Recent content by Llanbrewer

How are you getting on? I've done a Beerworks Rocket IPA and just put on their Spire IPA today, so I'm interested in how yours is doing.

That's because he's heard you talk about "adding body" to the beer. :twisted:

Solicitor working part time with a view to retiring completely.

I've put some on the compost heap, and despite the fact that the local pheasants lurk there, they've ignored it and hang round under the bird feeders.

It's a bit like the Silicon Valley computer "hobbyists" wearing T shirts and trainers to disguise the fact that they've got five factories in China churning out the stuff to 80 countries.

As I'm swigging one as I type (well, I have put the glass down for a second) I'll do my best. I've been using the extract kits, so there's no boil involved. Dry hopping is done on the 5th day in the fv, and just consists of adding boiling water to the hops provided, and dropping them into the...

I'd brewed up a Guinea's Stout kit from LoveBrewing, and kegged it on day 11 and put the keg in a water bath for the carbonation. After about 36 hours the bath water was full of beer and the keg was floating. The bath temperature was high, so I switched off the immersion heater to slow/stop...

There seem to be lots of ways of adding hops. With the above kits from LoveBrewing, I crumble the hops into a jug as they come out of the packet. This is quicker than using a knife and the packet makes sure that my grubby mitts don't come into contact with the hops. I add the boiling water...

Your wife is coming up the stairs, and she wants a bath...........:mrgreen:

They have worked out that to sell the kits, they have to tell people that they will be necking it down within three weeks.

The airlock looks like something from "The Thing from Outer Space." :rolleyes:

I've just kegged some stout today at 1018. I had a taste from the hydrometer vessel, and it didn't taste particularly sweet. In fact it tasted pretty good.

Just be careful you don't end up milling chipboard by mistake. :whistle:

Judging by the photo, the fermentation is well under way, so I wouldn't worry about the lack of bubbles through the airlock.

When you switch it on, do all the lights in Burton on Trent go dim? :mrgreen: