chillipickle
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Hahaha, pm me your address, I can do social distancing with a pint glass pretty good these days 
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Hahaha, pm me your address, I can do social distancing with a pint glass pretty good these days
Maidstone in Kent. You’d be welcome any time!
chillipickle
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Fair play HB I admire you passion, I slacked for 2 weeks and ended up buying from my local brewery.Not good when there are 2 empty kegs 
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I’m only over the bridge. When things get back to normal I think a face to face catch up is in order. Homebrew, RAF dits, it’ll be a laugh. Plus I’ll be driving back with some summer breeze
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On the plus side, 1 will be ready to keg weekend, and the other one is bubbling away nicely.
I’m only over the bridge. When things get back to normal I think a face to face catch up is in order. Homebrew, RAF dits, it’ll be a laugh. Plus I’ll be driving back with some summer breeze
That’s a definite date!
Fair play HB I admire you passion, I slacked for 2 weeks and ended up buying from my local brewery.Not good when there are 2 empty kegs
Unfortunately (
) I buy too!
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Really need summer to arrive, and get friends and family in our lives again.
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Double the fire power now in the clapped out brew fridge!
Just in time for the end of the cold snap
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Just in time for the end of the cold snap
Roll on next year! Mind you that will probably be the mildest winter on record now!
Maybe not tomorrow or the next day, and possibly not next year or even the year after, but one day, that will be a worthwhile investment.
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So gently crashed the NEIPA down to 15 degrees ready for the dry hop...
Connected my gas tank up to the ball valve of my Brew Bucket and forced CO2 gently up through the beer for a good 30 seconds. Then opened the lid and very gently added the dry hops before closing the lid and repeating the purging process.
I decided to up the dry hop addition slightly as I ended up with more beer than planned in the FV. Plus I love Mosaic so I didn't need much of an excuse!
The dry hop addition was 200g Mosaic, 100g Cascade and 100g Citra (about 16g/L) which was pretty much two 500ml cans of hops
Connected my gas tank up to the ball valve of my Brew Bucket and forced CO2 gently up through the beer for a good 30 seconds. Then opened the lid and very gently added the dry hops before closing the lid and repeating the purging process.
I decided to up the dry hop addition slightly as I ended up with more beer than planned in the FV. Plus I love Mosaic so I didn't need much of an excuse!
The dry hop addition was 200g Mosaic, 100g Cascade and 100g Citra (about 16g/L) which was pretty much two 500ml cans of hops
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Well... home brew conundrum... not sure what I’d like to brew next! The hop freezer is pretty full, I have speciality grains, lager and MO malt and a fridge full of different yeast strains.
I’ve decided to revive my St Austell strain that I propagated back in July from Proper Job bottles. It’s been sat in the fridge and was a proportion of the first starter that I made with the PJ bottles.
I didn’t look but I think if I used a yeast viability calculator it would be rather dead but knowing how well it’s been stored I thought I’d give it a go on the stir plate!
12 hours in and it’s off like a rocket! I ran out of spray malt so used the emergency pop bottle of wort that was buried in the freezer I think this was the left over wort from the Irish stout that I made ages ago
I’ve decided to revive my St Austell strain that I propagated back in July from Proper Job bottles. It’s been sat in the fridge and was a proportion of the first starter that I made with the PJ bottles.
I didn’t look but I think if I used a yeast viability calculator it would be rather dead but knowing how well it’s been stored I thought I’d give it a go on the stir plate!
12 hours in and it’s off like a rocket! I ran out of spray malt so used the emergency pop bottle of wort that was buried in the freezer
I think this was the left over wort from the Irish stout that I made ages ago user 18729
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But what to brew? 
But what to brew?
I’ve just brewed a strong “Vintage Ale” that I hope will be a little like the Fullers Vintage Ale. How about something like that?
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Mmmm that sounds nice! Did you use the Fullers strain? I think something more sessionable might be in order though...
@Clint kindly sent me his clone recipe for St Austell’s Tribute and as I’ve got their yeast on the stir plate I think I might use that for inspiration
