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Jolly Todger Tropical Stout This beer is just what you need on a hot summers day or with a hot curry. Also guaranteed to remedy brewers droop and keeps your todger at peek performance for longer. Must be served cold. The recipe is based on 19th century export stouts, which were commonly...

This year I'm stepping outside my brewing comfort zone and will have a go at brewing some continental stylie beers. I'm feeling an urge towards Belgium, but I'm not totally sure about the mashing scheme I've seen! I have done step mashing quite a bit, but normally within the golden zone at some...

I'm into brown ale, probably because its so unfashionable. This one I have taken a real liking for. Batch: 23L OG: 1.048 FG: 1.013 ABV: 4.6% IBU: 30 500g Pale Ale Malt (10.24%) 3000g Mild Ale Malt (61.41%) 75g Chocolate Malt (1.54%) 900g Crystal 100 (18.42%) 50g Special B (1.02%) 100g Flaked...

I may be being a bit thick, so go gentle with me. I'm trying to get to grips with water chemistry and get away from bottled water. From various places I gather I need some basic parameters. But my water report doesn't have a value for Calcium (Ca), I seem to remember that Ca is 40% of CaCO3...

Thought I'd post up my latest brew. Have been slowly developing the recipe for several years now and is better each time. I even sent a bottle into the forum comp. last year with a 2nd place. :confused: Be careful if you brew up this beer, its very easy drinking and I find it easy to have one...

Orange IPA Marmalade Ingredients... 2.5L India Pale Ale 1kg Oranges 1 Lemon 2kg Sugar Will make around 7 x 450g, so you will need 7 jars (sterilised). Method... 1. Pour the IPA into a large thick bottomed pan. Cut the oranges and lemon in quarters and squeeze the juice into the pan (Remove...

I've been looking at this site to buy some grain... http://brupaks.koruna.co.uk/ Crisp Maris Otter @ 19.50 for 25kg seems a good price. Anyone bought from these guys?

English Dry Stout Tasting Notes... Very dark and rich. Toasted biscuits with roast coffee, raisins and cherries, with some spicy hops. 22L Batch OG: 1.050 FG: 1.012 ABV: 5.0% IBU: 40 (Assuming 75% Efficiency) Mash Fermentables... 2200g Mild Ale Malt (46.6%) 1100g Munich Malt (23.3%) 250g...

I (and others) often spout 2 + 2 + 2 as a rule of thumb for minimum timescales for fermentation, conditioning and maturation i.e. 2 weeks of each. This is particulary useful for new AG and kit brewers, especially for those kit brewers who have followed the insructions with the kit and expect...

I have a grist list in imperial quarters for Carlsberg stout from 1870... 2 Pale Malt 9 Amber Malt 1 Black Malt 3 Brown Malt OG: 1.077 I've converted into home brew size using this conversion: IQ / 1.9 x 1000 = grams for each malt (with a little rounding) 1050g Pale Malt 12.7% 4750g Amber...

I love doing research into recipes before brewing, especially from the 19th and 20th centuries and like to follow the brewing methods and like, back in the day. So, recently I've been on a mission to get together a really good Porter recipe/method. I found the following and think I've hit the...

I've been wanting to brew an all malt Best Bitter for a long time. I've been bogged down with brewing 19th and 20th century English beer of all types. Most of them with a proportion of adjunts and sugars of one type or another! So, below is my recipe and method, I've based it on Fullers London...

I'm going to have a go at brewing an Imperial Stout (Courage 1914 recipe, slightly modified!) http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/lets-brew-wednesday-1914-courage.html I don't often brew big beers, generally around 3-5% is my mark, due to falling converion with over 5kg malt. So I've...