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Where is a good place to buy the ingredients to brew a A G beer. What is a simple recipe to start brewing a A G Beer?

A recipe to brew Barley wine from a kit is as follows. A 40 pint Geordie Bitter kit made to 12 pints without the addition of any added sugar. When the initial fermentation has finished in the fermentation bin syphon into a couple of demijohns under airlocks. When fermentation has stopped...

I’ll troll through the books I have and take a look.

I brewed my first beer in about 1961. Things have certainly improved on the brewing front since then.

I also looking through my books have one by David Lines called ‘Brewing Beer Like You Buy’.

I think I will take a look at his books and brew one of the recipes to see how it compares with the beers I now brew.

I made my own version if the bottle washer using small bore copper pipes as the up jets rather like Ken’s. I’m not sure what happened to it as now I cask up my brews.

Ken Shales wrote two books on beer brewing. I have both in paperback editions.

I have quite a number of these books. Let me know what type of beer you are interested in and I’ll sort out a recipe from one of them.

I may give his ‘Yuletide Ale’ another go next Christmas and see if it’s as good as my memory tells me it was.

I still have the Ken Shales book plus a number of other recipe books from around this time.

I started brewing in the days before it was legal to brew at home. My first beer was a recipe from a homemade wine book. The ingredients bought from Boots were sold as health products. I still have a pile of books from the early days of legal brewing. Anyone remember, Ken Shales?

I know German beers are brewed to a strict rules. I wonder if they are also processed to enable them to be served chilled?

Thank you for your explanation. Gosh I’m glad my beers are at least alive!