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Ah ... you are on the wrong forum! Repeat that question elsewhere and it might be met with a close to apoplectic inducing outburst (from...

Honestly ... ! But it is one up for the Pegas tap - a few pence and two minutes with a hacksaw against £25 for the special clamp-lock...

They look very much like rip-offs of the "Pegus" taps. But you do have to modify a washer as a packer to make that tap work with glass...

Err, "non-epiheterodendrin (EPH) producing". That was a bit of a ride! Something about Hydrogen Cyanide along the way. Okay, no Maris...

Something many people do with Chevallier barley malt is mash at a low temperature (62-63C) to get a more fermentable wort. It's what I...

ERRATUM! "Gently but quickly encourage whey together" in the above instructions should have been "curds" not "whey". And no spiders (or...

I too wondered. In fact Edd added a bit to this thread on the subject. After grubbing through his recipes for excessively long periods...

I like to think you read my posts? Too much time lolling about in all that French sun no doubt. Joshua Tetley XK Bitter Beer (1868)...

Oops, I was spouting on a different forum! But I was moaning how all this hybridisation led to the position we have now: Lots of...

Don't get distracted! You might hear mixed gas "for stout" but that doesn't mean stout needs mixed gas because it most certainly does...

Aye I knew shortly after posting it I'd committed a "chronological error". But, I thought no-one would notice and tell on me. 😖 I do...

Much earlier! The date I've got is 1906, so very nearly Victorian! The other biggy from back then was Spratt Archer. Spratt was an Irish...

Plumage was a Swedish landrace variety, Archer an English landrace. Plumage Archer (grand-daddy of Maris Otter) is a new-fangled hybrid...

Have you noticed that Geterbrewed have Plumage Archer in stock now? Itching to give that a go as well as the heritage 6-row that Crafty...

Why is Chevallier barley so different? Chevallier barley developed as a "landrace" (a spontaneous emergence, and selection, of a useful...