if you have a peep...

Or sometimes 13 or 16 at my place. Depends on the day job. Precision brewing at its best.

I can only tell you how I do it Rod, I haven't seen the CML instructions. Should be broadly the same I think! I dry hop day 5, then on day 10 add auxiliary finings and crash to 4C. Usually rack on day 14 but sometimes a bit early, sometimes a bit late :) Hops stay in until I dig them out of...

Hi mate, dry hop goes in on day 5.

:) I see you let it settle for a few seconds after delivery. haha, Cheers mate.

It's changing fast, I'm tracking a few breweries responses to their increasing costs and that £75 firkin is becoming around £100 in the past few days. I guess as the 2023 bills have started to arrive for malt and utilities... Still some breweries pushing it out at £65 ish but I fear for their...

My first experience of Talus was in Wild Brew Co’s Wild IPA and I loved it. For the Murgy trial batch it was half of the hops the other half was Citra. All T90. When we dry hopped with 50/50 Citra/Talus split there was definitely a soapiness from the talus so we changed the ratio. We have about...

Most small breweries will also have licensing for direct sale to the public. They'll know when you talk to them, Some will be just trade and no licence for sales to the public. Basically if they're selling bottles or cans direct then there's nothing to stop them selling in cask or keg either...

Thank you!

I would expect at the various points in the supply chain that it's on the seller of the product to determine if VAT needs to be applied by them. Is it really on the homebrew buyer to make that determination? I don't know. Doesn't feel like it should be. Buying grain for our business from the...

Explain please? You can't charge VAT unless you're a VAT registered business. Well you can, but there's no means to pass it on to HMRC. So you'd just be charging 20% more and keeping it.

Been down this road a few times now.... FP is not VAT registered so we pay VAT on purchases and dont charge VAT on sales. For commercial brewing ingredients, most are zero rated so VAT is not on the invoice from the supplier, or it's a zero value line. For obvious homebrewing products, the...

Clarence for Prime Minister!

https://beernouveau.co.uk/2023-brewery-closures/

Yep. And it's happening now. Look for Steve at Beer Nouveau's list of closures. Even a moderately hopped ale, my main one for example, the hops are expensive but the duty is a bigger portion. I don't think I'm revealing any secrets, I've talked about it before, but the batch ingredient cost for...

Having done the maths, for our particular model the increase in grain price is (surprisingly) not a significant burden. e.g. on a typical cask run, the new 2023 grain prices add about £1.70 per 9G cask. We could swallow that. The utility prices and increased rent add about £10 per cask, and as...

We're buying by the tonne direct from the maltster. 40 sacks every couple of months. My 2023 prices compared to 2022 - Pale +31%, Maris Otter +26%, Malted Wheat +29%, Crystals +17%, Oats +27%. Now also charging for delivery which was 'free' in 2022.

After we changed from Trial Batch to Murgy, it's still a bit different than the homebrew. During Trial Batch we got feedback from drinkers which one they preferred and the first one won, in spite of the drier finish and hop difference. The only batch that's different is this current bottle...

A couple of things that caught me out and changed the finished bigger scale product. And yes it did change the beer but both things can be handled. You just have to plan for it. 1) 60 minute mash at home, then sparge doesn't take long if you're doing one. At home I did a full volume mash with...