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This turned out nice! It’s a beautiful bank holiday Monday for a change. Just sat in the back garden trying this new brew. The Ardennes yeast reminds me a lot of Duvel or La Chouffe, and there’s definitely a bit of orange coming through in the finish from the Mandarina Bavaria. Nice summer quaffer.

I used to work at Cargill in Manchester. They make most of the glucose syrup in the UK that goes into all your sweets, cakes, jams, fizzy drinks and beer. They can make a spectrum of any molecule lengths of glucose to suit almost any confectionary application. So for hard candy it's a very...

I met Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in Clintons Cards in the Trafford Centre. My wife was a big fan of Changing Rooms at the time and as luck would have it, it was her birthday the next day, so I bought a birthday card and asked him to sign it to my wife. Nice chap! Anyway for a laugh I told her that...

I met Anthea Turner in the queue for the cork screw

Do you mean M54 California lager yeast. This might be worth a try if you can't ferment at low temperatures. I've used it a few times and it makes quite a clean lager at 17-18C.

I did a couple of vienna lagers recently, one with mangrove jacks bavarian lager yeast M76 and the other with bohemian lager yeast m84. I much preferred the M76. It really brought out the maltiness much more than the M84. I found the M84 also had a slight green apple off flavour that took a...

25L of Belgian Pale Ale with Wyeast 3522 Belgian Ardennes yeast, hopped with Hallertau Mittelfruh and Mandarina Bavaria

Belgian Pale Ale Volume 25L 1055 OG / 25 IBU 3.0Kg Pilsner 2.5Kg Marris otter 0.5Kg Vienna 0.2Kg Caramunich 1 0.2Kg Wheat Hallertau Mittelfruh 40g 60 minutes Hallertau Mittelfruh 25g 30 minutes Hallertau Mittelfruh 10g 10 minutes Mandarina Bavaria 15g 10 minutes Mandarina Bavaria...

add some cooled preboiled water to the yeast at the bottom of the fv, then swirl gently until all the yeast is in suspension. Leave it to sit for 5 minutes, then pour into a sanitised bottle or jar. I use a carafe type bottle with a large top. Most of the hop debris should be left in the...

we were watching beat the chaser on itv tonight and one of the questions was “who starred in When Harry met Sally”. We both shouted out Meg Ryan. Then I turned to her and said “never seen it. It’s a bird’s film”. She gave me that look. Then we turned over to bbc1 and the same film was just about...

I think maths is a good staring point with these things, but you will get used to your system and how much cabonation you want in your beer. It also depends how long you've had it carbing and at what temperature. I have my kegs at 30 psi for the first week until its carbed up and then cut it...

I only ever dry hop with pellets now. Cones just sit on the surface and take a long time to soak up the beer. Pellets seem to get to work straight away and eventually drop to the bottom, so you can rack the beer off easily.

What is the totally tropical? Haven’t tried that one!

I've just ordered 3 Kg of Amarillo, Simcoe & Citra from Get 'Er Brewed. Need to get a brew on!!! Would appreciate your input of any tried an trusted recipes...

There is a proportion of the population that are racist. No sort of protest or ban on social media is going to change that. Social media that allows anonymous comment will always allow this minority to spout abuse. My daughter uses tiktok and you can't comment unless you sign up with your mobile...

Yeah don't make many wheat beers. Think I'd be a bit cautious about letting Brett loose in my brewhouse too!

That's a great idea. Quite fancy trying some new yeasts. What yeasts did you get out of interest?

I have never noticed a difference in flavour from first wort hopping, but I did find it stopped boil over, which I used to have terrible trouble with when I first started brewing.

Huge jets or gushers on opening is not over carbonation it’s due to an infection in my experience. check your cleaning and sanitation.

What a beautiful day!! Just been for a bike ride with the family at fiddlers ferry And had a well earned pint of white rat at the ferry tavern afterwards. A very nice citrusy pint. Cascade and Amarillo. Need to get some Amarillo in. This is a proper summer quaffer! Anyway in the back garden now...