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This year Norwich Amateur Brewers are going after 'Beers of Britain and Ireland' as the theme for our annual BJCP homebrew competition. We are calling it 'These Ales of Wonder'. Let me know if you get the reference. Once again we will be hosted by the amazing Ampersand Brew Co top brewers of...

Coffee. I like high quality single origin coffee, with a light roast. This can offer flavours of strawberry, blueberry and citrus etc - it is with the darker roasts that the caramel and, well, roasted notes come in. I was gifted a lovely knock grinder for Christmas (made in the UK), and get...

Us fools in Norwich Amateur Brewers are having our homebrew festival very soon. All to raise money for our charities of the year - ManUp (men's mental health) and the East Anglian Air Ambulance. Our TapList is looking lush: NAB Festival 2023 Quite a few breweries in attendance doing tutored...

...when all we want is a clean fermentation with no by products. I suppose there are differences in attenuation. tolerance and flocculation, but these seem secondary properties. A lot of brewers I know choose lager yeasts based on their 'quick' characteristics (eg Novolager, 34/70, Lutra...

Martin Brungard is doing an online talk on water chemistry this week 23/3/23, Thursday 11pm UK time (I think) Simplified Brewing Water Chemistry & Beer Styles - Crowdcast IIUI, you don't have to contribute financially. Also, if you register, you get a link to the replay you can watch over and...

Norwich Amateur Brewers have just launched their annual homebrew festival! 24 different homebrewed beers on our custom bar. All for charity (air ambulance + men's mental health charities). Tutored tastings with big east anglian breweries, educational sessions with CAMRA..... You know you all...

As the title says...'Who is going to BrewCon' this year. Ancillary questions might be 'Who is judging?' Friday? Saturday? and 'Who is doing club night?' there is a late bar to 1am.. a thread for all things BrewCon 2022

It's commonly held that for long term storage of our 'big' beers, we need to use glass rather than plastic. But is it true? I have in front of me two bottles of Dubbel beer, same batch, each one year old - one glass, one plastic. This afternoon I will open both / photograph / taste / comment...

A couple of months ago, I did a split batch and tested out 6 hefe yeasts. It was a bit of work but fun. So, I scratched my head - what could I do next? Hardy soul @keith1664 has put so much time and work into malt comparisons - brewing (I think) 8 separate batches from scratch - but I don't...

Need some help here. I'd like to customise some beer glasses for club use - nothing too complex, just a branded dated pint glass for the monthly beer swap winner, and a wooden spoon glass to take the **** out of the poor sod who came last! A bit of light internet research suggests that there...

NAB Proposed Exbeeriment – Hefeweizen Yeasts – exbeerimental design phase Aim: To compare performance and flavour of a range of yeasts in a hefeweizen. (brew 24l, split into 6 batches of 4l, ferment in demijohns) Recipe (basically James Morton Hefeweizen recipe) OG 1048 FG 1012 ABV 4.8%...

Background Early in 2020, @keith1664 (one of our number) hacked a 10lt tea urn, added a grain basket and wired in a grainfather connect controller. His aim was to have a piece of kit that could be used to quickly and simply make 5l of wort – to prototype beers, or to create beers for...

Hi Folks, Just ordered 2M HCl, and 1M H2SO4 from APC Pure (UK). Some of the folks in Norwich Amateur Brewers reckon on using these acids to reduce alkalinity and balance ions all in one go. Our water here has a residual alkalinity of c230ppm, and Cl c50ppm, SO4 c50pp, Ca 125ppm - general...

HI folks, Advice please. Recently moved from basic 3 vessel (tea urn, cool box, FV with kettle element) to a single vessel system (Brewmonk). I'm now not getting as much head as i used to. So: - anyone else experienced this - what solutions did you use - things to think about or try Best...

Lost track of things, to discover I had agreed to brew a low abv mild for an upcoming event. Want medium to low attentuation to give body and keep abv down. So, S04 would be one option, windsor another.....recommendations please. Thanks MArtin

I use 19l cornies, but could do with some smaller solutions for events. 6.6l cornies are very expensive, so was wondering about minikegs combined with these ball-lock lids. They seem to vary in price from £20 to £50... Anyone here used them? Thanks Martin

Are any of you lot going to do this? <lots of different brewing clubs / offering sharing each others beers> Our team - Norwich Amateur Brewers - will be bringing lots of beer down on the train.... Martin

Hi Folks, The September beer competition for Norwich Amateur Brewers will be on the theme of 'fruit'. I'm toying with the idea of doing something with cucumber and lemonbalm. Not got much further yet....... So, I'm thinking of a saison - light and refreshing. Not too much in the way of hops...

https://www.hoteleleven.top/ Came up on my facebook feed. Anyone know anything about them? I know, I know, if it looks too good to be true it probably is....but still.... Martin EDIT by Admin - Please read the full thread before you place an order. .

Brewed a Wit recently. Recipe attached. Wyeast 3944 Belgium Wit. Has turned out with a smoky aftertaste. No idea what caused it. One person who tasted it said it was probably the yeast. Any thoughts? Martin