Search results

The Homebrew Forum

Help Support The Homebrew Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. Keith 66

    Fermented hot sauce

    I made some last week, Recipe from Souped up kitchen on you tube, 1ld of chillis 12 garlic cloves big lump of ginger 6 tablespoons of salt & 2 of sugar plus 2 of high stength booze, i used brandy but you could use vodka or anything else. I used a mix of Ring of fire cayenne, Habaneros & Pot...
  2. Keith 66

    What did you brew today?

    Tried my first 25 L partial extract brew today in my new Klarstein boiler, 1.5kg of coopers pale malt extract, 1.5kg of maris otter malt, 100 gms of hops air dried in sun for 2 days. These are an unknown variety rescued from an abandoned farm & now growing in my garden. Finished with 15 grams of...
  3. Keith 66

    Does anyone remember...

    Back when i was a teenager we mostly drank in our local yacht club, Ben truman on draught wasnt bad & Watneys red barrel plus some horrible stuff called Starlight that was so weak today it would probably qualify as non alcoholic.
  4. Keith 66

    what is the best beer you have ever tasted?

    Once upon a time i loved old speckled hen until the night i had a gallon & a half of it. More recently glorious beers, would include Old dairy brewery Uber brew, Salopian Lemon dream & Crouch vale Brewers gold, Had one called Single Hop at the Kentish beer festival a couple of weeks back that...
  5. Keith 66

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    Air dried for 3 days on a rack in the conservatory which has good airflow & they are still slightly sticky to handle, now vac packed, going to pick some more and vac pack fresh to see if there is much difference. Going to be fun experimenting.
  6. Keith 66

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    I looked at that video & found it most informative, on that i decided to wait until today & they were just right. In half an hour i had picked a sackful & they are now spread out on a drying rack. Picking them my hands were sticky with oil & they smell rather good. It hardly looks as if i have...
  7. Keith 66

    So who's growing chillies this year?

    I have been growing them for about ten years, this year i have oneAji Limon & two that were supposed to be them but are obviously not, they look like a Habanero? Ring of fire cayenne, loads of these they are extremely reliable & crop heavily, Pot black which start black & turn red as they ripen...
  8. Keith 66

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    The cones are papery & as you describe, they are in a sheltered spot in full sun, Im going to start harvesting tomorrow but will leave the unripe ones for a few more days. Heres a photo,https://www.flickr.com/photos/13167918@N04/48644049833/in/dateposted-public/
  9. Keith 66

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    One of the reasons i joined this forum, obviously i like beer! But i like growing things too. Not far from where i live is an old smallholding that reputedly was once one of Henry the v111's hunting lodges. Ever since i was a kid there have been wild hops growing nearby, often overwhelmed by...
  10. Keith 66

    Newbie from Essex

    Hi Folks, I have been brewing from kits for about ten years but am just starting branching out into doing it the hard way. Got a lot to learn!
Back
Top