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Thought I'd just update mine. Brewed a few weeks back, bit of aggro with the bottling stick but it came out well... Wife says it could be more sour....

thanks for all the advice. In the end I solved the issue of going to the shop for oats by getting my wife to pop in the shop on the way home! I brewed on Saturday and it seemed to come out alright and there is a lovely thick krausen already, going to drop the first dry hop in tonight. I went...

I just read these, interesting studies. I love the brulosophy exbeeriments!

Lallemand New England. I also have a packet of Lallemand Verdant in the fridge but earmarking that for my next brew (planning a single hop Enigma ale using Wheat and Carawheat).

I don't have that many hops available! apart from the 100g each of these I have 100g each of Enigma and Columbus in the freezer and some odd scraps of sladek, saaz and wai-iti. I can order some more but I haven't used that many hops in a brew before. I have never used Pekko or Sabro before...

OK, and at 6.67g/l dry hop I'm under that according to my calculation? Even my monster first NEIPA was at 10g/l so not much above and thats the most I've ever dry hopped. I tend to be between 2-4g/l for my regular brews. Good to know though for future reference.

I'm not really concerned about the hops, I've been wanting to brew a Sabro beer for a while and actually theyve been in my freezer for a long time, as have the Pekko. I'm hoping the Sabro flavour dominates. I will dry hop a total of 100g over two charges into 15 litres. I've never calculated...

Sorry, forgot to add, its for a 19l boil/15l batch. So the expected OG would be around 1.052 and FG around 1.012 for an abv roughly 5.4%.

Thanks, yeah I just use porridge oats too so the hassle is really only making a trip to Lidl.... So with the hops you would switch the 5min addition to "switch-off" and then add the rest around 75 degrees and do a hopstand? sounds like a good plan.

Hi there, Just a QQ for anyone on here. I'm planning to brew my second NEIPA this weekend. First one I did was a bit of a bust - it had tonnes of amarillo, galaxy, mosaic and citra but the hop flavour didn't last long and I put a touch of melanoidin on the grain bill which didn't play well...

I think I mentioned this before on another thread but the draft Pilsner over here in Czech Republic is still very very good. I missed it for so long on draft and its still my #1 preferred pilsner bar none (when on draft, I don't like spending more than twice as much for a bottle than any other...

Checks freezer - 3 bags of frozen raspberries from Lidl :laugh8: Ok it is Czech Lidl but they probably come from the same factory lol.

Hi there, sorry for resurrecting and hijacking this thread but I realised I am now coming to the end of the primary and havent really thought this through. Now I have been googling and reading about blanching, pasteurising, santising the fruit etc. Initially I was just going to thaw it and...

Going to put the raspberries in tomorrow I think. Will it work to put them in a couple of hop bags?

Just thought I'd come back and update this thread. I cracked the first of these a week or so ago and I must say it came out very well. A nice smoky base with every so slight roastiness from the carafa and a sweet balance. Could do with slightly more carbonation (I've recently changed the way...

Hi, just thought I'd update this thread to say I've finally got round to brewing this today. This thread inspired me last year but the weather has only just turned up... I'm going with pilsner and wheat malt at 45% each, then about 6% oats and 4% carared. Bittering with Sládek to about 20ibu...

Thanks, thats a good point. The main reason I'm considering dropping it down to around 80% is purely economical, I have to buy it in kilos so suddenly realised I could save buying a kilo and having half a kilo in stock. Not that that's a bad thing and the malt is about £1.20 a kilo...

Yeah, I might have to take them up on that. My Dad normally drives over at least once a year from the UK to Prague and stops in Bamberg en route to pick up 3 or 4 crates of mixed beers. But of course right now he can't. I've got a single Spezial and a single Schlenkerla left. We can get bottles...

Some great breweries popping up in Illinois, Indiana etc. Including a Czech one I believe. I've never had the Schlenkerla Fastenbier, I'll try to get hold of one this year. However as I understand it the main difference from their Marzen is that the Fastenbier is unfiltered? I've gone 22% in...

Me and you would make good drinking buddies for an evening. Pilsner Urquell is my favourite beer, bar none. I don't see much difference now and then, although I normally only drink it on draft here in the Czech Republic (so haven't had one for a while) +. It cost almost double most other...