Recent content by Jcdonnan

Got my water all wrong with the stout, ended up with 15litres in fv, og of 1085. Neipa currently chilling, looks like I'm a few litres short in it aswell!

It's been about six months since my last brew so going to squeeze in 2 today! 1st mash is currently going, it's an imperial stout though it is a bit risky as I have no idea what the grain bill is, I bought the grain about 4 months ago from get we brewed custom kits, it was never used due to...

Just wondering if anyone in belfast would be interested in bottle swaps? Would be interesting to hear other people's opinions on what I'm brewing.

Still can't work out these pictures. Everyone I post is rotated somehow. On another note the 200 fathoms is amazing.

Looking forward to trying these later

Random question, but as a background, I found 4 bottles of westmalle dubbel out in the shed last week. Out of date in 2014, had 2 tonight with a bottle of the same stuff that was in date. Honestly the difference was unreal, the out of date stuff was far better, far more complex flavours, in...

Tesco got in the guinness Antwerpen stout so 2 bottles of it, a redwell kofra stout also new in Tesco and a farmageddon India export porter. Maybe some homebrew after that.

Yeah seals all checked and lubed so hopefully ok, I'll soon see.

Completely get what your saying but I'm aiming for a ris which should finish above 1.020. I brew a lot of big stouts all grain and my fg is usually around 1020 with no problems although I've never used a pressure barrell before. Bottled a brewdog tropic thunder clone yesterday aswell with a fg...

The link myqul put up on second post where coopers say, expect final gravity to be quite high, around 1022, and that's with 1kg brewing sugar. I used 1kg brown sugar and a tin of black treacle so 1026 ain't far off it really. All those links are 1 can kits, I used 3 cans in mine.

Yeah planning to do this, it's a brand new pressure barrell so hopefully it holds pressure ok

Stuck it in the pressure barrell yesterday, got down to 1026 so not far off what coopers say and I expected it to finish quite high. About 9% in the end. Got about 18l in pressure barrell with 70g table sugar! It'll be tucked away now till Xmas. Hopefully will come out ok, just tasted of alcohol...

Evening all, quick question, I done a 3 kit imperial stout as an experiment, 2 coopers stout and 1 coopers lager with 500g muscovado and 500g brown sugar and a tin of treacle to 22l, got an og of 1094. It's been fermenting about a month, was gonna put it in a youngs pressure barrel I have...

Just an update on this, time really is a wonderful thing. Opened a mini keg of this end of last week, in keg near 2months and it has turned out really nice, a bit under carbed but spot on. Drank over 3 nights, it was bout 7.5%. Bitterness had mellowed off, nice orange smell and some spice from...

A mini keg of my new year beer from Brooklyn brewshop book! Been in keg for 2months and is very nice, at 7.5% though I may not finish it tonight