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Pitched the yeast at 11pm last night; this morning it's off like a rocket. Got downstairs to a blocked airlock and a massively bulging lid on the fermenting bin. I spent most of yesterday with 'suspect device' as an earworm "inflammable material is planted in my head...". Jake Burns was clearly...

This is officially my final extract brew as I've yet to put in my grain order before moving over to the darkside. I had 3 kg of wheat DME to use up, so went for a straightforward weissbier. It's a suspect de-weiss because I have plans for it once fermentation has slowed down a bit. I'm planning...

Another success, been dipping into this one over the last couple of weeks. The US-05 has finally packed down, but a sideways glance is all it seems to need to be roused. I think I'll try MM's NBS West Coast and Mangrove Jack's West Coast for next couple of APAs. I'd say the Galaxy hops are most...

Any news on this? I'm planning on getting a wheat beer on in the next week or so and my kaffir lime tree is looking in good shape after a mild winter.

I assume it is the calcium levels. Calcium phosphate (or calcium hydrogen/dihyrdorgenphosphate at the pH levels we are concerned with) is not particularly soluble in water. I think the precipitate is this. I get it with my tap water, which is reasonably hard (high Ca2+ levels). In my opinion...

Why is storing the Star San solution a nono? It's not going to go off, you can reuse it, you don't need to faff around making up new sanitiser next time. I've recently converted to it (and a bottle tree and sloosher) and it is a Godsend, no more laborious rinsing of diluted bleach solution, a...

Bottling day yesterday. Big thanks to Santa for the bottle tree and sloosher, this combined with the newly acquired Star San meant bottling was a breeze. Beer was in the primary for 3 weeks, dry hopped (in primary) with ~12 g Citra and 12g Galaxy (all I had left) for the final 6 days. After 3...

Do you really mean in the boil? You don't want to boil the grains, otherwise you'll extract tannins. You need to steep the caramalt in some water at about 65-75C for half an hour or so before the boil; this extracts the flavour/sweetness/colour, then you need to remove them before starting the...

I made something that was very palatable, using wheat DME, a bit of oat malt, tettnanger hops, some coriander seeds and dried curacao orange peel. I used Brewferm Blanche yeast. Link to post below. Scroll down a bit for the final recipe and a shot of the finished article (I changed the recipe...

Not sure yet, so I didn't enter anything in Brewmate. I usually give it a week or so before adding dry hops. I won't have time to bottle this until it's been in the fv for at least 3 weeks, so I'll probably go for about a week before I bottle.

Looks an interesting one. I'd be keen to hear how the kaffir lime comes through in the flavour. Did you use fresh leaves? I have a kaffir lime tree that does well, so long as it gets to spend the winter in the conservatory. I'm tempted to use some in a small batch at some point, or split a batch...

In honour of our mustachioed plumber friend, this is something I planned to put on in the first week of January, it finally got brewed yesterday. It's a user-upper of the last of my barley DME (before the net curtains get used in anger) and remaining stock of citra and galaxy. Went for the same...

If a little bottler is like a bottling 'wand', then if you tilt the growler and touch the tip of the little bottler to the glass, then I imagine it would dispense the beer and fill without too much fuss. Running the beer down the side of the growler presumably won't cause much of a risk of...

Thanks for that, an interesting listen. He gives a surprisingly comprehensive description of how to brew 1845. I was moving away from the idea of trying to clone it, but I may well give it a go at some point this year, albeit without the temperature control. Cheers, I think Crisp is looking...

Some were from US discussion boards, some UK. If I remember correctly there was a more complicated recipe posted and someone commented that the head brewer of Fullers indicated somewhere or other (Jamil's show? For the love of hops book?) that it is essentially ~ 80% Simpsons MO, 10% crystal and...

At some point in the near future I'll be putting in a large order of grains for my switch to BIAB. I have many beers planned, probably too many, but one in particular would be an English Strong Ale in the style of Fullers 1845. I'm not sure whether I will try to recreate 1845, but I do want to...

This one's been conditioning for four weeks, so time for a taste. It's still young; however, this is definitely a winner. Cheers to graysalchemy for the inspiration. It would have been a lovely stout without the addition of elderberries, but with them there's that extra something. They don't...

Had a couple more of these at the weekend. Not quite crystal clear, but not far off if you can pour without rousing the US-05. This really is a cracking beer.

Apologies, I intended to post an update a week or so ago, took a photo of the first pint but forgot to comment on it. What can I say? It's a right Bobby Dazzler. Carbonation was spot on, taste and aroma amazing. Not quite as outrageously tropical fruity as my previous all-citra brew - I prefer...

Finally got around to bottling this after 4 weeks in the primary (not intended, just hard finding the time). The trial jar sample tasted pretty decent to me, a nice choclolaty/coffee taste with the fruit noticable but not overbearing. I think it's going to be a winner, it already feels like it's...