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Hello again. Some of you might remember me before I moved house and stopped brewing. I'm back with a question and I hope not a problem. I had done about forty some brews of all grain beer and all but one were successful. Not all were great beers, but I pretty much had the technique so I am not...

I've been REALLY enjoying my American Pales with those fruity hops and I did a bit of reading around the hop oils that give those flavours and aromas. From what I can gather the flavour oil I prize so much is Mycene. We all know those flavours and aromas evaporate with too much boiling, and I...

Beer made with discarded bread.... Hmmmm. Toast Ale By Hackney Brewery. www.toastale.com From their website "We source beautiful, fresh bread that would otherwise be wasted. We give new life to artisan breads that are unsold by bakeries at the end of the day. We find a loving home for...

Anybody growing hops successfully? I've seen the odd comment about it and thought other people might be like me and just starting to have a go and could maybe do with advice from folk who have already worked out the problems. I just received three roots of Prima Donna from Willingham...

Last week I knocked out a pretty standard English IPA style beer - big grain bill and big body. I tasted the sample jar this morning after a week fermenting with Gervin Ale yeast at about 20c. REALLY pleased with what is developing. Here's the recipe and method with mashing (no bag) in my Ace...

About six or seven weeks ago, I was brewing a hoppy APA and my boiler filter clogged up. Since I was working on a foul night up the garden in the shed and in the poor light of a 60watt incandescent bulb, I got disgusted and more or less giving up, I just baled the whole contents of the boiler...

My last brew - based loosely on a couple of Greg Hughes recipes but seriously adapted has turned out really nicely. It's a hoppy, fresh ale that is going to go down a storm with my boys at Christmas. Lest Child Line feel concerned, the 'boys range in age from 28 - 35, so you can discard images...

Totally stupid, but there you are. I admit it. I had been trying to save some yeast from a brew made a few weeks ago. I had brought on a bit of yeast and when it had fermented out the spare wort I put in the 5 litre plastic water bottle, I just left it in there under the 'beer' it had made out...

I was REALLY hacked off few weeks ago to discover that my barrel of lovingly crafted and much anticipated Summer Ale All Grain Brew had gone entirely flat. I couldn't work this out and immediately suspected the rubber seal. I replaced the rubber and re-primed. Five days later - nothing. No...

Thought I'd make an 11 litre English IPA brew based on the Greg Hughes book. I basically halved his quantities for 23 litres and substituted his suggested bittering hop 'Challenger 7%' for one I already had - Progress 6.8%. I also reduced the bittering hop a bit since 60IBU is quite a lot...

Have you found flat beer in your Young's type keg after carbonation and maturing? Yes - what a disappointment. Has the barrel been used a time or too, and the washer under the cap become distorted? Me too - I have two brews flat as can be - I'm fuming, but what do you expect when you buy...

A while back, I bought a 25kg sack of milling wheat for bread making. Made some progress using it up, but have about ten or fifteen pounds of it left. I fancy trying a wheat beer, and have discovered that you don't even need to malt the wheat if you keep the proportion below about fifty percent...

Final view on my Geterbrewed raffle prize kit. If you saw my brew day report on this kit, you may know that because at the time, I only had a 12l pot to brew in, I split the full 26litre kit in half and made two brews out of it. The first brew I did according to the directions as near as I...

Thinking of brewing something like the Pale Ale recipe in the Greg Hughes book. Extra Pale Malt 4.3kg Light Crystal 0.95kg Challenger 35g 60 mins EKG 23g turn off Styrian Golding turn off I don't have the styrians or Challenger, and I don't have Extra pale malt so I was thinking...

Decided to have a go at cider making from supermarket juice. Went around to Aldi to try and find some cheap apple juice, but the only cheap stuff was made from concentrate so lashed out on £0.90 a litre cloudy apple juice.... Not so cheap, but I want it to work. I came home and blitzed 500...

A couple of years ago, Lampie and Drewlincs and others had a thread about a prosseco type drink made with the following recipe: I fancy trying this because they and others said it came out very well. Could I get away with a cider yeast like Gervin GV13? The alcohol levels aren't likely to be...

Been thinking a little while about doing a Golden Ale from a recipe in the Hughes book. I was going to do it on Sunday when the lady is in York with her friends so as not to be in the way in the kitchen, then today, I thought about making a little bit of space in a corner of the shed. In fact...

Some of you may be more used to using a thermometer to measure the temperature of a liquid than I am. I never worked in a lab, or a factory where I needed to take temperatures to an accurate degree - not until I was trying to mash my malt at 68C did I need to bother about stuff like this. But...

Some of you may be more used to using a thermometer to measure the temperature of a liquid than I am. I never worked in a lab, or a factory where I needed to take temperatures to an accurate degree - not until I was trying to mash my malt at 68C did I need to bother about stuff like this. But...

Heatwave coming (at least by UK standards). How to keep FV down below 22C? Living up at 55 N, I don't have much need for aircon and my landing brewing cupboard more usually has to be kept warm for fermentation. Not this week and even more so next week. I have two brews fermenting in there - my...