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I've all the grains and hops ready for a foreign extra stout, a robust porter, a punk IPA, an English golden ale. I've got a couple of hoppy brews bottled already so I'll get them drunk before I do the punk and once that's done I've got 5kg of MO I'm going to use with as much of my freezer hops...

The old site was reassuringly clunky though! I liked it personally, compared to most of their competitors I found it quite informative in a weird kind of way, the new one's a bit sterile by comparison but actually quite well laid out. Plus points are grain by the 100g, negative for me is the...

Last time I added lemon zest to secondary I washed the fruit under hot water and then sprayed them with starsan before I peeled off the outside layer. Not sure how that's going to help you mind! Coconut could be toasted in a thoroughly clean frying pan and the nibs and bean could be soaked in a...

Title: St Petersburg RIS Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: Foreign Extra Stout Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 23 liters (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 28.5 liters Boil Gravity: 1.060 Efficiency: 85% (brew house) STATS: Original Gravity: 1.075 Final Gravity: 1.014 ABV (standard)...

Enjoying a bottle of this now and it's turned out lovely, for comparison I had a bottle of the real thing first. Now BD use cryo hops in the boil for a 'theoretical' (whatever that means) IBUs of 200, mine has 93 according to Brewers friend and obviously the difference is apparent but even at 90...

I have about 15 left from about 12 months ago, the hoppiness really calmed down after about 6 months and it's now a cracking crisp just slightly fruity Pilsner, really very very good.

Just ordered 16 bottles, good selection but a lot were out of stock not that I couldn't find a load I'd like to try anyway! Prices are excellent though, much more competitive than beerhawk who I've shopped with a few times now for the missus' sours. Hopefully they'll increase their range of...

I have a dedicated bottling bucket with a tap and use a bottling wand. Invariably nowadays I let it ferment out, cold crash if it's dry hopped, then transfer to the BB, I'll leave it in there for any amount of time from a few days to a few weeks if I cba bottlin, all the while it's settling out...

Cwtch. Never had anything near as good from a kit.

Bottled today, by my missus no less! Bonus :thumb: 48 grolsch bottles, well 49 but the odd one would have played havoc with my photo OCD. Very promising taste, gorgeous aroma and the colour is spot on. Should be ripe for the festive period.

Been on this forum 16 months so that was when I started, did about 15 kits, 3 extract and I just bottled AG8. 5 of the kits were 10 litres from Brewferm so that's about 450 litres, 900 pints give or take :-o

I dryhopped 300g in my last brew a couple of weeks ago now, they were in there for 10 days in total 3 of which was a cold crash. With that amount of hops a lot floats on the surface, I gently submerged them twice I think during the 7 days, then before the cold crash I sanitised a sieve and...

Same here, this works fine for me I can brew every two weeks or less if needs be. Also if I fancy doing a lager, which isn't that often TBH then I choose a time when I've got plenty of stock in the garage (which is most of the time these days) I'd suggest you get one fridge and see how it...

It gets everywhere doesn't it? I did used to think I had it all under control but... Utility room under the counter 3-4 stacked buckets, 2 no chill cubes Utility room Under the sink, capper, cleaner, box with sugars, syrups, DME, and a load of foil packed hops, another box with bags...

A few of my AG Cwtch, happy to say that the first sample was a dud it seems, these have been delicious tonight. An AG old pec that's just about to go out into the cold for a few weeks before it's ready and is quite promising already.

Nice pair though!

Channel 4 news is the religion in our house, we both give a little cheer when Snowy and Krish are both on the bill! Grand Designs is a must, cooking on Saturday morning, countryfile on Sunday. We both watch anything at all to do with travel. She likes effin bakeoff and effin strictly, I'm on...

Will be really interesting to see how it turns out, should be at its peak by Christmas that :thumb:

Racked this off the dry hops into the bottling bucket two days ago so it had 10 days in total, 7 at 22 and 3 at 0.5 degrees, I skimmed off the floating hops prior to the cold crash and that filled a large sieve on its own, there must have been 3 litres of hoppy trub in the bucket, it smelled...

1987 Webster Yorkshire bitter 84p a pint and it was lovely stuff.