Search results

I just use roasted barley full mash but think the bitterness it provides needs to mellow for weeks longer than a pale beer.

Can you crop the spores from supermarket fungi

can you explain more as the price of smoked malt is crazy, not that I'm gonna buy a cold smoker I was thinking maybe a colander of malt over remnant of living room fire and a bit of saw dust

What about water, as in AG always has boiled water meaning chlorine is gassed off and minerals do what ever they do when water gets hot - kettle scale type stuff. But when I did kits I used to run 20 litres of water from tap to fv. So maybe the chlorine did bad things to beerkit - whatever...

I just put 100gs of this as dry hops in my basic pale ale recipie can't wait but only 6% AA

I used to do boil in the bag on propane outside and one day it started to rain and there i was one sorry looking plonker with a patio umbrella over my kettle trying to finish a boil. That brew failed due to infection. My general problem with brewing outside was that everything is dirty, then the...

I refuse point blank to move my fv out of the kitchin. it is a hill to die on, there is plenty of kitchin to go round and it's a stainless steel milk churn that looks very dashing if you ask me.

Rolls eyes

I was round a friends house yesterday and he can't drink for medical reasons so still has a good stash of his own cider now a year old. He made me drink 2 bottles of it while he smiled. One was 8% and the flavour was still fresh and intense then 5% er also very fresh but less intense. I never...

So this article talks about a 5.2 buffer solution that magically brings your mash up or down to correct ph so why in the name everything polite does everyone go on about water reports and defuddeld excel spreadies. I just add a splosh of AMS to my very hard water so plenty of room for me to...

We just had our first frost so it's now or never to gather rosehips. For your sours how did you use them please

I started to brew to save the planet and reduce co2 and glass bottles etc. Also because I'm tight as tight and wanted to save money.plus I drink a fair bit of beer. So I was banging out kits and feeling proud of my self when the Mrs sent me on an all grain course. Which changed me because that...

My kit is fully stainless and shines in the sun but didn't cost too much in the scheme of things, 2 50 litre saucepans both with taps one with a false bottom as a mash tun plus 2 stainless milk churns. If any of my offspring ever got into brewing this kit would probably last thier lifetime

Its gonna taste like bacon

Make a regular pale beer light on hops and chuck 2 kilo of previously frozen sloes in leave for a few weeks. Tastes better if left a few months after bottleing. Now is the time sloes are looking good. Btw im not saying this involves a lactic fememtation but its sour as ..

Steady, Ive got the hots for Angela, I also put a wobblygob on over the weekend and its been slow to get going but Im keeping the faith.

I plasterd the walls of my kitchen with sweet ginger beer and glass back in the day. Bottle bomb is the correct term.

I did 3 40 litre plastic boxes worth

I'm loving my own made cider but I'm getting a little old for the clandestine scurrying around involved in blagging apples, got some verbal off a dog walker this year for taking the birds food. Also found access to some regular trees blocked over the years. Time to go legit. Has anyone planted...