Recent content by Brett

We have life, 3 out of 4 plants have stuck their heids oot. happy days.

YES! with my fat hands i managed to shatter a hobgoblin bottle. I now check the necks of all bottles and bin any that dont work well with my capper.

used coffee grinds for slugs, a night time scourge with a head torch works wonders

Fife for life.

So if beer was a sandwich......... your base malts would be the bread (white, brown, wholemeal, etc) and your hops would be the filling (cheese, ham, coronation chicken) your speciality grains would be the sauce/garnish if you chose to have it (mustard, tomato). Its a sandwich without but you...

So I'm planting mine tomorrow. Bit of an experiment, am I possibly the most northern in Dundee? I have a nice high south facing wall at the yard at work, gets the sun all day, well..... at least for the one day of sun we get. Fuggles and Challenger

..................we're gona need a bigger shed!

do you guys leave the filters on?

I converted a 5 gallon fermenter to a kettle, I can boil 23l + dead space max safely and I expect to loose around 4-5l through evaporation so will sparge the grains with 4l and add as space allows.

Ok, cheers for the advice. if I drop DME to 3kg and crystal to 0.25kg, brings it down to 5.2%

My first Extract recipe. 'Amarillo Ale' Pale Ale batch 22.0l OG 1.059 FG 1.015 ABV 5.8% 60m boil dry malt 3.3kg crystal malt 0.275kg Amarillo 25g 60m Amarillo 13g 30m Amarillo 13g 5m Irish moss First time playing with hops so using single variety to experiment with timings and effects.

What was your recipe? gathering ingredients for my first extract and want to compare as many as poss.

I'm keen on this too, my mate is getting married and I promised him a couple of brews for it. He has specified some thing Birds & Bees style'ee. how do you sanitise elder flowers? I was thinking of dry hopping with a heap of them.

ok, so the suggestion of spending money on a big shiny pot to 'just to brew beer...' (she doesn't get it) didnt go down too well. however i did manage to slip two budget kettles into the shopping basket and have resorted to turning plastic fv into standard type boiler. shiny will have to wait...

Yeah, but pregnant wife may may have somthing to say when we got stuff like prams to buy. All ready have an fv I could use, but would it melt?