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After 40 years of brewing I am calling it a day and selling up. I almost certainly have coeliac disease and when the final diagnosis comes I will have to give up beer. Aaaargh! I will be able enjoy farmhouse cider though. Anyways, here is what I have..... Electrim Boiler (plastic) Cool box...

For anyone who is within reach of NE Essex and may be interested the Harwich Beer Festival is on over the next three days from !!.00hrs each day. There seem to be some excellent ales on the beer list. http://www.tendringcamra.org.uk/harwichfest.html

For anyone living in or around N.E.Essex, the Harwich Town Brewery is running a beer festival at The Redoubt (less than 5 minutes walk from Harwich Town railway station). There are 30 or so real ales, 5 ciders, and both bottled and draught US beers. It is open from 11 to 11 today and tomorrow...

I nearly always have a 5 litre polypin of TC available for supping/cooking, it is very good, but can be a little on the dry side. The other day I bought a 3 ltr box of Westons Organic cider for just over six quid at Asda. It is a great cider but could do with being a bit drier. As an experiment...

Lidl will be selling cheap apple juice this weekend, reduced from 93p to 48p for a 1.5 ltr carton :cheers:

I decided that today I would brew a ruby ale with plenty of chocolate malt, flaked barley and porage oats. My own devising, I have done it three or four times before and it is a good pint, full bodied and very smooth. However, I recently changed my boiler, I have had a Ritchie Brewheat boiler...

My last two brews have been milds, and while they were very good I felt I wanted something completely different for today's brew. Maris Otter 9 lbs Wheat malt 1lb Amarillo (9.3) 1 oz Challenger (6.5) 1 oz (First wort hops) 1/2 oz Amarillo added at end of boil before 30 minute rest. Mashed...

Hello, I have just found this site and joined. I have been home brewing beer for about 35 years, first kits, then extract, progressing through partial mash to all grain. Most of my brewing is all grain, but this is confined to the cooler months, as I got fed up of brews being ruined by racing...