Recent content by Billy No Mates

That's fine.

Just do as you're told.

Assuming offence on someone else's behalf must be the ultimate in patronisation. Shame on CAMRA. And I remember booze cruises to Calais where we bought cheap plonk in an outlet called Eastenders and their own brand was called Dogs Boll**ks. The RSPCA didn't try to patronise the pooches and...

I'm at the GBBF now and I've just bought a half of Big **** IPA.

Half a teaspoon is one full eggspoon. Much easier to judge.

I've bottled the concentrate turbo this afternoon using a bottling wand but left the vent hose from the barrel dangling in the jar of water/steriliser mix, and it sucked it all up. As soon as I noticed I had a swig from a filled bottle but it tasted alright. Bloody good as it happens. It...

The lady in the homebrew shop recommended 500g cane sugar and 500g spraymalt. She was right. My best ever kit beer. I'll be checking out more of those Mangrove Jack's pouches if this is anything to go by.

If that's what you enjoy and want to do then by all means do it. But if your recipe does not suit your water it makes more sense to me to modify your ingredients rather than to modify the water. Maybe it shows that I gave up on clones a while ago. I can't imagine that there is anywhere in the UK...

I don't think you have missed the point. Thames Water filter drinking water through Granulated Active Carbon vessels, which removes the organic matter from the water. This is a major operation using the best water treatment plant in the world. Why would anyone think that they need to replicate...

There's no point, because Thames Water have already carbon filtered the water as part of their treatment process.

I went on a Fuller's brewery tour a couple of years ago and asked where sourced their water. I assumed that they had a well and in the past they did, but now they just take it straight off the Thames Water main. Doesn't go through a water treatment plant or anything. My kitchen tap is on the...

Homebrew is less gassy than keg or commercial bottled beers (well, mine is anyway), which means that drinkers of it are less flatulent, resulting in less harmful methane being released into the atmosphere. All homebrewers are therefore effective climate change activists, and I can't imagine why...

Back in the old days Whitbread at Portsmouth used to brew a strong ale called Pompey Royal. The reason we used to love it was because it tasted like my dad's homebrew, complete with twang.

Done that, several times. It makes a big difference. And then with open eyes there's a distinct visual difference as well. But I'll be doing a lot more research later of course.

I mainly brew a partial mash or sometimes modify a kit, and have unsuccessfully been trying to avoid the homebrew twang. Now after many years I have found that the homebrew twang comes from the bottom of the bottle. I expect like most people I left just enough in the bottom of the bottle to...