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Bottled today. Dry hopped with 20g Galaxy in primary after 12 days, then left weighed down in a muslin bag for 10 days. Final gravity 1.008 which gives 4.6%. Batch primed with 60g sugar which should give 2.2 volumes of CO2. Ended up with 11.5L bottled. It smells fantastic and the trial jar...

I know; however, it is a top tune by Pavement, so I thought I'd crowbar it in! I've settled on modified song titles for my beer names.

Bottled this after fermenting for two weeks. SG 1.017 = 5.6%. Went for 1.7 volumes of CO2 on priming. I went for the lower end of the scale as I thought 1.017 was a bit high, but wouldn't have got the chance to bottle for another two weeks if I hadn't bottled when I did. It went like a rocket in...

Life's too short for beer labels! This one will simply have the letter G on the cap in felt tip.

It's a double brew weekend as SWMBO and the children are at the Outlaws for the first few days of half term. A moan-free weekend of brewing. This was today's effort: an elderberry stout/porter. No roasted barley, so I don't suppose I'm allowed to call it a stout? Picked the elderberries a few...

Another dimension, another dimension. It was all Galaxy for yesterdays brew. Working my way through my stocks of DME before I take delivery of 25Kg of MO and move over to the darkside. Wanted something pale and hoppy, so went for an all Galaxy pale ale with a bit of caramalt and carapils. First...

I've been sampling this on occasion from about 2 weeks post-bottling (mid June). The first few bottles I wasn't all that impressed by, it is nothing like intended, I shouldn't have messed with the recipe I had (next time no CaraMunich III and use fresher hops - these were 2011 harvest). I left...

Got this made on Saturday, with plenty of breaks in between steps to do other things. 60 min steep of grains, 60 min boil. All went smoothly. A black chocolaty 1.060, probably more porter than stout. Re-hydrated Safale S-04 and pitched about 7pm at ~28C as taxi was waiting. 6 cm of krausen the...

Cheers. I've been reading your posts on elderberry stout, this is what put the idea in my head. Having never sampled the delights of a 'velvet pussy', I'm reluctant to make the whole batch elderberry stout. I'm still not sure of the idea of fruit and beer, but fancied trying. Sounds like a good...

As The Fall is upon us ah, and temperatures are more conducive to brewing ah, I'm planning on knocking up a merkin-style stout/porter affair at the weekend ah. Thoughts? Too much chocolate for a 12L batch size (can you have too much chocolate malt?)? Too much crystal? I don't have any roasted...

Haha, I hadn't spotted that, I think it's supposed to be me, courtesy of my 9 year old.

13 days in primary in the 21-23 ºC range before bottling. FG 1.014 5.25%. Primed with sugar to approx 3.0 volumes of CO2. First taste this evening after 1 week carbonating. This is great stuff, Illya Kuryakin and Napolean Solo would be pleased. Carbonation is spot on. It's a dark dark brew...

If the 'density' of the hops is the same i.e. 5g / gallon then surely they have the same room to move around in? I don't get how they can take up more room if the hops/gallon is the same. Is it some sort of pan diameter to volume issue? I'm not trying to pick an argument! I'm just interested in...

I'm not sure I get it??? For example, if you're using 25g of bittering hops for a 5 gallon recipe and you scale down to 1 gallon, then you will be using 5g of hops. The mass of hops:volume of water ratio is the same 5g per gallon. I can't fathom why this would result in lower bittering? I can...

I think you just answered your own question. "obviously they don't taste as nice or let you have as much control". I suspect that for many of us, cost isn't the be-all and end-all, it's about being able to create something that tastes as good as or better than anything you can buy, particularly...

Glad I went for the 25L fermentimg bin cf. 15L, there's 3 inch of krausen this morning. It would be all over the floor in the smaller bin. I'm also happy that I abandoned the idea of brewing a stout, as this is currently fermenting at ~23°C. I guess this means banana rather than clove. Can...

It was a bit of a spur of the moment thing. I knew that I wanted to use the three malts, but wasn't sure of quantities, no time to ask for advice as I had to take advantage of an impromptu brew day. It's looking a bit porter-like, but I fancied seeing what that would taste like in a dunkel. I...

Yeast pitched. SG 1.054. It's a murky looking brew, should deter THRUSH.

Getting a sneaky fractured brew day in whilst my daughter is at a birthday party and son has a friend round to play. Was thinking of a stout, but it's getting a bit too warm to brew; however, it's ideal for a wheat beer. Dunkel is going on, grains steeping at the moment. I had no plans for this...

I haven't used Starsan, but plan to add some to my next order as I'm fed up with the excessive rinsing required when using thin bleach. Looking at the ingredients in Starsan, when diluted to the correct concentration, you would be ingesting at most a few drops of dilute phosphoric acid with a...