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The first swap of 2024 is a quiet one with just three swapping time round. Post reviews, recipes and thoughts on the style here.

For those not in the know, the coordinated beer swap has proved to be a popular addition to the forum in recent years. The aim is to brew something slightly out of your comfort zone, and then swap 3 beers and their recipes with some brewed by other forum members at the same time. On the back of...

Seasons greetings one and all. I know of one beer that’s still en route, hopefully every one else has got two. Post a photo and a review of your beers below. The thread will stay open until all the beers have been reviewed. Then, I‘ll post the usual round up of who sent to who and what beers...

This has become my favourite Wordle variant. It’s definitely one for power players. You are told how many green and yellow letters you’ve guessed, but not which letters they are. Getting to the solution requires an intriguing mix of logic and word guessing.

Evening all, Halloween is over and that can only mean one thing, it's time to start thinking about Christmas! For most people the Secret Santa Swap doesn't need any introduction. For those who do it's very simple, keep reading. A few weeks before Christmas you send off a beer to one or two...

Evening all! There’s a couple of beers to review this time round. Impy Stouts and BLAM entries. Post your photos, reviews, recipes and general insights on all beers/styles here.

Sorry for the late start to this, and thank you @Tess Tickle's Brewery for the reminder. Post all reviews, recipes and your thoughts on the style here. 😔

Apologies to all, I’ve been a bit tardy in announcing this one. It’s a bit of a loose style and doesn’t yet have a specific mention in BJCP but the Brewers Association do cover it. Plan will be to swap at end of August, or possibly early September given my late announcement and the fact the...

Theres a few bitters and Belgian Wits doing the rounds this month. Post your reviews here, and is customary, any insights you’ve gained from the swap and wish to share.

No.1 Son introduced this to me this week, It made for a very fun hour of solving. Thankfully he’s great at these games, Word500 and Fibble and just beyond me.

Evening all, this months competition is lager/kolsch/pseudo lager to include European and American styles. Judging will take place 4th-6th May depending on how many entries there are, beers should arrive before end of April so they have time to settle before tasting. This months prize will...

I’ve decided its time to pull all the brewdays into a single thread. Today was brew No.50 on the Grainfather. Soundtrack: System of A Down and Dave Lee Roth. Disasters: Discovered a mouse had got into one of the grain bins, fortunately none of todays grains were involved. Brew: Munich Helles...

Most of the Rye IPA reviews are in, spring has sprung (except in Upper Ballinderry where the snow is 3 inches think on my doorstep) and its time to think about the next few collaborative brews. March Brew - the slow burner, Imperial Stout In a change to last years format, we decided to include...

No problems with the postal service this time round, and I think most of the beers have landed. Post your reviews here and round up with your recipe, some thoughts on the style, whether you’ll brew again and what you’d do differently based on the other brewers beers. Happy drinking :beer1:

A nice Wordle variant. Longer words have repeating letters indicated by the polygons at the top. I’ve got 2 of these in 1 but my average is between 3 and 4. #Polygonle 173 5/6︎  ⬢︎   ◼︎   ◼︎  ◢︎  ◆︎  ◥︎  ◢︎  ◣︎ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.polygonle.com

No.2 son joined me for another brew day today. This one is destined for the Forum Brew and Swap, and I’ll enter it in LAB if I can work out what category it should go in. Based on a Weyermann recipe Vitals - OG 1.060, EBC 40, IBU 56. Expected FG 1.008 Water Ca 100, Mg 6, SO4 150, Cl 50...

My Lager Than Life entry, up against Jack’s NZ Pils that he ended up naming “Pilsner of Azkaban“. (Ethics Gradient was very cool GSV that featured in The Use Of Weapons in case you were wondering). 23L batch Water Ca 75, SO4 55, Cl 75, Mg 6 Fermentables 2kg Munich I 1.6kg Vienna malt 1.6kg...

No.2 son has entered this beer and brewed it with me today. Hopefully we will be able to meet up in London for the competition. He hasn’t come up with a name yet, Water Ca 75, Mg 8, SO4 85. Cl 65 Fermentables Pilsner malt 2.75kg Pale malt 2 kg Wheat malt 500g Carapils 150g Mash 60min 65C...

Seasons greetings everyone 🎄 Postal strikes have affected the swap this year unfortunately, but hopefully everyone is in possession of at least one beer at this point in time. I can confirm that all beers have been sent, and in the case of breakages, replacements are on the way from the...

Evening all. Once again the collaborative brew has turned up some interesting observations and I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the reviews as they come in. Next on the list was Speciality IPA, brewing in January to swap last weekend in February. We just need to pick a sub-style to...