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anyone got any tips? I'll stick a few quid each way on a few randoms, can't see any with Thistle colours though! I'm going for; One in a Milan as my outsider, 66/1 The Rainbow Hunter 33/1 Balthazar King 20/1 Double Seven 7 14/1 Long Run 12/1 good luck and here's hoping the horses are...

alright folks, decided to do a double brewday this weekend. I have brewed a Jaipur IPA clone before which was very good but decided to try it again with a slightly different recipe. I've named it Jagpur after Thistle's nickname the Jags as I did before but added Mark II as I'm Mark and its my...

Hi folks, I'm looking at a recipe but it only gives the % of the hops used and doesn't tell you the grams, or the overall amount of hops to use as it is just a general guide for brewing any size of batch I suppose. I use brewmate software where it will lets you calculate the grain bill by % but...

alright folks,I thought I would post this after having a few pints at a pub on Friday night and not being too impressed, it's not that the pints were off its just that they were a bit flavourless and *****! firstly I'm not a beer snob, I brew AG beers but I like them to have a bit of flavour, as...

Hi folks, decided to brew last night so I put on an overnight mash. It was all tucked up at 22.45 at 65 degrees C, got up this morning to start at 09.45 and it had went down to about 56 degrees. I was originally going to do an SNPA clone but I had a few different bags of malt left I wanted to...

Hi folks, decided late last night to brew, so stuck on an overnight mash and boiling the wort today. I fancied trying something different from the hoppy pales and decided on an 80 Shilling. I used Dunfie's recipe that he brewed a while ago here -...

Hi folks, brewed 2 batches this weekend, I'm not sure if its batches 18 & 19, it might be 17&18, who knows. First up was a pre-made stout ingredient kit from the homebrew company so I don't know the exact recipe. the second was a pale ale that I made up myself. I mashed the stout on Friday...

Hi guys, not seen anything posted about chat yet?will chat be open out of hours over the xmas hols? cheers merry xmas!

Hi Folks just noticed today Brewdog are doing their beer and cheese tasting offer for 2, only £25 but theres ltd availability and it ends tonight I think.get in there quick.u get a good few scoops plus money off a few beers on the day! good wee xmas pressie!

Hi folks, I brewed AG#15 last week but forgot to post about it and take photos, I brewed AG#16 today, a take on Wez's Big Kenny recipe, although I had to substitute a few things so I've name it after my old man, Big Boab(Scottish for Bob). recipe was: 4465g Marris Otter 240g Wheat Malt 100g...

Hi Folks, decided to brew today as Thistle were playing last night, had a cracking brew day and finished in time for Soccer Saturday! I had a brewers assistant in the form 'alawlor66430' from the forum aswell who came over to see how an AG brewday works, he brought over a few brews to try which...

Hi guys, I'm looking for some recommendations for a hot water pump for recirculating hot mash water and also for pumping the boiling wort to the counterflow chiller and back for sanitising. I've just been doing it through gravity but it's a bit of a pain to get it started. if you can recommend...

2995g pale malt 415g lager malt 1KG flaked barley 500g roasted barley. hops 38g of Target @ 60mins I knew I was getting to the end of my pale malt but still thought I had around 3.5KG of it left so had to fire in some lager malt instead.90 min mash (done last night) 60 min boil today. the...

anyone ever made or tried hopped cider? I first heard of it from a guy I watch on YouTube called 'big secue' that does the home brew Wednesday vids. I've had a magnum pear cider kit in the house for about a year now, I decided to brew it to 22 litres with 1kg brewing sugar, og was only 1.038...

hi folks, Thistle are playing Gateshead in a pre season friendly in Durham in July, does anyone know and good pubs around Durham for a few pre or post match ales nr the train stn? cheers

hows it going troops, brewing again tonight/ tomorrow morn. done the mash and sparges tonight, just got to boil tomorrow. recipe is 3.5kg pale malt 500g lager malt 250g caramalt 25ebc 250g wheat malt my laptop is Donald Ducked so just making these recipes up without knowing the og etc, should...

hi folks, not been posting as much as my laptop died then was fixed but died again,writing this on my iPhone. Decided to stick on a mash tonight with 4 kg of pale malt and do the sparge tonight aswell, will keep the wort in my boiler under lid and airlock and do the boil when I get back from...

Hi Folks, yes, the Abester is brewing once again. I'm off tomorrow and I have a free cornie so thought I may aswell brew something to fill that bad boy. no real method in my recipe madness, a sort of English IPA, apart from the Vienna malt, which is presumably Austrian! i had open bags of...

Hi folks, dry hopped one of my pale ales with 50g of Galaxy pellets on Wednesday night, straight into the fermenter after fermenting down to 1.006. here's what it looks like now..... it smells feckin awesome!

Hi folks, decided at 11pm last night to stick an overnight mash on and brew Sunday. overnight mash, 60 min boil recipe was: 4kg Marris Otter 254g wheat malt hops: Magnum 20g @ 60 Magnum 10g @ 5 Simcoe 10g @ 5 Magnum 5g @0 Simcoe 20g @ 0 Amarillo 20g @ 0 ended up with 22 litres at 1.042. used...