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But Ed, that's what I've been doing all evening, getting nicely febuddled <hic> :cheers:

It was bottling day today. I fillled the twenty-two bottles I had prepared and could probably have filled three more. The surplus I have in a jug in the kitchen and I keep sampling it to make sure it's all right. The verdict: The colour is great, a lovely auburny brown. It's quite sweet and...

Some great suggestions there, I'd never have thought of milk. Or hairspray, not something that I tend to use on my hair but when living in Manhattan it proved effective against cockroaches.

What do others use to label their bottles? I shall be bottling at the weekend, I think. I'd like to put a good-looking computer-printed label (incorporating a scan of my own watercolour design) on the bottles. Obviously one requirement is that it won't be too difficult to remove the labels...

Update I've been good and left SitR alone for a week, but this afternoon I couldn't resist having a teensy peek. Just raising the edge of the lid for a second or two. Fermentation has subsided. It's hard to tell but the brew looks like it's a lovely warm mahogany colour. Best of all, the...

Another woman on board! Welcome Gabrielle!

Sixteen Tuns – Tennessee Ernie Ford Wort's Going On – Marvin Gaye I'm Only Steeping – The Beatles The Lambic Lies Down on Broadway – Genesis

Hello Sarah! It's good to see other women in here – we need to keep an eye on what all these men are up to ;) There's certainly been a rich harvest of slugs this year. In my retirement I'm working part-time in a market garden and we've been despairing of the little buggers. They like beer...

I should give it up as a bad job and tip it down the drain. You get what you pay for, IMHO and I've never found a beer in a tin that I really liked. Your beer drought might be an opportunity to support your local pub, especially if it's one that sells the products of one of your local small...

Ok I'll cover it with a towel and a pile of bathroom books to take my mind off it. 8-) Exciting innit! Good to find in this age of instant gratification that there are still pleasures that insist on being deferred.

So, my "September in the Rain" brew is now working away nicely with a lovely pad of yeast on the top. I was a bit worried as it seemed to take a while for anything to show at the top but now I'm sure it will be quite happy for a few days yet (just as well as I have a busy week ahead of me...

Yebbut the cat (see picture, her name's Tosca by the way) grabbed it and took it behind the sofa.

Friends again! :cheers: The beer mentioned in the introduction thread was meant to replicate a dark barley wine I made years ago when my daughter was a baby (she's 32 now!). It was brewed in the bucket until the yeast gave up with the alcohol content, then I decanted it into demijohns...

All right. I've had my tea and a good think. So let's set the record straight. :nono: I haven't asked anybody to apologise for being a man. Consider it possible that you were seeing patronage where there was none; certainly none was intended. Look, I spent most of my working life in a...

I imagine you'd do better for that in Scarborough.

And it didn't take long for some of the locals to forget themselves and prove my point :roll:

Well, thank you gentlemen for the warm welcome. But I think I've wandered into the wrong room. If you don't mind I'll take my drink to the other bar where they seem to be less po-faced and have more of a sense of fun. Sheesh!

Don't worry, he's just a bloke thinking of his last pint. I think it may have had some funny mushrooms in it ;) 8-)

William Blake was certifiably bonkers and a lot of his poetry is heavy going. It wasn't a good idea to cross him either. In a lot of ways he was ahead of his time, and a genuine radical. But you've got to love the idea of a City of the Imagination. Especially when applied to a brewing...

Right then. The debut brew of the Golgonooza[1] Brewery is underway. It's not the heady stuff I was intending to run, as mentioned in another thread. This brew, now dubbed "September in the Rain" (with due acknowledgements to Al Dubin and Harry Warren) after the weather outside, begins with...