Recent content by paulgumby

I'm making the same today for the 2nd time. First time I converted it into a coffee stout last summer and it was lovely.

I'll second the cheese and crackers

It used to be bottling but 90% gets kegged now. So I would have to say finding enough uninterrupted time to brew. Family seem to put pay to more and more brew days of late.

Hello Hobgoblin. Welcome to the forum. I also have connections to Wales all be it mid Wales however am not Welsh nor do I live there. Yet. My wife is from Powys and wants us to move back at some point. The guys on here are great. Any help you need just ask. Out of interest who do you follow on...

This is me with my boy Iwan (Darth Vader) over Crimbo

Got the last half dozen bottles of my HBC Apollo. Not a bad drop. Just got to keep the SWMBO away from it!

Thanks all. I haven't bottled yet but I have cold crashed so this gives me peace of mind.

Hi guys. I normally keg all my beer but I have a 5 gallon batch to bottle for Crimbo presents. Unwittingly I cold crashed the beer as I often do and then began to wonder whether the bottles will carb having done this. What are your thoughts?

Stainless steel growler from the states.

Retrospectively I was drinking a coffee molé stout. Warms the cockles

Excellent thank you Yeastface you have saved me chucking perfectly good beer.

So a few weeks ago I embarked on my first sour. After fermentation I didn't have a keg free and I can't stand bottling if I can help it. I did however have three demijohns available so I racked what I could into these and left the remainder in the FV in the fermentation fridge. 4 weeks on I...

So I don't have much time to do an AG batch this month and instead I have procured a Brewferm wheat beer kit. The reviews look good but I can't resist trying to pimp it. I'm thinking I will switch the packet yeast for Safbrew WB-06 and I'd like to add dried elderflower to the secondary. Does...

All now appears to have resolved itself. I'll change the valve when the new one arrives, but touch wood I have a seal and my Pliny the Elder clone has been saved!

That's interesting and gives me confidence. However I'm no chemist, but without a seal isn't it possible that O2 could displace the CO2?