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Aside from making beer, i rock climb(less than when i was younger), canoeing, sea & fly fishing, gundog training but my real passion is pigeon shooting!

I don't mind a shepherds neame master brew. I would rather drink macerated **** than drink carling which is the drink of choice in the **** pubs in the hole i live in :-(

I'm an avid pigeon shooter, never shot a racer as i know my craft but it always makes me smile when a pack of racers come past, i wonder where they're going and how long they've been on the wing. How on earth do you teach a pigeon to race/find home

I had to give my allotment up when the kids came along. Your own veg is amazing!

I wouldn't pay £1.50 for a lettuce

Welcome, where abouts in west mids? i'm south birmingham Ollie

Cheers for the heads up

Welcome, i am looking forward to the HBF discount on your beers :) Good Luck, He Who Dares

I cleaned mine today(the number plate not the car:)), made that look spotless

+1 on the bench capper, never used the other type but i can tell i did the right thing going straight for the bench capper!!

Ask mates, get from pubs, save your own. Once you got a load its a case of adding here and there. I bit the bullet for my first lot and bought tim taylors, tough time emptying them :lol:

Morrisons sell 'bilingtons molasses sugar', two birds one stone?

Does adding stuff change the amount of yeast needed? Slightly nervous about going off piste as it were.. stick to the paths and stay off the moors and all that Thankyou

I think i will add dark spraymalt at the beginning, lactose after fermentation and prime with muscovado. How does that sound?

My pub of choice still shuts in the afternoon, it has one barrel of each ale and when its gone its gone until it(if) appears again in future, once a new barrel is set up its left to settle for the correct time and you always get a good pint at the right temp! A professional cellar and barman he...

Floyd for me, i love lots and lots of music and have quite a varied taste but i always return to pink floyd, puts me in a different place to other music!! Metallica, phil collins, kasabian, the boss, orbital are popular with me

Also how sweet does the lactose make the beer?? & does the molasses and muscovado sugar together not over carbonate the beer? i'm presuming the molasses adds to the priming Cheers

So much to learn!! cheers So this method is as we talked about on the other thread(12 week), Have i got this right? 2 wk primary 1 wk secondary 1 wk secondary with the addition of lactose 2 wk carbonation with muscovado and added molasses 6 wk+ cold conditioning Cheers so far guys

Im yet to brew one to full size, do them to 20.5ltr, what is the likely strength increase? and does it help with the body/feel of the beer Cheers for advice

Evening All, Will be brewing this next, will be my first stout! I notice people add things to the wort, treacle, muscavado sugar etc. Is this a good idea? and what quantity would i use say for the sugar? Just to clarify i'm not talking for priming here Cheers