HI All,
Has anyone brewed the golden summer beer recipe from the home-brew handbook (Dave law and Beshlie Grimes)? Im thinking of brewing it this weekend but the original gravity and final % seems off to me? The original gravity is 1073 and final is 1010 giving a %of only 4.5%. Surely an...
the last coupe of years my brews have not been their best and i got a water report from Murpheys. I followed their guidelines for Water treatment but never that happy. Ive recently done a brew (big Kenny) following the procedure outlined at the beginning of the post and the beer was fantastic...
drinking my Adnams southwold clone. Last pint or so from my keg which i tapped at new years. Surprised its still tasting great, air hasn't affected it at all!
HI All,
i seem to have lost my original book by Graham Wheeler for "british real ale " and in it there is a recipe for Adnams best using caramel and sugar additions. Is it possible, if anyone has it, to pm me the recipe? Its always been the best recipe for this fantastic beer and i've lost it...
I've used all sorts of brass objects to weigh down my bags:shock:
Im hoping the hop rocket will replace the need for dry hopping. Im doing a Punk spa clone tomorrow so i might split it into two batches - hop rocket one and dry hop the other:-)
Hi All,
I'm still in the early days of using my Hop Rocket and wondered whether anyone knows whether using a hop rocket after the boil when transferring into the FV is better (for nice hoppy aroma) than dry hopping? I've always found it difficult to fully submerge my hops in muslin bags...
Sounds ok to me. I would also raise the temp to 19 for a diacytle (not sure if spellings right!) rest to clean up the taste and then on to the lagering. I made one this summer and my German friends from Cologne verified its taste! Lovely clean and fresh tasting! I left mine for 4 weeks at 0.5c