Spent the day moving my ugly DIY kegerator build into a different room and building in a second fridge, shelves etc to make a bar. 75% complete so celebrated with a few pints of Peroniclone (perfect for a sunny afternoon) and amazingly I cracked a bottle of the blackberry and elderberry wine we...
Bit of a cheaty day yesterday. Bro in Law fancied getting into brewing so leant him some kit and walked him through a Coopers Cerveza tweaked a little with some good old Tate&Lyle.
Realized whilst I was dusting the old extract equip down that I had a Woodfordes Wherry kit nestling, forgotten in...
Oh man! Restoring old cars and bikes, playing in a band, all grain brewing, artisan bread making are taking up enough of my gad damn life... where do I sign up? :groupdancing:
Last Friday I had a CBA (cant be Ar$ed) with all grain day and fancied a Christmas ale so checked out the extract kits on offer. Didn't want overly ginger flavour as I prefer that in Summer and was aiming for more of a Hoegaarden/mulled wine affair.
Wilkos had one of their payday sales on so...
They know when they are on to a good thing! Good grief Gerry. The ultimate Catch 22. Enough kids to drive you to drink but too busy with them to ever get drunk!
Love your 'thingy' style experimentation. I have played the brew all the bits left from other recipe game and got some great results. I made a Hefferweisen/Hoegaarten thingy that was flippin awesome. Problem is I can never replicate it as I just bunged a load of various malts left over, some...
Having brewed a few half decent (but not good enough) wine and Coopers kits around 10 years ago.
I dug out my buckets from storage late last year as Mrs C had collected lots of hedgerow fruit to make wine and pies. Whilst visiting the LHBS I thought it would be rude not to check that the...