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I use it for the same reason and for that reason I don't use finings. I don't have many vegetarian or vegan friends but if I did come across some they would still be able to drink my beer...if they had the strength to lift the glass that is....

Will be interested as to how this turns out as Challenger is my go to hop for bittering English style beers but I haven't used it beyond first boil stage.

Amber Star 15/09/17. Used 3.8kg of MO, carapils, extra dark crystal, tiny bit of CaraMunch. Used Wilko Gervin yeast. Hops 29g chinook at start, 10g bramling cross and 20g Brewers gold at 15, at flameout 29g bramling cross and 20g Stryian Golding. Was below 20 litres so chucked in some spring...

Thanks for the info. Did an all Cascade some time ago but it was a more full on high IBU IPA so will be interested how it turns out with this lower level IBU.

Used some mandarins barvaria hops in the dry hop as I had 10g left so I know this is not strictly a single hop beer anymore but they were just left over so chucked them in with 60g of Cascade.

I believe in total precision, one gram more and it will be too bitter and one gram less it will be too sweet.....no not really, it's a Greg Hughes recipe so I just followed the orders!

140th brew 14/10/2017 Cascade Single hop IPA. 41g Cascade at start, 20g Cascade 15m, 20g Cascade 5mins, 63g Cascade at flameout. 4.2kg Low colour MO an 290g Carapils. Got around 22 litres of this with a OG of 1058 which as higher than expected. Colour at pitch pale yellow to lemony 10-13 L...

Yes as already said - kit will be fine but yeast may not be viable. As an aside don't ever bother if the kit is over ten years out of date..the results are horrible!

That will be ideal!

I love Saison...on my second ever batch and love it!

Agree with this, 1010 is pretty good for a kit as I used to get 1012 as a stop for most of them, rising to 1014. Sugar will make it drier as there is no malt flavour after it has been converted to alcohol. Honey will do the same thing in a AG brew..you think it will be honey sweet but by the...

My wife reckons I could do two in a day..I just need the time and no kids around asking me to do things:thumb:

"Given back to people" you mean housing developers? They are already making loads of cash on knocking down pubs and building flats on them. I go to church and I like Christianity (the message of Jesus not some of that other Old Testament nonsense that is anti this or that). I did a...

As Lent is over I have had one of these for the first time. The beer was clear and straw in colour and held its head throughout. The taste was different to what I expected having used many American hopped IPAs. The aroma was subtle and malty and the taste was very much like a german beer which...

I did a couple of very out of date kits and they were foul, so I personnally wouldn't expect much from them 20 year old one!

I used to work in a place bottling wine. We used steam to give all the machinery a very good through clean so thought I might as well do the same for my own stuff!

I use a Buffolo boiler as a mash tun and then a 32l wort pot to boil. I always boil some water before using and after and in both cases let the steam clean the inside and the boiling water run through the tap to clean and sanitise it. After using the boiling pot I wash it and then boil water in...

I suspect I will drink my first in a few weeks time but also now have the advantage of a whole load of other beer that is ready so can leave the bulk of these for those months to age, looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I might buy bulk Pilsner malt instead of MO for my next brewing...

Thanks for the tip :thumb:

The Dolby System "English" Saison. 19/03/17. 2.2kg Maris Otter, 1.9kg Vienna Malt, 470g Torrified Wheat (had no Wheat malt) and 112g of Extra Dark Crystal. 30g EKG at 70mins, 20 EKG at 10mins, 22g Dana at flameout. Got 21L of this and the OG is 1053 means at 1010 it will be 5.6%. Taste at pitch...