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Thanks buddy, Campdend bombed it last night, pitched the yeast this evening, yeast had an interesting smell, my 5 yr old daughter said it smelt like rabbit food, fingers crossed and let's hope for bubblin' this time tomorrow!!

Hmm, 1045, so probably ~5% not great, but a lot of the apples have been early windfall. Ah well, it is what it is and I never add sugar so we'll see what we get. Be interested to hear about peoples experience with fermenting under warmer conditions as I've heard different things. Last year's...

Hey all, sorry to hear about things in South Devon/blighty and the lack of apples. Here in Jersey we had no issues with frost and our circa 45yr old tree of unknown heritage has been pretty productive, coupled with a bit of scrumping from some friends resulted in four big flexi-tubs worth of...

1056 on the OG this evening.

Going off piste and making a fairly strong, quite hoppy brown ale. Was gonna be amber but I added 300g of chocolate malt instead of 100g!:D Should come out okay, in the fridge now getting down to pitching temp as ground water temp here around 19C.

Anyone else making a fresh hop beer this autumn? Brew day today and the house currently smelling wonderful!

Same here, when I enquired about it with the seller they said that they no longer supply it as there were so many issues with stuck mashes/spares etc. I've not had any issues and as others have said just download the user guide and watch stuff on YouTube.

Made this in the end a good while ago and it's just been getting better with every bottle, of which there's only two left now ashock1. Will definitely brew again, thanks for the tip off.

I'm in Redneck please! Thanks

Okay thanks for the advice, I was working on the 2:2:2 principle, so would probably end 2 weeks altogether fermenting before bottling. 8 days primary fermenter, then just need to figure out the order of dry hop/transfer/cold crash and adding priming sugar before bottling. Only want to transfer...

The stuff has arrived, so I'm just pondering on when to brew clapa. I could do it on Thursday but then we're away for a 8 days or so. In that case I'd just bang it the fermenter at 17°C (Safale US-05 ideal range 15-22°C) and dry hop when I got back. Recipe suggests dry hopping around day 4...

Didn't have much yield last year but hoping for more this year. However last year I discovered 3 sets of wild hops in different locations, one of which cropped very heavily. Made friends with the land owner and he let me gather as much as I wanted, he didn't even know they were hops :laugh8...

Growing primadonna and cascade currently, which are doing well. Only planted last year so hoping for some better yield this year now the rhizomes have bedded in.

Went down the easy route and bought the Eight Arch Corbel kit from MM. Will see how I get on 👍

Thanks for the recipe. We have soft water here and I've not started to dabble in changing the water chemistry yet for brews, but is something I aim to do in the near future. I'm guessing with the flame out additions you whirlpool at 80ish for 30mins, or do you just leave them in whilst you cool...

Looks like there's variants that use all centennial all mosaic etc, buy suspect it's not as straightforward a recipe to simple swap the hops but stick with the same grain bill. Where would I find the Corbel recipe?

Looking to make a tasty, sessionable highly hopped IPA, but something I can bottle or dare I say, put in a plastic keg. Has anyone tried the 'Lawson's Finest Liquids - Super Session IPA' from The Big Book of Homebrew? If so, how did it turn out? It sounds fairly straightforward and is singly dry...

Yeah, it's halfway between a W coast and a NEIPA so fully anticipated some cloudiness. Will bottle as planned on Wednesday and see how it comes out in a few weeks 🤞

Any advice on the length of cold crash? It's been sat at 5°C for a couple of days, took 2 days to get down there and took a sample today and took a gravity test out of interest and SG which came out 1013 (temp corrected), but still looks pretty cloudy/murky. I half expected this given the amount...