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Not really a proper one thankfully...can still go out for a walk once a day for example

Cheers guys! Sorry i abandoned you! Look forward to reading through the topics and learning about how much things have moved on in the last couple years

Sorry it's been a while (2yrs +!) since I've been on here and contributed!!! As said on another thread, I moved house and all my gear was buried under other gear in the garage so I've not had the chance to brew. But given the current climate (and a severe lack of other options to pass the time...

This is literally the decision I made the other day. Not brewed in 2 yrs since I moved down to Devon and all my home brew gear never made it out the garage, when I saw that everyone was panic buying booze I thought "what better time to dust it all off and get back into it again?"...but it would...

Yep, and remove all the hop flavour

Morrisons do 4pack cans of new world IPA which is pretty good

Like the look of that one

gutted about this, one of my fave vocalists.

Oh I always check. Generally so I know to avoid as I'm impatient and dont usually like waiting a few days to settle after ive bought from the shop/disturbed the sediment etc

Says so on the bottle doesn't it? Nice drop too, quite like the gales stuff

Hmm, I thought i was ok with that but will look to see if there's anyway I can tighten that up.

But how do commercial ales manage to keep that freshness over time?

I'm finding that my bottled beers give optimum flavour 3weeks after fermentation (say 1 week into cold conditioning) after that they tend to diminish disappointingly....anyone else have this trouble?

Cant you just use tap water with a higher concentration of SS? I have Hard water and do just, had no probs so far. If you're worried you could get some litmus papers to check it 's below pH3

Always tastes better once its carbonated and chilled

When I prime I boil up the water and sugar to make a syrup, more concerned with boiling off any nasties that might be in the priming sugar tbh

I may be wrong but I've always considered porter to be be a sweeter, thicker brew whereas a stout tends to be thinner, drier and more bitter. Both can have chocolatey, coffee notes but IMO this tends to be more prominent in porters

I need to start buying in bulk!

Ive broke it down as much as I can foe you...obvs a big chunk of that is delivery, once I start harvesting yeast that will save £7 quid, maybe I could get cheaper grain at £5 for 5ks

I tend to order from geterbrewed so take the £7 delivery charge on the chin. Malt tends to cost about £6-8, hops maybe 2 x £3 and then £7 yeast so you're looking at around £27 quid for 40pts which is still pretty good at 68p a pint. Obvs there's other things like fuel to consider...