What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Ive largely being put off pressure barrels by all the horror stories you hear on them but I confess I can see the appeal for really low carbonated English ales.

I have 11 King Kegs and have no problems with them at all. I did struggle in the early days like many people but got past all that.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Tonight Matthew, I'll be drinking a bottle of Wolf Rock by Sharp's.
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I thought I'd buy it because I've never tried it before. To be honest, it's a bit meh .

I think I'll have to follow it up with my Guinness clone or some dark lager (pilsner with a small addition of crystal).

Their Sea Fury is a beautiful ale but even there try the mini-keg rather than bottles.

 

[Leon103]

This is something I always wanted to know. Is keg beer superior to bottled beer. What is the difference

I find beer so much nicer from my cornie, tastes fresh longer from no oxygen, uv damage and not sat on the yeast. You can also control the carbonation

 

[Clint]

Obscure..the Deuchars...a favourite of mine!
Could I pinch your recipe please?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

This is something I always wanted to know. Is keg beer superior to bottled beer. What is the difference

I should say the difference you “experience” is that the kegged beer is perceived as being more flavoursome, having more body, and is softer/smoother.

Maybe if you get the carbonation right in the bottle the difference is less marked?

 

[samale]

I should say the difference you “experience” is that the kegged beer is perceived as being more flavoursome, having more body, and is softer/smoother.

Maybe if you get the carbonation right in the bottle the difference is less marked?

I am on the hunt for a chest freezer or larder fridge to build a kegerator. Slim pickings where I live.

 

[obscure]

Obscure..the Deuchars...a favourite of mine!
Could I pinch your recipe please?

It’s basically the Wheeler recipie though scaled to 11L

1.7KG Maris Otter
110g light crystal
70g wheat
Mash at 68 degrees (recipe calls for 90 minutes but I have seen no adverse impact of mashing for 60 minutes)

32g Fuggles (60 minute) original recipie is a 90 minute boil slightly Increased the hops and reduced the boil time no discernible impact between batches)
10g Styrian Golding 10 minutes

Yeast wise I used S-04.

 

[Clint]

That's great thanks!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I am on the hunt for a chest freezer or larder fridge to build a kegerator. Slim pickings where I live.

I don’t have a kegerator, just kegs.

 

[Clint]

How do you store 11 kegs?

 

[samale]

I am on the red wine for a change. I needed a bottle to steep prunes for my Saison. So I am polishing of the rest

 

[Leon103]

I don’t have a kegerator, just kegs.

Must be warm this time of year?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Must be warm this time of year?

They’re in a cool shed so not too bad - and I don’t like chilled ale. If it gets really hot I sit them on ice when we have company.

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

Just found a Trillium clone in the shed amongst the porters.... Happy days thought I'd supped it all

 

[strange-steve]

This Estonian IPA which is really good. A bit over carbed and a little too bitter for my taste, but definitely a good IPA.

 

[labrewski]

Lme dextrose comet Columbus some liquid kveik and a nice beer to send me to bed

 

[cushyno]

Lme dextrose comet Columbus some liquid kveik and a nice beer to send me to bed

Easy peasy.

 

[NormanHurst]

Just shared an 18 pint box of Abbey Ales Bellringer with 4 much missed chums in a garden over looking the city. I have missed beer and chat. The Bellringer was a spot on unpretentious bitter too. Absence has made the heart fonder.

 

[obscure]

Bag Seeds Lantern Rouge Red Ale (6.3%)

I bought this as a mini keg a few weeks ago, as I couldn’t finish it over the week end I transferred it to a half size corny keg, rather than let it go to waste. I think it has actually improved with a couple,of,weeks in a keg, the flavour has mellowed out, it was also a tad murky but has fully cleared a pleasant beer.

 

[Jim Brewster]