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This is officially my final extract brew as I've yet to put in my grain order before moving over to the darkside. I had 3 kg of wheat DME to use up, so went for a straightforward weissbier. It's a suspect de-weiss because I have plans for it once fermentation has slowed down a bit. I'm planning...

In honour of our mustachioed plumber friend, this is something I planned to put on in the first week of January, it finally got brewed yesterday. It's a user-upper of the last of my barley DME (before the net curtains get used in anger) and remaining stock of citra and galaxy. Went for the same...

At some point in the near future I'll be putting in a large order of grains for my switch to BIAB. I have many beers planned, probably too many, but one in particular would be an English Strong Ale in the style of Fullers 1845. I'm not sure whether I will try to recreate 1845, but I do want to...

It's a double brew weekend as SWMBO and the children are at the Outlaws for the first few days of half term. A moan-free weekend of brewing. This was today's effort: an elderberry stout/porter. No roasted barley, so I don't suppose I'm allowed to call it a stout? Picked the elderberries a few...

Another dimension, another dimension. It was all Galaxy for yesterdays brew. Working my way through my stocks of DME before I take delivery of 25Kg of MO and move over to the darkside. Wanted something pale and hoppy, so went for an all Galaxy pale ale with a bit of caramalt and carapils. First...

As The Fall is upon us ah, and temperatures are more conducive to brewing ah, I'm planning on knocking up a merkin-style stout/porter affair at the weekend ah. Thoughts? Too much chocolate for a 12L batch size (can you have too much chocolate malt?)? Too much crystal? I don't have any roasted...

Getting a sneaky fractured brew day in whilst my daughter is at a birthday party and son has a friend round to play. Was thinking of a stout, but it's getting a bit too warm to brew; however, it's ideal for a wheat beer. Dunkel is going on, grains steeping at the moment. I had no plans for this...

30 years since the first Smiths single, so a Willamette-based brew... Title: Memories of Fremont 1994 Brew Method: Extract Style Name: Extra Special/Strong Bitter (ESB) Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 10 liters (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 11 liters STATS: Original Gravity: 1.057 Final Gravity...

With a Bank Holiday looming, I'm looking to get a couple of small-scale brews on. Despite having only one brew under my belt after a 13 year hiatus (the all Citra brew I asked for advice on a few weeks ago), SWMBO is already pissing and moaning about the smell, the clutter, time spent etc. In...

After recently starting extract brewing again I placed an order to see me through my next few brews (IPAs, stout/porter, ESB). It never occurred to me when I placed the order that it's essentially just as easy to make extract-based wheat beers. Having enjoyed a couple of weissbiers yesterday...

Ey up and all that. Forgive me for my sins, it has been 13 years 3 months since my last brew (relocation, buying house, doing up house, children...). After sampling a mixed case from Buxton Brewery I was reminded just how good home brewed beer used to taste and, as I'm particularly partial to...