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The plan also is to start harvesting and washing yeast in the future, when I have better facilities for it. Although that's more because I'm cheap...

That's true I guess, although in winter here the main risk is the yeast being killed by freezing, spending a lot of time on a unheated cargo hold in a truck driving in sub -30c temps... And dry yeast is a lot less hassle, I have found a good dry house strain for my Bri'ish ales, so why bother...

I may have cocked up a little on batch#2 Northern Brown. Mean to keg it this friday, and took a gravity sample yesterday since it's been 11 days in the FV and looks done. FG seems to be at 1.013 from 1.042, for an AA of 68%even with a bit of muscovado sugar. I will from now on use 2 satchets of...

Best Bitter next, will be my first time trying a hop stand, 2g/L of equal parts Challenger and Styrian Goldings/Bobek. 80c/20 min. Have also been thinking about keg hopping, chucking in ~0.6g/L when kegging, then let them sit during keg conditioning and hopefully get drawn out with the first...

Taste the wort if you don't have iodine, if it tastes sweet you should have achieved conversion.

I have not brewed anything Belgian, but it is in my future brews list. I plan on trying the Lallemand Abbaye strain, when Googling around it seems to get a lot of praise, might be worth looking into.

I use a 56cm Weber kettle, works fine for ordinary grilling. I can use the coal baskets to scoop the coal to one side, the meat on the other and throw on some wood chips to cook on indirect heat "low and slow" and get some light smoking simultaneously. It works fine with one of those smoke...

10/04-22. Brewed up a Brown Ale yesterday night, have started brewing after dinner so I can start the mash before bed time for the kids, makes for far less hectic brewdays (nights). This is a slightly tweaked version of one I have made before, aiming to get closer to a nutty Northern Brown. Est...

If counting post boil volumes: 15L of stout, 24L brown ale. So 39L in total so far.

That's my thread. What an honour!

Aaah, wonderful spring...

We appearantly have quite a few. Back in the middle ages up to the early 1700's, if you were a self sufficient farmer owning your farm/land ( traditionally this was the norm for most farmers in Scandinavia), it was illegal to NOT be a homebrewer, so there are a lot of old regional varieties that...

Got 4 plants a few days ago, gonna put them in used 1.5L milk cartons with soil in a day or 2. Will let them grow indoors until the snow melts and the frosty nights are over. Varieties are Böle, Korsta, Bella and Gamla Källmon, all Swedish heritage varieties found on old abandoned farmsteads and...

Bitters are a very versatile table beer, goes well with a lot of food. Brown ales and stouts imo go very well with savoury stews and hot food, stouts more with savoury hot food though, like an American style Chili stew. Pairing food and beer is not inherently pretensious, although the way it's...

Welcome to the obsession!

Yeah, the dry selection is becoming really good, nice for me since I live so far away from everything with no LHBS, getting liqiud yeast shipped is not really doable for me.

I'm not really sure what the Brewly yeast is, someone suspected fermoale AY3, but the reviews I've seen from people who have used it don't add up with the attenuation and behaviour I get, I'd guess it's some Windsor related variant bred by Jästbolaget. We try do major work done one weekend every...

We try do major work done one weekend every month, but try to get something done every week, be it throwing away construction garbage, getting material or just some small preparations for bigger projects. As said we are not in a hurry but it's nice to get at least some sense of progress, and...

Well, the preparations will be done this summer, tearing out all old stuff and repainting etc, the actual building of the brewery might be a year or two in the future. We bought an old house not too long ago that needs some renovations done, but apart from some neglected maintenance of a...

As a bonus: the pellet burner/boiler room that will become also a brewery once we get the ground heat unit installed. Will tear down all wood panelling, clean properly, new ceiling tiles where the wood roof is, and paint with concrete paint. The room has water and drainage, but I need to...