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Morning chaps, I have started my yeast starter quite late (last night) and I used leftover yeast from the bottom of the bottles of my porter (Hook Norton yeast). Made up the dme solution and added it to the DJ with the yeast but I'm not sure if it'll be enough (though I'm brewing a fairly...

Nice! OT recipe is legit and with the proper yeast I'd imagine it tastes even better. I used S04 and it turned out well.

Go on, I'd enjoy having some brew-clobber.

I have no idea what I'll brew. Been evolving recipes from GW's British Ale book but I'm not so great at coming up with recipes from scratch!

Woohoo! Top stuff MM. PM on the way.

Bit of a bump here; any ideas when the next one will be as I'm gutted I couldn't make the last one!

I'm in training for a half marathon in Feb so taking week nights off the sauce while I do the bulk of my training. The problem with having a kegerator full of beer is that it is so tempting to just pour yourself a pint...staying strong so that I can lose a bit of weight and, ironically, sleep...

Kegging it. There's quite a bit of hop debris gone in, will it sink to the bottom?

Fine, MyQul: you can explain it to my boss and gf when I wake up with a plant pot on my head!

This has been dry hopped with some goldings and simcoe and has dropped down to 1012 which gives me a 5.2% beer. Going to bottle it tonight/tomorrow night even though I originally brewed it for the keg but my stout is still in there and I can't drink 20 pints in an evening!

This really sucks. I'm doing a dry Mon-Thursday instead of the whole thing but non-alcoholic beer is awful. I will say something for Brewdog's Nanny State which is hugely hoppy without any of the booze; helped me forget I was going without but you still get that dryness from a lack of mouthfeel.

So I had a half of my stout from the keg after having had just N/A beer for a few nights and it nearly took my bloody head off! Amazing how the tolerance goes down so quickly. Admittedly it is 5.7%

Leon, my plan for a semi-dry January (no beer on week nights) is tearing at the seams after a stressful start back to work, too. Becks Blue just isn't cutting it!

Yes please! :)

Here's me chilling with my boy James Joyce in Dublin.

It's really taken off on the fermentation front. S04 with a little bit of yeast nutrient and kaboom! I'm cutting right down on my weekly beer intake so I'm going to bottle it and stash this for my birthday (February 4th)

This has turned out beautifully; not too roasted but with a lovely bitter bite to it.

OG was 1052 (I added some water to the boil to get myself up to 23l) Will let you know how it goes!

5kg of Pale Malt Hops are 10g Northern Brewer @ 60 mins 15g Columbus @ 30 mins 10g Goldings @ 10 mins 10g Simcoe @flameout Safale s04

JapanBrew: I feel your pain from the two years I spent abroad in Korea. Customs wouldn't allow any good stuff through and the shipping was more than the items in some cases!