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I bought myself a little gift of some smoked salt and smoked sugar for Christmas and looking into curing some meat and fish. The ingredients came with some methodology ideas and recipes, but also interested if anyone on here has done anything similar?

Ever since @strange-steve posted this funny craft w***er video here: What are you drinking tonight 2020., I’ve been thinking about brewing a Belgian Mild, and now I’ve decided that on my next double brew day it’ll be my small stove top brew. After going back and forth with what a Belgian Mild...

I’m wondering if there are any hobbyist astronomers on the forum? I’m looking into getting a beginners telescope, and something suitable for a 6 year old as well, and grateful for any recommendations in the £100-150 region.

Simple question: when making a starter with a liquid lager yeast (specifically in my case Wyeast 2487 Bock yeast) do you do it at lager yeast temperatures, say 12C? Or room temperature as I would normally do for an ale yeast starter?

I didn’t have a lot of idea what I wanted to brew beyond my next couple of brews so I decided to give the Brew UK yeast lucky dip a go and decide from there. For those who don’t know, they sell 5 liquid yeasts that are past their best before date for a tenner. I got a Wyeast Bock which is ideal...

Yesterday I had a brewday with no distractions and no time constraint. I am also past due to make this year’s long aged sour beer. So I decided to take on a more complex challenge and try my own version of the traditional lambic turbid mash. I thought it was worthy of a write up and some photos...

I’ve got a 2 handle bottle capper that is capable of capping 26mm or 29mm bottles. I’ve now got enough Lambic style bottles that I thought I’d do a gallon batch of sour into them. But buggered if I can reverse the capper. Does anyone have one of these and have you ever managed to successfully...

Happy Fe-brew-ary folks. It’s my pleasure to judge the February competition for which the category is dark beers. If you’ve got one you would like to enter, please send me a PM for my address. Judging will be in early March so plenty of time to get an entry in.

Fullers is selling its brewing and beer brands to Asahi to concentrate on its pub business https://www.investegate.co.uk/fuller-smith---38-turner--fsta-/prn/disposal-and-trading-update/20190125071534PB99D/

I bottled a Pilsner last night and was absolutely staggered by the change in the colour of the beer when I racked from the FV to bottling bucket. It went from being a clear golden colour in the FV to the offspring of a NEIPA and a hefeweizen in the bottling bucket. I’m completely mystified. All...

Inspired by the fact we are spending the night in a kids hotel and the beer list was rather, ahem, limited, I thought I’d throw open the floor to see what people think is the best of the ‘mass produced, available everywhere’ type lagers. I know what I think but I won’t lead the witnesses.

I’d like to get people’s opinion on what this berry is. It’s about the size of a blueberry. I saw it today on a bush in the park, in amongst a load of blackberry bushes, only this one has ripe fruit unlike the blackberries. I have an idea what I think it is, but I’d like other views so I won’t...

My wife bought me this book a few weeks ago. It’s not a ‘how to brew’ book by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s a pretty funny memoir and has some really nice ‘beer as life’ stuff that I imagine many of us could relate to. It’s laugh out loud funny at times too.

I’ve not been using a fridge for very long so not sure the answer to this question. I cold crashed a beer last week and it’s been at 0.5-1C for a week. Through a combination of work and laziness, it might be ten days total by the time I get round to bottling. Do folks think there will be enough...

I generally think these holidays are a bit silly and made up. But after getting a lie in this morning and then being presented with a cooked breakfast and two personalised beer glasses when I got downstairs, I’ll take it! :cheers7:

Sitting out in the garden on the first really warm sunny day of the year is good. Drinking a tasty beer while doing it is great. Knowing you brewed that beer yourself is even better. All of that, while also brewing, is about as good as it gets. Here’s to summer ladies and gents! (Except...

Brewdog beer from supermarkets in London is rubbish. There you go, I said it. I rarely buy Punk in particular because I think it tastes pretty bland. Doesn’t help that it’s not kept in the fridge. But this week I was in Barrow-in-Furness for a few days and my dad had stocked the fridge with a...

Does anyone happen to know if Duvel that we buy in shops here is imported or brewed under licence? I got given a bottle that had been bought in a shop in Belgium and at the first sip I thought it was different. But I could easily be playing tricks on myself.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B077DBKBQS/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I can across the above link on Amazon. Yes it's half off but at £90 it's a fair bit cheaper than the Klarstein counter top mini keg dispensers. I wondered if anyone had seen these or purchased one? I'd been considering...

What I really want to know is, has @Bigcol49 watched the NFC Championship game yet? :laugh2::loser: I try to always get the Monday off after the Super Bowl so I can stay up and watch the game. This year I'm still on parental leave so my wife has taken the day off so I can recover! Last year I...