Recent content by rickthebrew

Yes all good - still brewing but not on the forum as much :D still check in and see what's happening though, hope your **** hasn't been to bad buddy :) Cheers :drink:

Yeah it turned out fine - not exceptional but a very drinkable beer that my dad enjoyed and on a taste comparison with abbot ale the only thing that showed which was the homebrew was the filtered shine of the shop bought - on taste the homebrew got the thumbs up ahead of the bought though so...

Hello tony, long time no see!! You still brewing? :drink:

10 gallons of Summer Daze !! In the boiler as I type , takes us to 3058 :P

Sounds good - will be interesting to hear how it turns out :thumb:

I have used as little as 500g of blackberries with 2kg rhubarb for a gallon - really up to personal taste, blackberry is quite a strong flavour though but goes really well with the rhubarb as does raspberry, I have also done rhubarb and orange which was lovely! :cheers:

Cool, thanks for the info - I normally have 6 to 8 dj's on the go, taking a couple of months to be ready for bottling - this just keeps up with the wife's demands !! A good BBQ session can put a serious dent in the wine and beer homebrew so good to stay ahead :lol:

Good to see the old rhubarb post still alive !! I have managed three gallons this year and I always do the freeze / thaw sugar extraction (2kg per dj) add to this one litre red grape juice and 600g sugar (lemon juice, pectalose, cup of tea and youngs wine yeast ) always a winner and goes down a...

I've never seen 1/2 size dj's before!! :shock: where did you pick them up from?

Cracking book and as others have said a great read around the history and beer styles - gives you the knowledge to brew the styles, just brewed a Duvel today based on the info from the book ( my third clone of this lovely golden ale) wish it was ready though !!!! :drink:

Brewed 10 gallons of summer ale a couple of months ago and today brewed 10 gallons of Duvel golden ale - been way to long without a brew and the cupboard is empty :cry: Good job the home made wine stocks are high :tongue: So that gives us 2904 gallons total 8-)

10 gallons of Summer Ale ( pale and wheat malt with lager hops and wlp007) so total 1570.5gallons :party:

The wife is in brighton on a hen do so i`m brewing 10gallons of Brighton Hoppy :D :cheers: :D :cheers: total = 1174 gallons :thumb:

Two weeks ago brewed 10 gallons of Friggin'Golden Oaty and just about to chill 10 gallons of Dark Knight ( batman stout :evil: ) So total up to 893 gallons

Not been on the forum much lately and just read your thread from start to end, great stuff and it really sums up home brewing for me, we all can do and brew as we please and much like yourself the ups and downs make the brewer :D I just got a brew on today after almost three months :shock...