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I used some brown malt for the first time in a brew last night. It smelt fantastic in the mash. The kitchen smelt more like a bakery than a brewery. I guess the beer I brewed is a type of brown ale, it should turn out sweet and malty with low bitterness and hoppyness. Looking forward to tasting...

I've been trying to figure out a way to do two brews at the same time to maximise my precious brew days. So whilst I had a 60min mash on the go I thought I'd try and brew another beer within the 60mins. I only need a weak but tasty quaffing beer for a 2 gallon pressure barrel. So this is what I...

Just tasted my first attempt at an Amber ale. It turned out clear and with a good head, tasty and slightly sweet, reminiscent of Doom Bar (not a bad yardstick). Marris Otter 950g & Crystal malt 50g Golding 5g and Fuggles 5g - 60mins Golding 5g and Fuggles 5g - 10mins I’ll be making more of...

I've made a number of 1 gl AG brews recently which have worked out well. I'm now considering scaling up my equipment to 3 gallons. I don't have a lot of room and don't want to be moving 5 gl or more of hot sticky liquid around (small kids about). Would an electric boiler such as a Brupaks...

My OH bough a nested set of three insulated drink coolers (says drink barrel on the label and about

I was recently at the Burton-upon-Trent beer festival where the stand out beer for me was 'Marston's New World Pale Ale', a search on the internet suggests they use Australian hops (Galaxy & Topaz). So I now have a 100g of Galaxy leafs. I also have a new mash tun which is a 7.5L drink...

After my first go at all grain last weekend I tried another today. I bought a mashing bag during the week, so was itching to give it a go. I was enjoying a Shepard Neame IPA (6.1%) the other night, the bottle said it had plenty of Fuggles. I have some Fuggles and some pale malt, so I thought...

I found an out-of-date kit/can of Geordie Scottish Export whilst looking for old equipment to do an all grain, only 5 months out-of-date, seemed a shame to throw it away and there was a bag of caster sugar with my wife's baking stuff, so it is now in the fermenting bin, should be alright I...

I ran out of the usual Young's homebrew sterilising powder but found some Milton tablets left over from baby bottles, do you think it will be good enough? Surely if it is good enough to sterilising baby bottles it's good enough for my home brew?

I thought I'd post this to encourage anyone else with little brewing experience to give all grain a go. Ability to brew beer is an essential life-skill, or so I tell my wife. I was inspired to try this after spending a day at Derventio brewery (Derbyshire) making some pale ale, try their beers...