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  1. BillyD

    Pizza

    Brother had one of the original Ooni and now has a Koda, I make do with some unglazed tiles in the oven on it's highest settings. There's an active FB group for Ooni users sharing tips, recipes and the like.
  2. BillyD

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    My first time having a go at this and have done 2 plants in pots with no trimming and just letting everything grow that I harvested this morning. Got 75g off them, very weed like smell from one plant - I've got 2 different varieties that I moved and can't remember which is which! What do you do...
  3. BillyD

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    I was down in Wales last week and went to the National Gardens, they had about 5 varieties planted and all were in different stages, think it was the Phoenix that already had decent sized cones on. Mine at home (first year) are only now just starting to show flowers.
  4. BillyD

    One for Slid re Winter Hill

    As the google map shows there is a path that takes you from Coal Pit all the way up to the mast, the very bottom bit is quite a decent surface but further up it is a bit "off road". The odd car does park near where the path splits off from Coalpit so you might be lucky there. Otherwise if you...
  5. BillyD

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    It's on the net somewhere but from memory I think crushed about 4 cloves up and put them in some boiling water over night and then just filled a spray bottle with it, no idea whether it's actually doing anything though.
  6. BillyD

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    I've been having a few problems with caterpillars and then this week one of the plants (I can't remember which variety it is) is covered with summat. I've just doused it with garlic spray and will keep an eye on it, these are first year plants and I'm just letting them do their own thing by and...
  7. BillyD

    Possible infection ?

    Smells ok, tastes good, I'll go for it I think.
  8. BillyD

    Possible infection ?

    One of the brews I was going to bottle this morning looks like it might have an infection but having never seen it before I thought I'd post up some pics and ask, it's like a powdery residue floating on the top. It's a 1 gallon batch and I suppose the question is would you still bottle it ?
  9. BillyD

    Mango IPA & a Chocolate IPA Tips Please

    I've got 500g of fresh mango sitting in a 4 litre brew which I'll probably rack into a secondary tomorrow night, be interesting to see if the flavour does come through.
  10. BillyD

    BillyD's Brewdays

    I read Radical Brewing a while back and for some reason the idea of doing a brew using jaggery got stuck in my head. The jaggery on it's own has a creamy thing going and I'd seen it in the Asda near work for £1 for a block so I had bought it anyway "just in case". There are two recipes in the...
  11. BillyD

    Hop plants/rhizomes - growing report

    I saw a post on here where someone was selling some rhizomes so thought I'd have a go growing in pots. Initially made some Heath Robinson bamboo cane structures but the winds in April put paid to them so when 'er indoors said the kid's swing needed to go I hatched a cunning plan. Had a bit of...
  12. BillyD

    BillyD's Brewdays

    Thought I'd do one of these placeholder type threads in case I ever need to look back on something, on Saturday I brewed what will hopefully be a Mango Pale Ale. Plan was: 1.18kg MO 0.2kg Lager malt 0.12kg Carapils Full volume mash for 90 minutes @ about 148F with 9.2 litres of water. 8g...
  13. BillyD

    5x 100g 2015-16 hops lucky dip for £7.50

    Seemed too good to miss this so ordered a pack and got: Flyer, Phoenix, Brewers Gold, Marynka, Premiant
  14. BillyD

    What did you brew today?

    Did an ish version of GH Weissbier last night : Wheat 0.65kg Lager 0.55kg 70 min mash, 70 min boil, full volume BIAB 3g Hersbrucker @ 70 2g Saaz @ 70 CML Kristallweizen in fridge @ 20C so not expecting the bubblegum etc Came out at 1040 instead of 1050 which is typical of late Tonight I'm...
  15. BillyD

    What did you brew today?

    Did the GH raspberry wheat on Saturday and GH American wheat on Sunday, efficiency still all to cock and I think the brew fridge is on it's last legs as well.
  16. BillyD

    Show us your beer.

    Herzbrucker Kolsch I was having on Friday night.
  17. BillyD

    Efficiency/Numbers etc

    Very small grain bills, 1.26kg for the last two brews. I'll do another brew using the exact same grain bill but give the MO a couple of whacks with a brick and see if it helps.
  18. BillyD

    Efficiency/Numbers etc

    Christ on a bike, just dawned on me that I bet I've been using uncrushed for the last 3 brews. :oops:
  19. BillyD

    Efficiency/Numbers etc

    I've moved to doing full volume BIAB recently and have done about 9 brews using the same method. Plugged the details into Brewer's Friend with a 70% efficiency and for the first 6 everything tallied, the last 3 brews though have been way off - one was 8 points off the OG and the last two (using...
  20. BillyD

    What did you brew today?

    Brakspear Bitter from Wheeler today: MO 0.89kg Black 0.01kg Crystal 0.08kg Golden Syrup 0.06kg Fuggles 9g @ 60 Goldings 5g @ 60 Goldings 2g @ 15 CML Real Ale yeast Full volume BIAB, 60 min mash with bag squeeze, 60 min boil. Missed the OG by a country mile, numbers suggested an efficiency of...
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