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Whats the recmonded amount i should use percentage wise in an oatmeal stout? I heard somewhere about getting a stuck mash if you use too many. I've used them before in dark milds but only in small quanities.....

My delivery from home brew shop came yesterday so as i have this week off i thought let's get a brew on to day. :) Decided to do a dark mild .. I really enjoyed wychwood Arrowaine over Christmas but anyway I also wanted to experiment with reducing the mash time and boil time so I did a 45 min...

Yesterday i bottled up my 2 latest batches of beer. 16 pints of AG dark ale (bob's your goblin) and 40 pints of extract stout (scooby brews mystery stout)....that's it for me now for a bit although i have just placed an order with the malt miller, got some extract coming along with some hops...

If i use a lager yeast say over winter because the temps are lower, but i don't cold condition it (lager it) for a month or two, like you would with a proper lager..... is it still classed as a lager or is it an ale. Anyone tried doing this? and what's the resulting beer like. :hmm:

Anyone had any really successful lager brews from extract?? I want to have a go over winter and was going to go with my usual BIAB method , but i may go down the extract route to save a bit of time. :smile:

Anyone got any suggestions on what other hop i should use with Chinook? I'm going to do a 23lt extract batch of bitter, i wanted to use Chinook for bittering as i have plenty of it. I've also got galaxy, challanger, US cascade and EKG. Any suggestions most welcome :thumb:

my water PH is 6.5 is this ok for brewing lager?? I normally brew ale and don't have any issues... but i was wondering about lager as i hope to had a go over winter. i heard about using acid malt to increase the acidity, is it worth using.

Anyone got an AG or extract clone recipe for Tiger lager? I'm not normally a lager drinker but I've really enjoyed drinking this through the summer. Will have a go over winter. :thumb:

I'm thinking of adding some fresh elderflowers to my next brew, hopefully this fri. I'm going to make a golden ale, a 10 lts batch. How many heads do you reckon? Plus at what time of the boil do u add. I've got EKG and galexy lined up for the brew. Any ideas :)

Brewed up this one yesterday, a stout..:drink: will be the last dark beer for a while now as I'm hoping to get stuck into a golden ale next followed by an IPA or light bitter. for 10 lts (came out just short) marris otter 1540g flaked barley 440g black malt 100g...

I bottled up my blackberry wine (medium sweet) yesterday from last year and decided to turn some of it into a port by fortifing it. So i did 3 bottles with brandy and three bottles with dark rum both taste really nice. Any way i was wondering what the formula is for working out the alcohol...

When's the best time to add vanilla pods to an AG brew?? I'm assuming at the beginning of the boil....plus how many for a 10 liter brew??.....2? :-?

Ok so today was brewday, first one this year. I went for a robust porter similar to guinness single stout porter of 1883. Well along those lines anyway. Aimed for 10 lts but slighty over sparged, got 11.5 lts Marris otter 2380g (85%) Amber malt 280g (10%) Black malt 140g (5%) Mashed...

Placed an order yesrerday for grains, hops and yeast plus other bits so hopefully get my first brew of the year on this week. I'm hoping to go for a porter for my first brew, I've got a recipe for guinness single stout porter from 1883. Aming for an 1060 Og. Whats everyone brewing at the...

Anyone tried using the dark ale yeast? i'm hoping to get some of this soon to use in a porter with an OG of 1060. Any thoughts?

Last week or week before I got a wilko dark velvet stout kit on the go. I haven't brewed a kit for about two years as I've moved over to all grain but anyway I was told I'm not aloud to brew all grain in the winter because its makes too much steam on the windows, yeah right! (she doesn't mind...

I got home from work yesterday at about half 12 and garden's world was on the iplayer. Anyway they were talking about cider/wine making which quite inspired me to have a go at some cider (blush). We also had three bags of apples sitting on the window which were going spare (6.5kg of 4 different...

Does anyone grow their own hops? I'm quite interested in getting a couple of vines sometime. What varieties do you grow and where do you get them from? Cheers

I was wondering what I would need to add to my tap water to make it suitable for AG brewing? I've mostly used ashbeck (ph 6.2) mineral water in the past for AG. We live in a hard water area where the ph is 6.8 Do I need to use something to take out the chlorine to? I went on a brewery tour...

Hi, I went on a tour of the old dairy brewery last week which is in Tenterden.... Kent. Quite a nice brewery they've got there it's a 30 barrel brewery, tour lasted around an hour with a few samples afterwards. I particularly like there blue top (IPA) and gold top (golden ale) :-P However I...