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Well, after trying Clibit's suggestion for an all grain stovetop brew, I was delighted with the results! I went into my LHBS yesterday (www.Brewstore.co.uk) and opened a grain account. Basically you buy a 25kg sack of grain and can then 'call-off' of that 25kg in any quantity or variety you...

Having a taste, very good! Not the clearest beer I've made, but no finings used & not sure I got a good hot break. I tipped everything (except hops) from the boil into the DJ too, do you normally try and leave the real true in the boiling pot? My 15L el cheapo pot arrived too, but no time to...

Oh yes & yes. After 9 days it tastes better than some kit brews after 9 weeks!! Ready to bottle, cleared quite well from where it started! This is the dregs with a bit of yeast, alongside a Cooper's Mexica Cerveza I made last year. 8 500ml bottles now conditioning!

Well I checked the FG today as it looked like fermentation had slowed. Looks like 1010, which given the 1050 starting gravity makes it around 5.3%. I used US-05, which went off like a rocket. The sample tasted good - better than other samples I've had at this stage! Think I'll get it bottled...

I just did my first AG brew this afternoon, after being inspired by this post and getting the ingredients a few weeks ago! I had 1kg of Marris Otter, and used 5g if Galena for bittering (came across it as a Cascade alternative last year) and 10g of Cascade as flavour hop. Had a bit of fun...

Are they not the 29mm caps, same as champagne bottles, that can be bought & fitted using a bench capper?

Well, after a week in the warm and a few hours out into the garage, the first pint is going down rather well!

So, after two weeks the gravity had settled at 1012ish, so I bottled this on Saturday with my little helper. 38 bottles of loveliness in less than an hiur, thanks to batch priming, starsan, bottle tree & bottling stick!

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LOL! PMSL!! What a typo that was!

So, a week later and the gravity is down to 1014, so I sterilised another FV and syphoned the beer into it. I took a few litres and brought to the boil, then added 30g of Columbus in a Muslim hop sock and steeped for 10mins. Added this back into the FV and it smells lovely now! I've also made...

After a wee break in home brewing, I'm back at it! I got a voucher for Craft Beer Kitchen for my birthday, so brewed a Red IPA, which is really quite tasty & got me thinking about brewing again! http://www.stewartbrewing.co.uk/craft-beer-kitchen/ I sorted through my bottles and gave a few...

Hi folks, Not been on here for a while as I haven't been doing kick brewing. I'm going to get a brew on this week, but need to clear some space in my garage. I have over 300 bottles, all brown, rinsed and drained. Mostly 500ml, but a few boxes of smaller ones. I want these to go and be used...

4.5 gallons of Coopers Mexican Cerveza Total 3764.5 gallons

Yes, I didn't wand a lot of bittering, so did 15 mins to extract flavour.

I did a black IPA using a better brew kit, light DME, 250g carafa special black malt cold steeped for 8 hours in a litre of water. I boiled the black malt water with 30g of cascade for 15mins & then dry hopped with another 30g Cascade after primary fermentation. Turned out pretty good!

Well, after being rather busy over the last few weeks I bottled this last night. It smells very sweet, strawberry candy floss like, but tastes like strawberry beer. The sediment was rather liquid, so got a fair amount into the first & last bottles. The ones in between look fairly clear, so we...

70g of hops wouldn't fit in the muslin 'hop sock' I've got. I did consider using 50g in the boil and the remainder as a dry hop, but 30+30 seems to work ok.

:cheers: Thanks for the feedback GA.

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