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To return to something like the OP, though, Tesco in Scotland have had some cracking offers on single malts recently. Talisker Skye (my wife's favourite) and Laphroaig 10yr (used to be one of mine - doesn't seem to quite have the same bite these days), in the low £20s instead of the high £30s...

Well, I can't agree here! aunsure.... For me, there has never been an alcoholic drink on the market worth bothering with at less than 50p a unit (at current prices, obviously). I've just had a 500ml bottle of Williams Caesar Augustus. At 2.1 units this would have a minimum price of £1.05p...

Just had a quick look at https://www.clawhammersupply.com/blogs/moonshine-still-blog/home-brew-recipe-new-england-ipa-neipa If this is what you mean, then the first hop addition doesn't go in at the end of the boil. They specify "first wort" hopping with a hop I've never heard of - Azacca. I...

Yep, I agree with darrellm that bottle fermentation will inevitably produce sediment - but I think you'll be surprised how little it is possible to achieve. If you bottle a pretty much clear beer then there isn't much material (yeast or otherwise) left to settle out. But, if you prime an...

I'm a bit confused here. I popped "Claw Hammer Juicy IPA" into a search engine and came up with this: https://www.clawhammersupply.com/blogs/moonshine-still-blog/juicy-ipa-homebrew-recipe I didn't bother with the videos, but as for hops, the recipe seems to specify: Nugget, 60 mins boil Citra...

I totally agree with Mick. If you don't already have a "Corny keg" system, then maybe get one - but if you do, then forget the bottling and just pull yourself a half or a pint as you fancy. However, if you don't have one, and don't fancy the expense, then the short answer is yes. You can bottle...

Ah, Mr Bond. I see that you have inadvertently stumbled upon the truth. A pity, really. For now we have no choice other than to kill you. Quite painfully, I hope............

Well, I can't go back before 1963, but I do remember my dad brewing something called "Sarah's Bitter". Must have been about 1966/7? He thought it was the bee's knees, because it was supposed to be a "traditional" recipe (as best as I recall, there was a note explaining how this "Sarah" was a...

Probably a bit late now, but no I wouldn't. You'll probably be OK, but if your blow-off container is open to the atmosphere then it is open to contamination. It seems you have vigorous top-fermenter there - so I'd discard the excess blown-off yeast and harvest the yeast from the krausen within...

Well it can only be a suspicion, Clint, as I guess that you have no real method of evaluating the truth. Neither do most of us. I don't. I spent all of my working life as a scientist - as a biologist working mainly on marine fisheries. I can tell you an awful lot about the population...

Chase looks wonderful! I do so remember Oskar's ears going through a very fluffy stage and crossing over the top of his head. It looked a bit silly, but utterly gorgeous! What is Chase's background? It looks as though they could be related. Oskar is from a breeder near Coldstream, with Czech...

In the first pic he was 3 months, in the second 9 months old. He's the first German Shepherd that we've had that wasn't a rescue. We decided that, approaching 70, we had no time to play around if we wanted to try a pup from square one. So that any problems were ours, not because it was a...

Well, apart from my lovely friend Barney (my avatar) here is our newer, equally wonderful friend Oskar First of all when he was tiny. But now, rather huge!!

Yep, I use gelatine - but not as a matter of course. I'm on a long-term transition from bottling into kegging (Corny style). I never bothered with any sort of finings when I bottled. But, I find that 19l kegs can be difficult to get the beer clear. So, I'm presently using gelatine to help...

I'd put some into a couple of PET bottles (e.g. plastic drinks bottles - preferably new ones that had a fizzy drink in. Squeeze the sides in very slightly before sealing to give a visual indication of carbonation. You can then monitor the pressure level by loosening the cap slightly, which...

I'd leave it at least a week, then if your hydrometer hasn't arrived just have a taste. If it tastes very sweet, malty & not at all like beer then I'd say it hasn't fermented for whatever reason. In which case, I'd throw it away. Don't wait for your new yeast to arrive and re-pitch, as other...

I've also left dry hops in for a long time with no apparent problem. A recent brew was pitched on 18th Feb, and kegged on 16th March. My notes aren't precise, but say it was kegged "after a LONG time under dry hops". It was a 20l batch, dry hopped with 50g Citra, 36g Mosaic & 33g Simcoe, so...

Or is light a wave function? Isn't a photon a quantum wave packet?

Is this advice for dry-hopping with leaf hops? I've given up on pellets for dry hopping as I've found that very often the beer doesn't clear (and I'm talking 2 months here)

Well, my son-in-law (from Melbourne) swears by VB. But he is coming around to better brews............