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since the mid 80s, solidarity, Leah Walesa etc. The iron curtain and greatest threat to us dissolved, we lost our enemy. so the rulers have invented others for us to fear/hate since. the others are mainly ourselves, or invented versions thereof, "damn snowflakes letting brown people in our...

muntons. can't remember which one tho

it's traditional in our house to drink stout during November. once the clocks go back, time for lovely stout. so I made a batch in late august to be ready this weekend. chocolate vanilla, it's worked well in the past. I open the first bottle, it wasn't a gusher, but quickly turned into a snow...

Porter. 10lt batch, pale malt, crystal, choc malt, a bit of oats and flake barley. Fuggles at start and end of boil. Muntons yeast from saved from previous batch (can't remember type). bit of vanilla pod pickled in brandy at end of fermentation. lush & rich!

does this process work with dried yeast? I'm about to bottle a stout that I used a sachet of Gervin ale yeast. I'm planning to make another similar stout a few days later, and collecting and re-using the yeast would save a quid or so. I am very tight! cheers

eh?

just tried a bottle of my second real ale kit. I made it with a kilo of mashed pale malt instead of the dextrose that came in the box. bit of a disappointment compared to the first one that was as per instruction. no hoppy-ness at all. bland and only 3%

had a couple of the real ales last night. nice, hoppy, bitter. not bad at all. i got 11L at 4% from following the instructions.

oo cheers, i'll have a look on $bay now.

I'd like to make red wine from a kit, but refuse to use or buy any animal products. do you know of any kits available without the finnings?

Just bottled the real ale as per instructions. tasting good and quite hoppy. i guess that'll fade over next couple of weeks. I've got a second kit to try mashing a kilo of pale malt instead of the dextrose. ..

bottled a strawberry pale

i did one of those b&m real ale mini kits. as per instructions but pretreated the water with campden tablet. i picked up a 2nd kit to mess with. ..

yippee a

1st batch was drinkable, 2nd went down the plug hole. dropped to SG 1000, I guess infected, smelled and tasted rank, it never improved.

prima donna. dwarf first gold. 2nd year. It's a bit puny.

do these work ok with pellet hops. cheers

just brewed a choc stout. did a mini mash with roasted barley, crystal, cara wheat, carafe special and oats. I used a kg of muntons brew enhancer as the fermentable. fuggles and sorachi ace. I've got some cocoa nibs to add next week. also used the second runnings, with a bit more enhancer and a...

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another Cardiff home brewer here, Canton area