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Having an IPA, late bottling after dry hopping and lost all its hoppyness 😔. If you weren't expecting a hoppy beer it would be fine. Just expectation. Have to get another on.

Lovely looking brew

Festival Gluten Free IPA, been in the bottle 2 weeks. Only a gluten free purchase because it was reduced! Tastes ok, but will know better after another 2 weeks I guess.

Thanks for sharing, can see this added to the lis🍺

Tonight's brew.

Are you an ex KenRidge kit brewer, how did you find the Vineco kit? Have to say that since they changed packaging I've only done 1 of their kits, been doing Renaissance from Spitting feathers since.

Brewferm Gallia tonight having finally got an old fridge attached to an Inkbird 308 non WiFi version. Feel justified in hanging onto that bit of plywood.... just in case...

Red wine enhancer in blackberry works well. That said adding blackberries to a 6 bottle cab sav works too. Happy brewing

Yes just grape juice concentrate. A litre is around £10, Beaverdale 6 bottle kits are around £12. You get named wine type and yeast so cheaper than using the wine enhancer. That said if you're doing a wow with 4 litres supermarket juice, adding a little 250ml bottle to it will beef the body up...

When I shyphoned it over to the bottling bucket, I kept the syphon tight to the side. I think the breakup is the hop cake moving, the white stuff broke into pieces, akin to flakes of soap. Bucket now filled with 30l of hot water and 60g of sodium percarbonate. Brew bottled. Is in lidded crates...

😮 Hopefully not

Cheers, no vinegary smell. It's clear, has a bright taste. Racked into the bottling bucket, left a fair bit behind so 🤞. Bottled.

Thanks for the link. Shall see how it progresses in the bottle.

Agreed, the dry hops pellets haven't sunk which is unusual. Brewed in a bucket, as per my normal method. Just odd. And the funny pattern is opposite the air lock, which is well filled

Temped to bottle, hopefully will be ok.

It was the kit yeast. 1052 down to 1006 so 6% which is on target.

Am after some advice please. Am about to bottle a Festival Gluten Free IPA. Started 8/2 dry hopped 18/2 but life has got in the way. On the floating hops there is this white plate like material. Any suggestions as to what it is, should I bottle it? Tastes OK, have it in the bottling bucket...

On a change of tipple tonight, Renaissance Rosso D'Avola kit wine, brewed August 21

How to grow hops depends on variety, some are better suited to traditional tall hop gardens (target, fuggles), some like cascade are not as tall and suited to hedge growing. Two pictures from Musée de la fraise, Wepion, Namur, Belgium. Suspended at the top of the pole is a ring attached to...

Agreed. If you use a variety of bottle types / heights it can be a pain. Wish my bench mounted capper was like my wine bottles Corker - spring loaded base.