Search results

Thanks for all the replies. I might hold off a couple of weeks till the temperature starts to cool down. I know that one of the brews was on when we had that very warm spell a few weeks ago so that could be it. My first brew was done in may when it wasnt too warm. I used the yeast that came...

I hope someone can help. I am quite new to brewing. My first brew was a festival Razorback which turned out awesome. I then tried the festival Landlord. Everything went ok but when the beer was ready it had a banana aftertaste. I left it a while longer but still no change. So i tried another...

this one was the first brew I ever did and it was a great beer. I added a bit too much water the first time so it was only about 4.6%. I have just put another batch of this on but I steeped 500g of pale crystal in 3 litres of hot water before boiling. I added the correct amount of water this...

Thanks for the feedback. I will follow your advice and see how it turns out. I am probably going to try this in a month as soon as my current brew is bottled and out of the way.

Bottled this one up last weekend. Tasted great before it went in the bottles so i cant wait to try it in a couple of weeks. I put my second brew on yesterday - Festival Landlord and that is bubbling like mad already! Partial mash next!

Hi guys. I just bottled my first brew last week (Festival Razorback) and put my second brew on yesterday (Festival Landlord). For my next brew I want to have a go at a partial mash - that was ultimately why i started brewing. so here is my first recipe that i built in a recipe app and I would...

Added the hops after 5 days. Checked the gravity reading yesterday (after another 7 days) and it is right down to 1.004 from 1.04 so i guess it is almost there. I will take another reading tomorrow and plan to leave it till next weekend and bottle on Saturday. I tried the sample and it is...

Hi everyone. This is my first post about my first brew. I have been checking the posts on the site for a while but took the plunge at the weekend and got myself some equipment and started my first brew yesterday. I went for the Festival Ales Razorback IPA which was reccomended by Abbey Home...