Search results

Righto.... Barleywine by itself it is! Went for the headcracker - read lot of good reviews! Sounds like it will have matured nicely for the beginning of autumn! yum! Cheers guys!

Is that because you don't like ginger or because it just wouldn't go! Which of the barleywine kits gives the best result - ive seen youngs, muntons and the woodfordes headcracker?

Hi, I was thinking of making the youngs barley wine. Do you think that adding ginger (ive got a bottle of the liquid ginger wine compound stuff) might produce a nice ginger beer? Could split it in two and add it to half only if it might taste odd! But i do quite like a wee ginger beer! Lynsey.

Hi, Im planning on making a Wheat beer next with coriander & curacao in it. I have pretty much a full bottle of triple sec hanging around.... would it alter the taste much to put some triple sec in instead of the curacao? Shouldn't be too much of i difference?... Thanks!

I got a new book for my birthday 'Home Brewing' by Kevin Forbes. There's a recipe in it for Belgian Lefe Blonde - it uses a Continental lager kit, plus 1.5kg pale malt extract, 500g glucose, 25g Saaz hops and ale yeast. I think it looks pretty interesting to give that a go! Does anyone know of...

It was for a beer kit that i used it - so it was only a small amount (3l?) that was actually boiled water - the rest was boiled and cooled water. For the first beer kit i did i spent a whole evening boiling water and keeping it in an extra fermentation bin overnight till it has cooled down to...

I recently used some 'value water' (think its Tesco everyday value) to make a brew of beer. And i have another 10bottles waiting in the sidelines as i have a 30bottle kit of wine raring to go! However... i was speaking to someone who said 'how can you use that?... its not sterile only filtered...

Hi all! Just a wee introduction! Myself and my Other half have been making 'things' for a year or so now! Kit wines (nice), hedgerow wines (sometimes nice... sometimes paint stripper-esk...), sloe gin/vodka etc, and recently completed two beer kits (st pauls - very nice! Nog, just in bottle so...