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Hmm interesting. Bottle banks eh? how do you get into em :P Or do you just wait and accost people for them as they arrive? :twisted:

Also have seen places that'll charge me £37 got 100 clear 500ml bottles which I don't think is too bad, but then there is £25 shipping to my postcode so that's not really efficient. :(

Ok, not sure why I'm posting this but you guys are much more experienced than I am so might see a solution. I'm having an issue 'bottling' my beer. I manage to scrounge 50ish 500ml bottles a month but I'm brewing way more than that. Think half my issue lies in that I'm making 2 or 3 times the...

I learn so much just from Clibit's posts.

If only they were closer :/ Nice find!

Looks good! I do like a darker malty ipa/apa myself so I'd be quite happy drinking that. As far as future brews following this recipe go sticking with the same grain list and yeast is important, that way when you're comparing taste you're only comparing the impact of different hops :)

If that's the case mate I'd heavily recommend the Lowcaz *mighta spelled it wrong* polish fruit syrups instead. Think it's Roddy who promotes those a lot on the forums. Think he primes with them and gets a nice flavour. :)

Did you boil the cordial concentrate first? Well known to be difficult to brew from, has a horrible preservative in it.

Starsan+cling film does well too on my 10l buckets :)

Depends, I only usually dry hop with 10% if I'm playing with a new hop. Tend to find if I over dryhop with a new hop I don't get a feel for what the hop can do. Hope that makes sense, hehe.

Depends on budget mate, US-05 is fine to be honest. Plus if you've not got a LHBS close (like me) I tend to harvest it for the next brew :) If you're feeling flush try a wyeast. Brewdog released their recipe book recently and they use 1056 a lot but I'm told that it's really similar to us-05 so...

Another suggestion is if you're still finding what hops you like and don't want to pay for the US stuff try the New Zealand hops. Some are very similar to the US stuff and a lot cheaper.

I really enjoy a good DMASH. (double malt and single hop) so something like; Pale malt 2750g Crystal malt 250g Then pick one of the American hops (from a site with forum member discount!) Amarillo 25g@60 Amarillo 15@15 Amarillo 15@5 Amarillo 35@ flameout Amarillo dryhop with rest of bag...

Interesting, for Tactical Nuclear Penguin it suggests using a method which is quite the taboo subject. (Brewer's Tip) Wonder if that's the official method or if they use the centrifuge for that :)

Wow, that is really cool.

Just bottling mine today. Fermented with 500g light dme (all I had with no LHBS near) and 1kg soft brown sugar. OG was 1.058 and FG is 1.010. Added 1 pack of oak chips on day 7 and about to bottle it now. Lovely taste. :) Rather tempted to drop in some bourbon before bottling actually as I'm a...

Sorry mate, meant carb not condition (post edited). Was on an early shift today so I'm only half awake :lol:

Great, thanks guys. Will give it another week (if not 2) and see if I get any movement. If I bottled it at a FG of 1.040 would it actually carb up or would I just be ending up with flat beer? Guess my thought process is that if all the fermentable sugars are gone then it should still carb if i...

So I binned my little thermometer with probe. Basically I had a mini-brewday recently and this was the recipe; Wort amount preboil 13L Wort amount post boil 9L 3kg - Marris Otter .250g Crystal 30g Citra 60m 10g Citra 15m 5g Citra 5m 65g Citra Flameout All seemed good till I took a OG and got...

Bit late to the party but WHS's bump made me spot the post. I'm also in Worcester. :)