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Bure Gold is Woodfords latest addition to there excellent range. Very appealing packaging, inciting the mists over Norfolks river Bure. Two tin kit with yeast and two very small 20g packets of Hops, to be added after 4 days fermenting, So off i went, made up the kit and used the crossmyloof ale...

South African President Jacob Zuma has just bought the worlds most luxurious Plane costing 40 million dollars. This ******* is swanning around in this super jet when the USA, and UK Are giving them billions in foreign aid to feed the starving and this toe rag is spending millions on palaces...

I have a oktoberfest fermenting on a White labs WLP820 Oktoberfest yeast, and have been thinking of mixing a couple of kits i got cheap, a sundew and a scottish heavy and brew to 30ltr , but put it on to the oktoberfest yeast when i rack it off. Looking for a low hop high malt beer. i have...

Just cracked my Festive U.S Steam Beer tester, been conditioning 4 weeks, Chilled down perfect, poured nice and clear, decent holding head and tasted like a mouth full of Nail Varnish. Looks like its down the bog with 40 pints of beer for the first time in 37 years of brewing. Dont have no...

Just made a 2kg batch of Dark candi sugar its like black glass, Tastes sweet and like rich bonfire toffee, with different back flavours like prune and molasses. The good lady came in sucking a piece and said this is good stuff. Going to use it on a Belguim Oud Vlaams Bruin. (old brown ale)...

Hello all. This afternoon i steeped 300g of Simpsons DRM and 100 g Imperial Malt. After straining into my brew i looked at the remains it smelt lovely. I took a mouthful and it tasted nice , Apart from bird feed or garden compost , there must be some uses for this , maybe adding to flour and...

Has any one added lactose to bitter say a woodfords wherry, 100g when racking into secondary , to add a slight sweetness and increase body ???????.

This afternoon i took a Lager off the yeast (saf 23 Lager yeast) into secondary to clear and relax. The yeast looked very clean and smelled beautiful. So i opened a tin of Coopers Mexican Cerveza made it up with 1kg of Extra light spray malt, the yeast from the kit which is a Ale Lager yeast...

Has any one made the Brew Barrel Oktoberfest and Bavarian lager kits, and does any one know the yeast types in these kit, i will be making both in the next couple of weeks and debating on changing the yeasts :thumb:

Woodfords wherry kits £17.95 at brew bitz home brew shop free postage over £60

Has we stuff our selves stupid ,please just take a minute or so to reflect how lucky we are. I dont need to list things to think about, we all know what is happening in this world and indeed close to home, so has you take that bite of your hot mince pie and cream, washed down with an excellent...

Feel extremely stuffed and still got the cheese and port to go. brussels, kale, peas and roast parsnips (i love greens grow all my own veg and fruit) are brewing better than any yeast, then the home made xmas pud with clotted cream and ice cream, along with a few beers early doors ,(yard arm...

I have 40 pints of New Zealand Pilsner blonde fermenting made with 1kg light spray malt and a 100 grams brewing sugar i had spare, used a saflager s 23 yeast. I am going to split it in two lots when its finished and dry hop with two different hops these are my chosen types. Any advise on which...

Got back from Cropwell Bishop creamery this Afternoon with a Quarter wheel of there Finest Stilton, a big chunk of soft Beauvale Blue and a big nog of Extra Mature cheddar,I will be fertling amongst my stock of ales , ports and sweet dessert wines, and matching up with the cheese , The crackers...

Lads get lager making its perfect lager yeast weather, dont miss this chance perfect 11-13 degrees for a saf lager yeast :thumb:

Any information on this Beer will be welcome , looking to increase toffee malty taste with slight sweetness, will brew with 500g light spray malt and 500g brew enhancer with half tin black treacle and yet to be decided amount of boiled oats, This is just an idea please feel free to re adjust any...

Does any one know of any uk available wine kit that uses the moscato ,muscat, or orange muscat grape juice, there widely available in the USA but can't find any thing here in th U.K. I wonder if there not imported , any one have any info please.lneed the juice to make a Asti type sparkler for...

I have Bought 6 different bottles of Hatherwood craft beers,With descriptions of tropical hops golden malts etc waxing lyrical on the back of the bottles. So far drank 3, so will review those to start. No1 was Golden Goose.took me an hour to drink the bottle not impressed. just drinkable. No 2...

Can some one recommend a top class lager kit either a German type or some thing close to a San Miguel. I like bright sparkling pale lagers not the stella heavy alcohol types. Think i will have a glass of Ciderworks Apple cider over ice before lunch . might even have two or three ,

This is a superb kit easy to make and the cider is mega nice better than any commercial cider, it taste a little like Stowfords press but more apple taste and more fizz (give it plenty of sugar when bottling to get that fizz) i make it med sweet and to 21 Litres instead of 23 Litres. totally...