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Oh Breó, where art thou? Were you to spend any time in Ireland in the late ‘90s you may have come across that elusive white whale that was Guinness Breó. Advert for Breó Guinness spent about £5 million marketing this white whale of a beer, launched in 1998 and abruptly ending it in 2000...

Thought I'd jump in and bore anyone who stumbles over this thread... I'm just getting back into home-brew after sometime away - not that I did a massive amount back then - and very much regard myself as a newbie with just a little bit too much arrogance and overconfidence in his meagre abilities...

Oh, I know. I once spent 10 minutes arguing with it over something or other - can't remember what, I think it had something to do with The Wonder Stuff. In the end it had to conced that I was right and it was wrong...

Whilst enjoying a glass of Riesling this evening, I started wondering if it would be possible to make something that mimic it. Now, I have never before attempted to make a wine so really don't have much of a scoobie about how to go about it. I know I could have spent time searching this site...

The minimum equipment you need for all grain is a pan to heat the water, a bag to hold the grain, and a fermentation vessel, and really, you could probably be able to manage without the bag though things may get messy...

Week off work so perfect day for bottling... Ginger beer at the moment which, if I've calculated properly, is about 10%. Nice kick from the cayenne tincture I added to it. Only nine bottles, but it's rekindled my hatred of capping - I always fear the bottle is going to slip out from...

A bit further south in Annan.

Hi there... I'm returning to home brewing after about ten years away. Whilst I can be as analytical as the rest - BSc in Chemistry albeit thirty years ago... - I am very much a FiaS* type of brewer. I have a number of wee, cheap, projects on the go at the moment: * 5L GInger Beer using a...