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I dont have the bible; which is odd because I have tons of brewing and beer related books and its a popular choice. Perhaps I should get it next time im in a book buying mood.

I suppose we have to remember the poor quality of ingredients available to Dave when we wrote the book: Hops would have been old and horrific (thus the huge quantities) and even though he specifies Brewers Yeast, it wouldn't be what we have available to us now. So with the saccharin tablets I...

I've had a play with Dave Lines recipe in Brewfather. As he gives set weights for the ingredients and not percentages I've had to mess around with it a bit to match my brewhouse efficiency. Ive messed about a lot with the hop additions as a) he uses a hop extract and b) his additions are crazy...

I've got they somewhere, I'll dig it out and have a look, thanks.

I've looking for a Newkie Brown clone recipe, to recreate how it tasted when I started drinking it around 1986. Ive seen a few, but none of them appear to contain sugar, which I'm convinced the original did, caramel at the very least because they recently removed it from the recipe to satisfy...

No, it's not a typo, and I've noticed absolutely no difference in beer quality.

I've really taken to shorter boil times. In some of my historical recipes, I've dropped the boil time down to as low as 90 mins from about an hour and a half.

We are considering one of these for our new pub / outside kitchen that we are in the process of building, so I'll watch this thread with interest

Smallest - 5L Largest - 25L

Do you can your homebrew, or does it work with bottles?

I'm not convinced that leaving more space at the top of the bottle increases the likelihood of bottle bombs : bottle bombs can happen in two situations - a) too much yeast consumable sugar in the beer (either from overpriming or fermentation not being complete when the beer was bottled) causing...

Stupidly, I've run out of Chev. So I'll have to go for some mix of Warminster Marris Otter and Mild malt.

Well it's arrived, and isn't bread yeast :laugh8: so I'd better get brewing the base beer. Probably looking at late Victorian KKK inspired thing, pale malts, bit of maize, but of #1 invert ~ 7-8%, lots of Golding for 80ish IBU.

Don't put too much store in the "notes" I have stored in my head: these days they can prove to be unreliable.

Unfortunately, I don't order from GeB (absolutely nothing against them whatsoever , it's just I get all my malt in bulk elsewhere or with hops from CML) so it was looking a bit pricy once you factored in delivery, so I thought I'd take a punt on ebay. Probably end up with bread yeast or...

I've ordered some SafBrew BR-8 from an ebay seller as it seems hard to find in the UK. So, hopefully some Bretted keeping pale ale will be on the cards. Probably a KKKK, that I'll split between 4 demijohns (one plain, one Brett, one oak, one oak and Brett)

Do you have anything on the end then a long piece into the Klarstein F that, to stop the wort tunnelling through the grain bed? Thinking of trying a similar thing.

You have to approach a hobby like any other hobby; remember, it's a hobby and meant to be fun. athumb..

I remember when they were deliberately unpleasant to some of the low level CAMRA beer festival organisers in order to kick up a fuss, and generate "Yeah!!!! Punks!!!!! Giving it to the old farts at CAMRA!!!" type headlines, forgetting that it was probably just someone's Gran volunteering to run...

I use CML House (s-33) and the Beior / Celtic yeast together as my standard strain. Rips through wort, flocs well, nice taste, cheap as chips.