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I brewed this on Saturday and it looks pretty good so far. On the advice of a couple of pages I washed the blackberries and boiled them for a short tome to try and counteract anything that might have been brought in from outside and it's bubbling away nicely in my fridge...and from this pic it...

Yes, I guess most fruit beers are pretty low in hops but I think the combination could work...and I have brought some Bramling Cross to add to the aromas. I've get a Cherry Porter on the go atm so it'll be a few weeks before I can start this one but I'll let you know how it goes :-)

I think I'll get some Bramling Cross and add it to the recipe...would be nice to have the additional aroma in the beer

Ingesting info...clearly meant interesting but it's a nice Freudian slip :-)

Some ingesting info here, http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Blackberry-Beer . . . Will be interesting to see if I can get it to clear too. time will tell :-)

In secondary, interesting. I've done a Black Cherry Porter a couple of times and always put a few into the boil, primarily for colour and the rest into the primary fermentation. Ways the benefit of adding them into the secondary fermentation instead?

I've previously brewed a very light and hoppy beer, something like Oakham's Citra or Green Devil (OK, it was a total disaster due to my mash temperature being way out of whack but in principal it worked), and am thinking of doing another one but this time with the addition of a whole load of...

I didn't manage to get anywhere myself but I found and invested in a Kickstarter project called BeerBug that achieves the same thing. I'm due to receive mine in April I think...I'll let you know how it works out.

Yah, it's not like I'm chucking away hundreds of pounds worth of stock...and if I happen upon a brilliant brew I'm not sure I could replicate the state of the hops to recreate it :-) Thanks for the info

Not at their best...does that mean I'd need to use more to achieve the same effect or just that the taste will be 'wrong' and I'd be better off chucking the lot, learning form the mistake and storing the next lot in the freezer??

I've not brewed for around 6 months due to time constraints but I'm not worried because all my ingredients are well stored, or so I thought. I've got 5 different types of Hops that I'd brought dried for different brews I did last year and they're all nicely stored in airtight Kilner jars...

sounds workable, and the demi-johns I've got are 5L so should work... We're getting really small now, does that make this Nano Brewing ;-)

cooking Beer in the oven...sounds like a winner to me :cheers:

well one of the ideas behind getting the demi-johns was to be able to make beer in very small amounts to test on different recipes so I'm think this process is going to be repeated many times ;-) (just need to figure out making a mini mash-tun now!)

It's too late now and I forgot to ask this question in my Yeasty Experimentation thread (http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=15046) but is it a problem if you put too much yeast in during primary fermentation? Each FV has around 4.5L of wort in it but I've used full yeast...

I did 5 with about 4.5L in each in the end so I skipped the bread yeast I'm afraid...still, looking good so far (after 5 minutes at this point ;-)

I've got some software I throw the Brix reading into during Fermentation to convert it to SG. I read the first few and did a traditional reading with my hydrometer and it seemed pretty close I've got the temperature under control using a heated thermostatically controlled Fridge but interesting...

yep, I know it's a bit overkill but it'd be nice to get something working. BTW I only need a couple of drops of liquid for the refractometer...that's hardly a refreshing pint ;-)

yeah, those two were my other ideas. The float idea was where I started from but I just have the feeling that it'll turn into a bit of a mess and be a bit tricky to clean and steralise. The optical method means either removing a sample from the wort each time you want to take a reading (and...

I knew someone would ask that...I just brought a 'random' selection tbh... I brought the following 4 recently, Young's Ale Yeast Sachet 5grm Muntons Premium Gold Yeast 6 grm Danstar Windsor Beer Yeast Danstar Munich Beer Yeast and already have at home some Youngs Dried Active Yeast. I also...