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I brewed a Mild 2 weeks ago, clone of Hop Back Old Master, bit strong for a Mild 1043 but a very nice beer, made it before. Bottling tomorrow hopefully.

I liked the Youngs American Amber Ale (AAA) when I made it.

Which recipe for PJ did you use? I've made this one several times and it's spot-on, did an A/B comparison outside a St Austell pub and was pleased at how close it was https://brewgr.com/recipe/9351/st-austell-proper-job-ipa-clone-english-ipa-recipe US-05 is my go-to yeast for these types of brews.

Absolutely.....always done things in moderation, just been diagnosed with a hormonal cancer due to my genes, go figure. I'll be eating and drinking what I like from now on.

If you are a man over 50 or know a man over 50, this thread might just save your life. Being blokes, we don't like talkiing about these things. 2 months ago I entered an alternative reality full of people I previously thought of as healthy, but with health issues. Yesterday that journey...

Can you provide your recipe as it sounds like you are doing an Extract brew: liquid malt extract and hops? If so, you don't need to worry about pH: the 5.2-5.6 is to get the best out of the Mash. If you're not doing an All Grain brew with a mash it's not an issue.

After Latif's Inspired and Misty Ricardo, I now seem to be working my way through Al's Kitchen curries.The Ceylon was the best one yet, I didn't have the Coconut Milk Powder but it didn't seem to make any difference as there's Coconut Milk in there, added a few onions early on too. Probably the...

Thanks all, I'll leave it out this time and stick to the Crystal, Chocolate and Black Malt.

Must be the CAMRA influence, but around this time of year I always brew a Dark Mild. Been scanning through a few recipes and wanted to try a new one this time, a few have Roasted Barley in them: I always thought Roasted Barley was primarily for Stouts, but what do you think? I have some, but use...

I'm having a terrible year - really successful germination in a heated propagator but after re-potting some have withered and died. I've been growing chillis for about 15 years and this has never happened before, not doing anything different, they are not outside in the greenhouse yet, only...

I just train them all. Works for me, been growing hops maybe 7 years, 3 varieties, and always have a good crop. One of the easiest things to grow: once they're in the ground, just let them get on with it :-)

I feel the same unfortunately: no question about the top-quality ingredients at MM but they have just got so expensive, I scale my brews with 1kg DME and MM are £4/kg more expensive than some suppliers. I usually buy 6 or 7 at a time so that's £28 more just on DME, let alone other ingredients.

Tried this one last weekend, a chef I hadn't seen before: one of the best so far, didn't put quite as much sugar in as he does and used my own regular curry gravy rather than his, came out great!

The Single-hop Nelson Sauvin recipe from the Greg Hughes book is an absolute belter, someone's thankfully put it up on Brewers Freind https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/629647/single-nelson Really simple pale ale that lets the hop shine through. Must do it again sometime.

Challenger is my new favourite hop since I started growing them. Use them in lots of brews: pale ales, brown ales, stouts. A real simple one is 92% pale malt and 8% crystal, OG 1042-45, bitter to 27 IBU with a 40g 0min addition as it cools: lovely!

And how much sugar was in each cube? I always prime with half a teaspoon of sugar per bottle and leave in the warm for 2 weeks, it works for me.

Don't worry, everything is really late this year - only 1 of my 3 hops is poking through yet. We had hardly any sunshine in March with all the rain, even the grass hasn't grown: first time I can ever remember not cutting the grass is March. And all the other plants and veg are well behind.

I try to pop into Wilko when I'm in the office, which is a short walk away, it always seems busy but the homebrew section has been run down over the last few years. I like their Gervin yeast.

A bit sad to see BrewUK go - I first started using them 11 years ago in 2012 with their "Way To Amarillo" Extract recipe pack and did a load of these before moving onto AG, as did a few of my brewing mates: they were always top-notch. I also regularly brew recipes from Gregg's recipe book...

You don't have to brew 23L, when I started I was doing 12L BIAB brews in a 15L pan, just use some brewing software to size your recipes. In fact, I still do this, but factor 1kg DME into my recipes as well as the grain which allowed me to brew greater volumes: reduced-volume boil topped up in...