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Loving all the picking reports - it’s feels like there’s a lot more of us growing hops this year than previously. I’m hoping to have an allotment early next year and intend to grow 3 or 4 new hops there to supplement the single Goldings I have in my garden. I’m thinking another Goldings, a...

A lot of love for the German wheats here, so, moving slightly west, I just wanted to pipe up that my Earl Grey Witbier is perhaps my favourite home-brewed beer... Graaf Grijs Wit (20L) Witbier 4.7% / 11.8 °P Original Gravity: 1.048 Final Gravity (Fixed): 1.012 IBU (Tinseth): 16 Color: 7.3 EBC...

It’s always worth bearing in mind that all the efforts we go with cleaning and sanitisation is just to best avoid the chance of a spoiled brew. Failure to not sanitise a bit of equipment correctly or doing something not deemed best practice on the spur of the moment does not automatically equal...

Ta. I’ve entered!

Now, that is an impressive yield! From my, admittedly not very exhaustive, research high yielding varieties are meant to produce only 500g-1kg in a season (I’d assumed that was wet weight as well, but your experience would seem to suggest it’s dry weight). You’re obviously doing something very...

You know what, I have no idea! All the advice I’ve read just says not to place your drying hops in direct sunlight, but I’ve not researched why that might be. Commercial hop growers don’t dry their hops in the sunlight, and maybe that’s just filtered down to the homegrown level without much...

I air dry mine in the eaves of my garage where it’s low 20s at the moment. They took about 3 days to lose 80% of weight. Don’t wish to alarm you, but ideally you want to be drying them somewhere dark and warm, and not in direct sunlight. If drying them outside like you are, do you have...

This will probably work, but obvs not ideal if you want to start drinking now 😁 I’ve had bottled Wits drop completely clear when left in the fridge for an extended period (which is kind of the opposite problem to you).

Tell me about it! Do you find your hop schedule (particularly the Mandarina) complements it, or is it lost in a general oranginess? I only brewed at highest temperatures as an experiment into what the yeast would produce. I think in future I’ll definitely just try it at ambient summer...

I heard that. Can’t say I’m getting it from this dry hop - but I didn’t go overboard, just 2g/L. I bittered with Apollo just to 20IBU with no other hop additions (as it was a brew to check out what the yeast could bring to the party).

My golden ale with Lallemand Voss is actually quite clear now (as you can see from this sample bottle): That’s just with Irish moss in the boil. The yeast does seem to have settled somewhat on the sides of this mini pop bottle, which I can see is also the same with some of my brown glass...

:laugh8: Ok, you win the internet.:laugh8:

I do this too (although without the pumps!). I’m sure I lose time with the collected wort not heating straightaway, but hey ho, I’m a skin flint, still waiting to find a cheap boiler/second kettle to use😏. Does have the benefit of being able to estimate my pre-boil volume at least from the...

Everyone does this, but I didn’t pick it up until a couple of brews in and found putting the correct amount of beer in the bottle a faff: Fill the bottle to the rim with your bottling wand/syphon tube in the bottle and on removing the wand/tube, voila, headspace! Maybe useful for those very...

If I’m not too late I’ll get the mild in the post tomorrow. Time has quite run away from me... ETA: no matter, I don’t think it will get to you in time now and settle...

Dammit, @terrym - I was going to run with it and get my post count right up:laugh8: . @Janulka098 - really hope your wine turns out fine (I’m sure it will!)

What was the correct hop? I vote for a smash or thereabouts, you might find out you like comet. I think using it in something hastily thrown together is asking for disaster. But what do I know, it might also be the best beer you ever brewed. ETA: as @Gerryjo says, if you want to use your...

And there’s the first 300g (now 69g) of MBG now packaged up and ready for the freezer 😁 . My hands smell a-maz-ing after packing them into the bag!

This is the video I watched last year to help me decide when to harvest. It’s well worth a watch.athumb..

That’s the final 350g of this year’s Mid Beds Goldings crop picked. Luckily I had help: (girl twin wasn’t in the least interested. At least I’m bringing the lad up proper - must be the Kentish in him) So I cropped 650g wet in all - so a bumper crop from a single plant. Should get me about...