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Just brewed - well 3 days ago - and now fermenting an American Ale. It's my first attempt at an Extract brew with Steeping Grains. I have done Extract before but not this way. So far it is just off the final gravity amount so by tomorrow it should be ready for Dry hopping with 50g of El...

Just bottled two brews. First is Santa's Grog - a Christmas Pudding beer with spices, apples and raisins that comes out at 10% - now down to condition. Second is Foredown Falldown, this year's harvest from a relative's orchard - a nice golden cider - also down for conditioning and ready by...

My local Micro Pub just published a recipe for using up your spent grain from a brew day. The Watchmakers Arms in Hove. I don't have a dog but I'm sure if I did it would love these... The recipe: Have Bun... Woof!!!!

Just brewed my Christmas ale - with Christmas Pudding flavours - as an experiment so we shall see what it's like.

I was donated some hops through a friend (who is sharing the spoils) from someone who gleaned the hop plant from one found in a hedgerow. This could be a wild Sussex strain but we have no way of finding out therefore don't know the Alpha value - but they do smell good. After plucking the...

Yes agree, I would welcome comments / pointers as to where I'm going wrong ( or right) so will think about joining. I started my own group in FB as I couldn't find any others in the area. (Sussex Home Brewing Group). I am doing a couple of brews this week.

this is what I got from your link.. Not sure what to expect but it seemed out of size to me.

Home brew Brighton seems to have stopped. Their FB page is distorted and the web site hasn't been updated for a couple of years. Well that's how it appears.

Hi Prog. Not got an original here - in any form - but I'm from Edinburgh and used to drink it then - maybe I'm the reason it vanished lol - I'll have to go home again and find it.

On holiday in Sesimbra, Portugal I came across a restaurant (the Tap House) that brewed it's own craft beers (they said on the premises but I don't think that was true) - that I had the pleasure in tasting all but one. I have nicked a copy of their menu and show it here - followed by my last...

Just started to consume this now it has been conditioning for a few weeks. It is my attempt at McEwans 80/-. I am determined to find out what has caused a very slight sourness to it. It may be something in the mash or the yeast used. It's good but could be better.

Please put me down for the IBT-2X BBQ Bluetooth Temperature Thermometer with 2 Probes. Ideal to track mash and sparge temps. Thankyou

Sussex here also Brewnoobie. Portslade here.

Well just done a test of the unit with just water in the boiler so values here with be different when wort is subject to cooling. If I understand correctly, sugar based liquids will retain more heat that pure water but I may be wrong... Anyway some results: (All temperatures are in degrees...

Ive no idea yet as to how much attenuation there will be. I know that water gets very hot when the hose is left out on the lawn so... we shall see.

Or better like this one...

I didn't have room in my current freezer to do it that way - though, you are right, the effect would be the same. I did this as a project I could occupy my time with and get me out of the house (why I wonder?). The freezer was a piece of junk, working junk yes, but it should have gone in the...

I have a large Fridge Freezer (also costing £10) that I use to cool the beer in a FV when it's not used to keep my PB beer cool. The freezer part holds all my hops and ice for my cocktails!!! This new freezer was a way to speed up the boil to FV process so I can avoid potential contamination.

Hi there, Easier to obtain, yes I go out and spend a lot of money for a plate chiller, and pump and pipework but the whole point was to save money (so I can make more beer!). The cost of all this would be now well over £100. I spent just over £20. Even a counter-flow chiller, plate or...

This may be the wrong area for this thread but I'm sure the Mods will move it if necessary. I put it here for discussion as to the viability of the idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My last brew was chilled using tap water plumbed...