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Please read post #14 after you read this they may be still open - Admin. My local home-brew shop. I've been a customer ever since I started brewing again seriously. After all, I figure, if you don't support your local shop... Drove over there on Tuesday, and all shut up. Oh well, that's...

When I've bought torrified wheat in the past, it's looked very much like ordinary wheat malt. But in my local HB shop today, there were bags labelled torrified wheat that resembled flaked barley. Are there two types? Or wrongly labelled? I should have queried it with the woman in the shop. Any...

Any league fans here?

Despite reading umpteen threads on the topic, this is something I've never done (and I suspect there are many posters here just like me in that regard). However, I bottled my American Amber yesterday, and one of the demi-johns had a large amount of sediment in the bottom, about an inch of it...

Aren't clear bottles just better? More aesthetically pleasing, you can see exactly what's going on, etc. I have a 'sufficient' stock of empty bottles, but am gradually increasing the proportion of clear ones. In fact, the main obstacle is the relative rarity of 'deep collar' clear bottles, as...

A while back I made a batch of my Flakey bitter, and dry-hopped half of it. The un-dry-hopped bottles were great, nice and clear, clean fresh taste. The dry-hopped ones were, well, cloudy. So I left them. Since then, I've drunk all the good ones. So tonight I thought I'd try one. It maybe...

I had a bit of a 'duh' moment a while back. I guess this is something I simply hadn't considered. I have often mentioned here that I always pour from bottles into a jug, rather than into a glass. I fact, when I've sent posters here beers, either in swaps or in comps or in the Secret Santa, I may...

Oatmeal stouts always seem to be brewed with ordinary flaked oats, or sometimes 'naked' oats. What about actual oatmeal? I've never seen a recipe calling for it, but the name suggests that at least at one time, oatmeal would have been used. Anyone done so?

I am drinking one of my oatmeal stouts. It is OK, but frankly I feel it is a bit too pale, it's more a brown colour really. For reference, this the grain bill: 3817 Pale Malt 227 Rolled Oats 182 Crystal Medium 146 Chocolate malt 64 Roasted Barley I'd like to make it a bit blacker...

In bottled beers, at least. I present as evidence the following: a) On the very rare occasions where I've ever opened a bottle more than six months old, say, it has inevitably been a bottle-bomb. And, more importantly, b) I just cracked an odd bottle I had left of oatmeal stout. I swapped one...

I keep reading about using Pringles tubes for posting beer, so I went into Lidl today intending to buy some. I hoped the cheap knock-off versions would be OK, but I went round to the beer aisle, fetched a bottle, and took it over to the biscuit section. Standing them side-by-side, the knock-off...

Been down to London to see my son. I took him a few beers. Reporting back, he tells me, the bitter was fine, but the hazy Citra IPA was undrinkable and contaminated. Of course, I pressed him further, and he said it was "metallic, and a weird sour taste". I have drunk plenty of this batch, and...

What's it like?

While back I was thinking, if someone said to you, there's a jug of beer and a bottle, pour yourself one, I'd hold the glass in my dominant hand (I'm left-handed), and the jug in right hand. Of course, I could do it either way, I tried. But one way certainly felt slightly more natural, and that...

I've got a batch of Irish stout bottled, but have held off trying it yet (with great willpower!). All red crown tops, so I pulled a bottle out today to have a look, and... ...that clearly isn't stout! It doesn't show up well in my rather poor photo, but it is absolutely crystal clear and...

Bargain! 😃

Never had that before. Got bottles in the corner of the kitchen on the floor, covering an area of what, about 2 square metres. There's probably around 120 bottles. Big brown stain on the floor spreading across the kitchen. Right in the middle of the bottles, there's the broken one. It's not the...

Reading several threads lately about attempts to install a whirlpool system of some sort, along with the envy I always feel when I see these pix of posters' beautifully clear wort sitting a hydrometer jar 😃 got me thinking. I have no whirlpool, and my wort is generally pretty cloudy, although...

And first up: full disclaimer; I haven't read it yet. it only arrived in the post today and I've just skimmed through it. But I see it has a great selection of recipes, which should keep me busy for years to come. But I noticed that the recipes do not suggest a yeast. So looking back to the...

This is my attempt at a kolsch. I have three demi-johns like this. The yeast was pitched on the 28th, so that's a fortnight tomorrow. Most brews I would have bottled long since, but thus far I've thought it better to leave this one. The appearance is a little misleading, although there are some...