Search results

The other half introduced herself to someone at Loughborough Beer Festival yesterday afternoon and asked if he made home-brew, as I did. Turns out it was John Wood, the original founder of Oakham Ales way back in 1992 (she has a habit of dropping herself in it. She went into the Post Office...

Am I the only one who gets excited when, 24 hours after extraction, I shake my newly extracted bottled yeast jar, crack it open and it makes an escaping gas sound. This evening, I even give a little whoop. Especially satisfying where I really don't think it'll work. Sad, sad, sad. Sorry.

Does anyone know if its possible to restart fermentation again after finings have been introduced and the fermenter been cold crashed for three days. I had a bit of a mix up and added the finings to the wrong fermenter and only noticed today when I was about to bottle. Took a refractometer...

I'm updating my brewing system to a three pot gravity fed system ready for winter which will hopefully require a little less intervention in the cold and rain. Why shouldn't I use a piece of drilled 22mm copper pipe as a hop filter? Will I be copper poisened or will it just affect the taste...

After thirteen brews and several months, I have had to retire my 11g packet of Danstar Nottingham yeast. It has been replaced by these little beauties, WLP001 and WLP002 from The Malt Miller. They are currently residing with a packet of frozen peas wrapped in bubble wrap to keep them cool until...