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It's been a brewless few weeks. Remember a while ago my boiler decided to throw in the towel and I ended up salvaging 10 litres of rocket fuel? Well, the very nice people who manufacture the Electrim boiler replaced it completely free of charge. Huge thanks to them and equally huge thanks to Sam...

Just had my first unmitigated AG disaster. It should have been a Belgian Pale - I was looking to get around 20 litres @ 1052 or so... MO 1.5 kg Belgian Pils 1.5 kg Light Candi 1.0 kg Biscuit Malt 0.300 kg Cara Gold 0.200 Chocolate Malt 0.050 kg Fuggles 30g @ 60 mins EKG 20g @ 15 mins...

So-called because I took summer this, summer that, summer the other and summer telse. I wanted to take all the science out of beer-making and reduce it to nothing more than bucket-chemistry and a helping of witchcraft. Just for fun. My base malt was about 5 jugs of MO. To this I bunged in a...

I write match reports on Derby County's home matches under the pen-name 'Old One-Eye'. Some people think they're pretty good, so if you don't mind me being a little self-indulgent every now and again, I'll post links on here. So far this season, they're doing pretty well. Please don't be upset...

Well, it's a little over 4 months to the big day - no, not Christmas but the day my daughter Becca presents me with my first grandchild. We know it's going to be a boy, and Becca refers to the little brewer as a 'Uterine Parasite'. I, meanwhile, am a big Jo Brand fan, so to me the lad is...

I decided to do something different today - my first attempt at a rauchbier. There was a bit of a disaster - I realised after I'd put the boiler on that I didn't have any Munich malt - hence the Pilsner / Special 'B' combination. As usual, I'm sticking with my current Belgian theme - "What can...

OK, exchanging ideas with you young hopheads has made me turn my back on Belgian Monastery brews - just for this week. Tomorrow, I'm knocking together something just a little sharper and hoppier - a summery golden pale ale using just Citra hops. I've heard a lot of good stuff about this hop, so...

The beer's name Well, it's the Flemish name for the police force, which is another way of saying 'Belgian Copper' - the style of beer I'm hoping to produce. The grainbill Maris Otter 3.000 kg Lager Malt 1.000 kg CaraPils 0.200 kg Biscuit Malt 0.100 kg Special B 0.100 kg Hop...

I have noticed that a number of members (me especially) have started topics and discussions around Belgian beers over the last few months. Many Belgian recipes call for the inclusion of 'Candi Sugar', and there is a fair amount of mystery surrounding the topic. First of all, a bit of...

Well, I got some tickets because I got the email telling me so today, but I've no idea what or how many (don't do online banking from my current account and the bank statement doesn't arrive for another week or so). It'll probably just be for the footy at Coventry, but you never know.

I thought long and hard about this. Mrs Luckyeddie is a dedicated Belgiumophile and a total dark chocolate fiend. She also loves stout, so as a one-off, I have decided to put together a pretty extreme chocolate stout using my favourite Belgian yeast. Saturday is brewday. It's either going to be...

OK, I have successfully harvested the Westmalle yeast and I'm just itching to use it - so tomorrow is BREWDAY (again). I'm amazed that it will already be my twelfth AG in not much more that 4 months. So here we go... 20 litres planned. Most of the Belgian brews I've done so far have made...

23 litre batch as follows: 1.750 Wheat Malt 1.500 Maris Otter 0.750 Munich Malt 0.340 Torrified wheat 0.250 Wheat, Unmalted 0.100 Cara-Pils/Dextrine 0.075 Flaked Oats Hersbrucker Hallertau 20g @ 45 min Saaz 20g @ 30 min Saaz 15g @ 15 min...

I've decided to go for something really, REALLY strong for my next brew... I was 'just' going to put together a Barley Wine because I've got a couple of dozen bottles and somewhere to stick them for a year or so, but I've decided to add a little Belgian 'complexity' Looking to get 12 litres...

I had a pint of Fullers last week. This is not a clone but I'm certainly hoping for a similar darkish fruitiness with this very simple recipe. Maris Otter 4.6 kg Crystal Malt 120 0.2 kg 66 degree mash for 75 minutes. Was going to be 90 but my iodine test came up negative for...

My son lives no more than 30 yards away from the Merchant's Arms, a pub often described as 'The Finest Pub in Bristol'. I come down here at least 3 or 4 times a year, and never been in the place until tonight. Bristol has been home to or associated with many famous people - John Cabot, Isembard...

OK guys, this isn't going to be relevant to me for a couple of weeks, but I kicked off a lager today (see LE AG#8 - Payback) for the brother in law. When I get round to lagering, is it better to stick the full 20 litre FV in the fridge or can it be split down into 10 * 2 litre PETs or 4 * 5...

Well, the mash tun is now tried and tested with a tough one to handle - a witbier - and there were no stuck mash / sparge problems. Also, the clarity / lack of bits was astounding - a thousand times better than the in-boiler BIAB AG brewing I'd been doing. As payback for Dave (my brother in...

Basically, now my brother in law has done my mash tun plumbing to my specification (although he drilled the manifold holes instead of cutting slots), I have decided to test it out with a brew - a witbier. I'll post some piccies tomorrow, but I've started the preparation - I have prepared the...

Sunday is fast approaching - if my Brother in Law gets his finger out, I will be christening my new mash tun (he is a plumber and is putting together the manifold - it's just going to cost me a brew on his behalf) - otherwise, it will still be BIAB with a difference. Anyway, this is what I have...