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Hotdog IPA! Now that could be interesting. A little briney like a Gose but with a fuller body.....

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I still dont' see how the price can increase 5 times in 2 years and £500 for a bottle?

One advantage of having Tesco sell Chimay blue at £2.50 a bottle. Affordable enough to lay down.

I guess the ones shown in the chiller above are ok because they are in vacuum sealed bags. One of the ways hops degrade is through oxidization so unopened they will be exposed to air so degrade. Guess it is also like food, the colder they are or frozen the less likely they are to give up their...

Hmm, should have researched it before I did it. Can dry hopping give me something back? Is it worth throwing something into the secondary?

So after 9 days in the fermentor at 18°C, the Nottingham yeast got the FG to 1.008. Racked into the secondary and now in the beer fridge to condition at 12°C as per the recipe. Disappointingly the hops have really died off and I hoped they would have more punch but will see how if turns out.

A lot of beers do really well after aging. There is a book called Vintage beer by Patrick Dawson which gives you the flavour profiles over time. I like aged Rochefort 10 and we had some 5 year old at the beerfest lunchtime beers. As well as a 20 year old Gales Prize Old Ale, not so great and a...

That vintage is selling for £60 in the Parcel yard pub in London. I had the 1999 a few years ago before they went mad with the prices (now £230 a bottle, then £12). Waitrose sold 2017 last year at £6.50 a bottle so I got 7, one to try fresh and the others to lay down. The 2008 I had at the...

Cancelling the war games was one of the most sensible things to do. How can Un tell his people that they are about to be invaded by the Americans when the war games are happening if they don't happen? There always has to be an element of fear and if that fear is removed then that little bit of...

My local B&M had these kits yesterday. I was wondering if they were useful as a quick brew doubling up as they seem cheaper than kits. I thought the 12 swing tops for £9.99 seemed pretty reasonable. They were in the beer aisle, kits on the shelf, bottles and buckets on the top shelf and also on...

Thanks for the feedback. Seems I am on the right page. Every day is a school day and I am pleased I am thinking what everyone else is doing. I have not been stirring the mash which is another thing to try. I also had on my first 2 brews the experience of the recirculation settling down and it...

So an update on brew one and two and batch number 3. Brew one is now mellowed out and apart from a haze, is drinkable. I prefer the second batch which is lower alcohol as I had a longer length at the end than batch one, but there is not much between them in flavour. I think I over primed...

What we produce wastewise that doesn't get recycled is a drop in the ocean (pun intended) when you consider Mumbai in India produces 1200 tonnes of plastic waste per day. Now in India the plastics factories are complaining there will be a loss of around 500,000 jobs due to a ban on its use...

I find the German beer bottles from my local pub are really good as the Germans love to reuse the bottles so make the labels so they come of easily. The worse are the plastic labels and I have asked the pub not to save those for me although they have trialed soaking in vinegar which seems smelly...