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How do our wonderful members :D We were asked after the success of The Spring Thing when the next meet/get together would be :wha: And the answer is Friday the 23rd September :party: No competition just a social and bottle swap :D The venue will be Hopleys in Bewdley I am hoping to...

Ladies and Gentlemen may I present the first brew day on the Lamplight brewery :D The recipe, Lamplight No.1 A ProMash Recipe Report BJCP Style and Style Guidelines ------------------------------- 08-A English Pale Ale, Standard/Ordinary Bitter Min OG: 1.032 Max OG: 1.040 Min IBU...

Right at last we are moved into the new house and all the final little bits that needed doing should be completed early next week so it's time to get the brewery build under-way :D I have decided to go up in size and to this end I have ordered a 100l stainless stock pot fitted with 3 piece...

Here you go guys and girls, raw unedited photos from the weekend, I will add captions of what I can remember :oops: Setting up camp Unclepumble gets everywhere :grin: Wez and Dunfie in the brewery tap, the drinking begins :drink: Camping in style Tubby and Wez enjoying a glass of...

The Spring Thing is rapidly approaching :party: What we need to know from you, our wonderful members is will you be attending ? We need this information so that we can organise the event at the best possible cost and with the best possible amenities :thumb: If you could also add a little...

Hoping for a lovely citrusy easy drinking pale ale :thumb: Von Koine Chain Ale 40L 80% efficiency 30 IBU OG 1.040 3.9% abv 5.5kg Lager malt 400g Cara pils 250g Vienna malt 250g Wheat malt 500g glucose 42g Chinook Pellets 11% aa(Thanks Mark :D ) 90 minute boil 40g Chinook pellets 11% last...

I haven't posted a brewday in a while so ......... Started this off last night Blueberry wheat 33L OG 1.050 3.5kg Pale Malt 3kg Wheat malt 40g Cascade Whole hops Yeast WLP 300 The Grist Mash on (a lot of chaff on the top :hmm: ) The cascades in the boiler Hop soup Rolling boil...

I had a couple of old fermenting buckets that had seen better days :( and wanted to put them to good use :) I also had the problem of what to do with a pork belly from half a pig :wha: So thanks to a variation on a H F-W Recipe I'm having a go at making bacon :grin: So in the little...

Happy Birthday Have a great day :cheers:

I picked up 4 bottles of this the other day Mainly because of what it says at the bottom of the second paragraph, "White Shield boasts a small amount of William Worthington's feisty dual yeast" So I'm going to culture the yeast and pitch it into a Pale Ale on Saturday 11th Sept. So while I...

Bloody marvellous :clap: A great how to Big Yin, I've never seen the cables from the kettle re used before 8-)

Today I am pushing the limits of my mash tun! I have used the forum recipe tool to scale THIS recipe to a 42 litre batch size. This gave me a total grain bill of 9.8kg at 78% efficiency and with a stiff mash of 2L/kg it only just fits :shock: Sparging is going to be fun :wha:

The beer was supplied in a clear bottle with an informative label The bottle opened with a loud hiss and released a massive aroma of hops :D As can be seen from the picture it is very well carbonated and I was unable to pour the whole of the bottle into the glass due to the size of the...

Todays brew is Yippee Aye PA :D 40L OG 1.054 estimated abv 5.2% 37 IBU 7kg Pale Malt (MO) Mashed in 20L of liquor at 67C for 90 minutes Fly sparge Boiled for 90 min with 20g Magnum pellets 15%aa and 50g Sovereign whole hops 25g Sovereign added for the last 30 min of the boil 25g Sovereign...

I will review these in the order that I received them :thumb: First up muddydisco's Caveman brew The beer was supposed to be supplied in these labelled bottles Unfortunately due to a mix up it was supplied like this :grin: The bottle opened with a gentle hiss that belied the generous...

Using up some bits and pieces, recipe HERE The grain bill 15 litres of Mash liquor Mash on I'll update as the day progresses :thumb:

Firstly let me apologise for the lack of pictures, camera batteries are flat :( The beer was supplied in a 500ml bottle with a plain but informative label. The bottle opened with a good hiss and delivered a very hoppy aroma straight from the bottle :) The beer poured with a good head and is...

Over the years I have tried brewing a few strawberry wines and have always been disappointed with the final flavour :( But after trying a couple of bottles of THIS Strawberry white Zinfandel kindly supplied by Wez I thought that I had found the ideal summer wine, unfortunately these kits are...

Yesterdays brew was this M&S 40L O.G. 1.045 T.G. 1.011 Alc % 4.3 I.B.U. 30.2 Ingredients: 6 kgs Pale Ale Malt (MASH) 500 g Corn (MASH) 250 g Crystal 20L (MASH) 500 g Flaked Barley (MASH) 30 g Magnum 15% BOIL 90...