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20L Robust Porter Total 8,090L Surprisingly low amount for this year; when you consider the price of beer these days.

A shoddy pdf version of Papazian's 'The Complete Joy of Homebrewing'. A book that someone literally photocopied every page of. Must have taken ages!

Arrived.

Don't know about the rest of ye but if I see the word 'juicy' anywhere near a beer, I avoid like the plague. I don't want a beer that tastes like it would get the thumbs up from the man from Del Monte.

Wouldn't the beer naturally increase in ABV if aged for a year in a whiskey barrel?

I uploaded the recipe for KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout by Founders) in the recipe section. It is an excellent beer that comes in at around 12%. The chocolate and coffee adjuncts are very good at masking any deficiencies that occur during brewing. Took four months to come good but was pretty...

Yeah, I don't have one of those. Someone built their own one and shared it with the world (Jeff Bagby?) but I couldn't be bothered going to that effort.

That might be a good shout @Sadfield I've tried the 60 min IPA and it's a lovely beer. I have the recipe for it so I will compare the two. Oddly enough, I rejected the idea of cloning the 60 or 90 min IPA because of all the faff...then I went and did this one as per the hop bill. It has...

I have run out of brown PET bottles and I gave up trying to pour straight from the keg into a glass bottle years ago. I will see if I can get a dark soda pop bottle tomorrow and use that. A bit ghetto but hey 🤷‍♂️

Dr Hans used to have an online pressure fermentation calculator but the link stopped working some time ago. It was very useful. You set it by beer style, temperature and desired carbonation level, if I remember correctly.

Pumpkin beer and honey porter sound very interesting, boys. Looking forward to trying them.

Brewed one last year. Waited until after Halloween to get the pumpkins really cheap. Made a pumpkin/coffee ale. The beer turned out just about ok but brew day was a right faff. I think I used 3 pumpkins and still had to top up with puree because I used diced pumpkin as a 'dry hop' addition. All...

And if swapping disconnects, remember to flush the line first. Adding oxygen to a NEIPA would not be a good idea.

Yeah, a blocked poppet is a right pain in the hole. If it happens, try blasting co2 down the liquid post. But obviously switch disconnects first or getting the grey one off the liquid post can be another pain.

I seem to recall trying this and the beer poured extremely cloudy and a funny colour. I ended up racking to another keg to save the beer. Has put me off trying keg hopping ever again. I wouldn't use pellets, that's for sure. Hop cones might be a better option?

Hi folks Dark beer comp time again. Getting the notice in early, for those that haven't got anything in stock ATM, to get that brew on and join me...on the dark side. Remit is pretty self explanatory but if you have any questions, feel free to ask. PM me for postage details, if you don't...

Thanks for the kind review. I got the recipe off @Donegal john and the fella's comments seemed spot on. Close but something missing on the back end. Must say though, it has improved with a little age. I think I would probably up the rye in the malt bill, just a bit, and ramp up the FO and dry...

20L of hoppy American red ale Total 7,004L

Ah, well no then. You need a co2 cylinder and an airtight FV. You pressurise, then vent. Theory being that oxygen is lighter than co2 and should get pushed out. But there will still be some that remain. Those plastic buckets do a job but if you start getting serious about brewing, they will...