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How hoppy are you hoping for?

You can get short, stubby fermenters if you'd rather get things sealed up? I'm sure there would be a model that would fit in your fridge.

I suspect if the element goes it'll be a case of binning the machine. If it does happen to me I'll contact iMake to see what they can do first tho, there customer service has been spot on so far. Mind you, if it makes it to 150 brews before it gives up I don't think I'll be disappointed.

My entry for this is bottled and carbed, seems alright so far.

How do you go about working out the abv of a beer with added fruit?

That's fantastic...apart from the cat! :thumb:

34 I think.

Mine was from the first U.K. Shipment and I got it April 2015.

The November seasonal is berry ales, details can be found here: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=72916

Yeah, according to the revised style guide they are. I'm not sure i have enough of my amber ale left to enter a bottle so I don't think we need to work out whether that'd be acceptable.

The blackberry Stout sounds like it'd be a good fit for the November seasonal forum comp if you're interested? :thumb:

Sounds like the pub are rushing them out without giving them time to condition. As far as I know, beer usually leaves the brewery unconditioned so the pub have to leave them a few days to carb up and settle before putting them on.

I bought one of them once, pumpkin ale mustn't have been a good seller at the time. :lol: Mind you, it did include a bottle of Stone Ruin 10 so it was worth every penny.

Although the oats and carapils won't necessarily yield the same amount of sugars as the pale so it may not be a gram for gram swap to get the abv exactly the same. Best bet would be to run it through some brewing software.

I've never noticed a smell from fermenting beer unless I've stuck my nose in the fv.

My thinking is a blackberry stout hopped with bramling cross...predictable but should be a good combination. I've had a gooseberry sour before and the flavours worked well so I'm sure a saison would be a good un.

Strange. If you want, pm your email address and I'll send them over that way instead.

The recipe is in Mitch steele's IPA book, I'll pm you the page.

It's the boil that smells really but that lasts 90 minutes tops and the smell clears pretty quickly. Personally, I think it smells really nice but I've had plenty of people around when I've been brewing that wouldn't agree.

Clear winner! :lol: Does anyone who was planning a Christmas beer but not a berry beer fancy judging? It's a really enjoyable thing to do and, most importantly, it's free beer!!!