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Belgium golden strong update 16/1 brew day. Pitched yeast into wort 1060 20/1 gravity had dropped to 1020, so I added 1kg of table sugar in solution bumping the gravity up to 1040 22/1 gravity dropped to 1020 already. Interestingly, the yeast-on-sugar has produced a much more pronounced belgium...

Thanks - bottles are a complete pain. This brew will be going into the Norwich Brewers 2021 Beer Advent Calendar, it will be quite pokey at c9%, and it needs a good bit of age on it. I've never aged a beer in a corney - maybe that's something to try. Cheers Martin

OK, in 60 hours the wort has gone from 1060 to 1038. I will leave it another day before adding the sugar solution.

Well, after 2 weeks the Belgium wit dropped well and promises to be a lovely beer. 19L kegged + 4 litres in coopers pet. The trial jar was lovely. So, on to a Christmas beer! A belgium strong golden ale. Recipe here: Belgium Strong Golden Ale | No Profile Selected All Grain Beer Recipe at...

The LME that I have used with hops, has only every contained isomerized hop oil - that is the bitter bit of hops that is usually obtained by boiling hops for an extended period. In this useage, there is not that much difference between ibus from one hop and another. I have not come across any...

I recently did a kit - the first one in 5 years. I was fortunate enough to be given one of the new 2 can kits Muntons are launching this spring. The cans were a mix of LME, Liquid malted rye extract and isomerised hop oils. There were 2 packs of hops for dry hopping, and a full pack of US05...

Thanks Dutto, I agree with you! What I am trying to do (and should have said) is manage the yeast effectively. A number of club members have had stalled fermentations with M21. I suspect that this may be linked to not managing the free rise effectively - that is to say that the wort may...

Thanks, but after consulting, it's a no thank you. I'll stick to crown caps for now. Thanks again, and hope we can catch up at some point

Hi Pennine, I could do with some of these. I'm trying to get a few Norwich lads together to cover all of the bottles..

Result!

Hi Pennine, Ha! Just had a look at your lovely kegerator! I'd never get away with something that big! We'd have to lose a sofa. Anyway, just had a lad ring me up saying he really wants the AG kit. He's a good 'un and a straight edge. I'll message you his name and number - He's just...

Meant to add, in normal times the ACB do a lovely homebrew festival in Colchester. lots of lovely homebrew, all for charity. We always go over for it, and end up getting very tired. Quite an active club.

Cheers Pennine, I'm sure some of the lads will be up for some more cornies. We've picked up quite a few new members in lockdown who are just gearing up. My wife will kill me....but what are you looking for forthe kegerator! THanks Martin

And there's another thing! I'd assumed with a name like yours, you would be up north! Are you one of the Anglian Craft Brewers?

Hi Penine, I've linked to this thread on Norwich Amateur Brewers, so you may get some local interest.