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  1. AdeDunn

    Too busy to brew...

    What can I say, just been too busy to brew lately... Between local brats deciding that our living room window is good for target practice, leading to 4 days of constant call outs to the police, and our finally installing CCTV:- Hiring a skip to do a MASSIVE spring clean of the house and...
  2. AdeDunn

    Valentine's gift for my wife.

    So, I mentioned in my thread about my shiny new FV that I'd bought my wife a shiny new pasta maker for Valentine's day as a thank you. She used to have a machine years ago, but for some daft reason it got thrown away, and she's been hankering for a new one ever since. So, here it is, in all of...
  3. AdeDunn

    New shiny (FV)

    So, my wife bought me a new shiny for my upcoming birthday, arrived today via DPD from Geterbrewed (ordered yesterday......), a Brew Monk stainless steel Conical FV... athumb..
  4. AdeDunn

    Squirrel Brows orange infused pale ale

    This is a quite delicious pale ale, infused with the flavour of oranges. Deliciously summery and ready quite quickly. I brewed it full volume, aiming for 14 litres into FV, so if you want more you will need to scale the recipe. Recipe was calculated for an estimated brewhouse efficiency of...
  5. AdeDunn

    My Brewzebo

    I've posted about this before, however with a few discussions recently that have ended up with folks recommending brewing outside, I figured now is a good time to mention this again. I switched to brewing outside myself this time around, and purchased a Gazebo from Amazon for the purpose, one...
  6. AdeDunn

    Brewferm Grain Gorilla

    So, took the plunge and bought a malt mill, Brewferm Grain Gorilla from Get Er Brewed. Been having trouble with the crushed malt I have been too fine and lots of it passing through the holes in the malt basket on my new machine, then clogging up the pipes (it gets stuck on the barb part of 1...
  7. AdeDunn

    Ade's Brauheld Pro Brewdays

    AG: #1 Elvis Juice Clone attempt (DIYDog) AKA: Things go wrong when you brew during Pokemon Go Fest.... Yup, it was, and I did, and they did.... Combining new equipment with been a teeny tiny bit distracted, what could go wrong right? :laugh8: Wellll, first off, I forgot to take off the...
  8. AdeDunn

    New beginnings with near gear....

    I wasn't sure where to post this, but figured here was probably best suited. As mentioned elsewhere, been a while since I brewed. Health reasons mainly, kinda got difficult using my old DIY kit really. So yeah, been waiting for some expected money to turn up as the Mrs told me I could buy a...
  9. AdeDunn

    Took the plunge...

    So, a nice man from DPD just delivered a huge box.... Brewing stuff obviously.... My awesome wife let me get a Fermentasaurus. athumb.. She may be regretting it now however, having seen the size of it..... lol
  10. AdeDunn

    Yet another new BIAB bag...

    So, thanks to my darling wife (said both sarcastically, and genuinely), I now have yet another new BIAB bag... lol Sarcastically, because she ruined one of my old bags (the one I got off AlliExpress luckily...). She forgot she still had it after my last brew day (she took it with spent grain...
  11. AdeDunn

    So, these Imperial A09 Pub starters...

    Anybody else made starters with the stuff? It's seriously challenging my stir plate! The stuff is so thick and heavy, it just wants to sink out and clog the stir bar! Good job today is the last day on the stir plate. Oh, I ended up with 2 starters after having to dilute, as my stir plate...
  12. AdeDunn

    Bottles

    So, on Friday my wife informed me that I needed to brew for her on the Monday just gone, and as she knew this would mean that I needed more bottles fast, ordered me some. They arrived today. £25.50 for 50 500mls bottles from the beer company south on eBay :linky, not bad I reckon. They also...
  13. AdeDunn

    Tongue In Yer Ear - Golden Ale

    Posting this one for those looking for an easy to drink, sessionable, golden ale. Could probably even get a lager drinker to drink this. Based on a brew house efficiency of 75% OG: 1.043. Colour: 8.9 EBC. Bitterness: 38.4 IBUs . Batch size: 14 Litres. Mash: BIAB full volume. 90 minutes @ 67...
  14. AdeDunn

    Rusty probe...

    So, took my boiler apart for a bit of maintenance today, and to relocate the mashing probe from the lid to the tap.... Glad I did, this is what I found on one of the probes.... Funnily enough, this was the first probe I ordered, and came from China via Ebay... My other probe is spotless...
  15. AdeDunn

    Librarian's Wit

    This is probably one for those with either all in one machines, eBiab machines, or who are up for advanced mashing techniques, as it includes an acid rest in the mash. It's worth it though for sure! I have an eBiab kettle rims I built myself, making step mashing quite easy to achieve:-...
  16. AdeDunn

    Crivens! British Strong Ale

    A good, fairly strong, winter warmer this one. Started out intending this one to be an ESB, but overshot on efficiency and produced a British strong ale to good effect. VERY warming as it goes down, so needs at least 6 weeks conditioning after bottling to calm down the alcohol burn from the...
  17. AdeDunn

    Rousing Yeast - An Experiment Done Many Times

    I'm sure lots of you have done this, many many many times. But I tried this myself too recently, so thought I would share. As many of you know, not that long ago I brewed a Belgian Witbier. Stepped mash, with a nice acid rest. Used Mangrove Jack's M21 Belgian Wit Yeast (and what a naughty...
  18. AdeDunn

    Extracts and flavourings (the bottled sort)

    I did some tastings with extracts and flavouring recently, using cheap porter. Thought I'd share my findings and musings with you folks:- Special Ingredients Plum Flavour Drop 30ml - Just don't do it! Tested these in a porter, as I was hoping to use them in a plum porter. Once I had put...
  19. AdeDunn

    My First Go With Liquid Yeast

    So, finally giving liquid yeast a go. Gone for Yeast Bay Sigmund's Voss Kveik as seems a fairly bomb proof option. Struck lucky too, discovered that the bung on my Speidel airlock is the EXACT right size to fit into the neck of my 3 litre flask, so I've been able to use that airlock on the...
  20. AdeDunn

    Current Bargain On Amazon Kindle - Brewing Britain

    Just grabbed myself a copy of Brewing Britain: The Quest For The Perfect Pint by Andy Hamilton on Kindle as it's currently 70% off, making it £2.99. I've had a quick flick through, and seems a good book, with a bit of everything in there. Bit more than your average brewing book, as discusses...
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