Hi from SW Scotland

akdunbar · Monday at 8:00 PM

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 plant I'd been feeding over the summer but not using, 1kg of sugar converted into invert with some citric and fermenting with a wine yeast.

* A 5L Turbo Cider using Tesco Apple Juice and wine yeast

* 1L Mason jar with Cider from apple tree (I messed up the prep of the apples hence only got about 1.5L of juice..

* 5L of an IPAish recipe I first made about 10 years ago with Chinook hops, that I call CH-47 (yes, I know, it's a terrible pun of a name)

* A Coopers lager kit that I'm thinking of dry hopping with some chinook

All the 5L batches are fermenting away in cheap Tesco 5L water bottles that I've drilled holes into the lid, added spigots and airlocks.

I'm hoping to make some more small batches over the coming weeks, before I succumb to buying some better equipment - it's kind of amazing how much stuffs available even compared to 10 years ago...