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It's an ice beer. They took a 10% RIS and then kept freezing it until enough water was removed as ice to boost the ABV to 32% (the water freezes leaving the alcohol behind). My understanding is that this is legally viewed as similar to distillation so illegal at home.

No, they're the only UK stockists. Also, IIRC Brewlabs do a couple of 'Yorkshire' strains on slants/slopes. Maybe drop them an email and ask them what they'd recommend for a Timothy Taylor's Landlord style beer.

There's always a lot of their beer in my Tesco's....always on offer which says something.

Strictly speaking it never was a permanent part of the range. It's been out as a special release twice and was only available at that time. I don't know if it's the same but at the moment (sep-oct) Whitelabs are doing this yeast WLP037 Yorkshire Square Ale Yeast This yeast produces a beer that...

I wouldn't use them. We've had them explode when they've been sealed up with waste solvents in them.

In Hoegaarden I believe you're right - pils and wheat. I don't see oats as being 'out of style' though and Belgian brewers are fairly keen on chucking different cereals into their beers. Oats will make it smoother/creamier I guess. BTW, they don't use wheat malt - it's unmalted. You can try...

Jamil's recipe is OG 1.050, FG 1.011, IBU 20, 5 US gallons finished beer. 2.49kg pils 2.26kg flaked wheat 113g munich 510g flaked oats +227g rice hulls as a lautering aid mash at 50C/15minutes then 68C until converted. one addition hallertau (4%, 90mins) 34g for 19.7 ibu spices: fresh...

Did you have to sign up to the other ebay stores or can you do it through your UK account?

I notice that Nordic Optical seem to have vanished again. Have they changed their name? Does anyone know of any other cheap sources of stock pots?

The Woodfordes and other more expensive kits include more malt extract and generally don't require you to chuck in a ton of sugar as well. Sugar has no flavour and only adds alcohol so kits that use it tend to taste a bit thin. It depends on whether you think it's worth spending the extra on a...

Slants yes, frozen no. I wouldn't have thought they'd work.

Beards are thin on the ground at Cambridge meetings...

I seem to recall that the Morrisons own brand bottled water has quite high sodium as well as bicarbonate (which is odd as the chloride was fairly low). Maybe I'm getting my waters mixed up. I just get Tesco's Ashbeck (very soft) anyway as I can get well 'ard water from just turning on a tap!

I use both liquid and dried. If you can get the flavour and characteristics you want in a dried yeast then use it - it's a lot less faff and much easier to get the amount of yeast you need. I'd use Safale US-05 over the wyeast or whitelabs product because it's so close it's not worth the faff of...

No, I don't actually.... :wha: