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I had that, I just gave them a shake before I put them in the fridge (an hour or 2 before drinking)

Here's some ideas for anyone looking to cheaply and easily brighten up garage/shed/spare room walls: The posters were taken from google images, resized and edited in an image software application, saved as A4 pdf and printed on doxdirect.com for pennies and framed. The beer mats are self...

Print out your own pictures and glue them on!

Beersmith is pretty good, but I find the phone app thing a bit of a con - it should be included in the subscription in my opinion. I pay a yearly subscription fee for the pc app so I'll often just build my recipes etc in the house and print the recipe out, or use my laptop in the garage. The...

What do you make of this???

Not sure about wine/mead but in beer TCP taste is often from chlorinated water. My 1 year+ summer fruits mead tastes like floor cleaner. I am sticking to cider and beer for a while I think.

Little update on the 'hopped cider'... It's is pretty nice, but I wouldn't really call it a cider (it's 40% still lemonade and it's come out more like a hopped lemonade, I guess) and I'm not a fan of the citric acid and sweetener taste - it puts my teeth on edge. I think I'd cut that to x2...

Electronic Piece Of Sh*t system?

Well noticed! I got that from my uni years ago. They set them up.as road signs outside the student union and I claimed one (with permission of course!). It's made of plastic so works a treat. It's funny, I saw a picture of Dizzee's home studio a while bback and he has the smaller version of one...

To answer the OP, I like making smaller batches as I keep my cider in a 10L keg so it seem best to use juice, to me then I can just get what I need.

They underpay farmers and underpay staff in order to try to undercut competitors - driving down quality to achieve the 'lowest price' so they can appease consumers and skim off huge profits for their equally huge bonuses. Personally I try to buy better quality juice for drinking, but for making...

Something I read was that because the chlorine has been stripped from the water so over time pathogens like bacteria, viruses or the fungi that it is there to inhibit could potentially grow. But that also there is virtually nothing in the water for it to feed from so it would be unlikely. Were...

I'd love to try a few of those, but the prices on some of them are eye watering. I know there's some hefty % beers and they are imported and it's the way of the world but it just seems out of order to be selling a 6 pack for 65 quid.

Good advice! That looks a good recipe, and he uses Vienna as well. Might base my recipe off that one with a few of my extra additions. I often fall into that trap of homebrewers I mentioned - i.e. adding too much. Maybe you are right, less is more. I think I will strip it back to chilli, Kaffir...

I was planning a pad thai for my dinner tonight and thought about an idea I've had for a while... Thai-PA An idea this 'good' has got to have been done before, and after a search on google it has, many times, but not quite like how I am planning. I'm thinking a basic pale ale base (my base...

I might get some done. I only usually bottle around 20-30 beers a year to give away as presents or save a few to age. Definitely cheaper options if you are bottling whole batches but for the novelty I think it's worth it. Plus my friend just made me a logo so I have the perfect excuse to show it...

What are you planning on brewing? General advice: get a good no rinse sanitiser like star san or chem san, a litre will last years. Get some sodium percarbonate cleaner (I used to use Vanish Oxi Action from the laundry department in the supermarket - the white one has no perfume) Use the...

Kombucha makers?

I am regretting the freezer size I chose for my keezer. I was thinking it could fit 4 kegs but it just about squeezes 2 full size 19L and a small 10L keg. I have an idea to squeeze 2X 3L coke bottles in the space I have left, and connecting them up using the kegland carbonation cap T pieces...

If you top crop (or just save some slurry after you transfer) it keeps well in the fridge for next time. You can get through a good few generations this way with no need to make starters.