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Well, having planted the hops in April, here's the result. Fuggles - 1.4kg fresh Challenger 400g fresh Here's the bines growing in about August. Here's the bines just before cutting yesterday. Currently drying on a homemade wire rack. Here's the picked cones:

For sale is my 70L stainless pot and lid which I sourced from Rob at "The Malt Miller". It has a Pegler ball valve fitted to it, and a sight tube (stainless elbow, stainless back nut, John guest poly tube pushfit adaptor, poly sight tube). You can fit your own hop filter etc. SOLD Thanks, Guy

Am making a witbier this weekend - Ho's Garters, Hoegaarden clone. The recipe calls for 500g of Flaked Wheat, but I haven't got any, so can I use something to replace it? The recipe also uses 500g of Torriefied Wheat, which i have a load of, can I double up on the Torriefied Wheat to replace...

Following the great success I had with the Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild plus Hibiscus, I've decided to add 50g of boiled Hibiscus flower "juice" to the wort from a Wherry kit (due to lack of time). The Safale-04 is making short work of it at the moment. Will report back the results.

Daft question, i used Danstar Nottingham for my last brew, I didn't top crop as i was worried about infection. I did however keep the remnants of yeast for washing etc. Will the yeast be re-usable if I just took the slurry if it is a top cropper?

Well, it's the first brew in the new Man Cave Brewery, and I decided to do a recipe from the BYOBRA book and chose the Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild. Previously I posted that I'd had a few pints of Huna Red from Sunny Republic at the Sheffield Tap, one of the unusual additions being Hibiscus...

Having recently moved house, the stocks of the elixir of life have been exhausted :cry: So, three weeks and a day since we moved in, something needed to be done as Mrs B is out of Penis Grigio!!! :grin: .... ManCave renovation. Wife, two kids, dog and bikes - Mr Trebus would be proud...

It's been a while, and have been getting by on St Peter's IPA and Ruby Red plus some wine I put away for a few months - all due to moving house. Existing stocks exhausted now, St P. RRA nearly finished in primary. My pocket is weeping at the price of beer in the shop! Now I've got a double...

Just wondering whether or not I could reclaim any yeast from this bottle, it says "bottle fermentation" on the back, but not sure if the brew is pasteurised or not? I've not had this beer before, and bought it at ASDA as it was 2 for £3 (purely as I thought I will try it having seen the thread...

I've done a few AG's now and getting itchy feet for something other than Ale, not a masive fan of lager, but I do like witbier, - my experience of supping it is limited to Hoegaarden, BlueMoon and something I forget in Brittainy last year. I have read with interest an number of threads, mainly...

I have brewed with my AG set up for about 12months now, and up until now, I've measured the temperature with a digital meat fork (this is a bit tricky due to the fact that I have to hang my siliconed oven gloved hand over the boiling wort, and it's not very safe, plus last time I dropped it in...

I saw the thread for the Solar Pump and thought, I need one of those, to save me having to lift 25 litres of wort from the floor to the boiler on top of a kitchen unit - and the shed ceiling is not that high, so it's a struggle to tip the wort into the boiler.. So I decided to get a solar pump...

Doing a bit of modifications to my boiler, I was wanting to add a temperature sensor without having to put my digital meat fork into the brew each time - so I can see at a glance the temperature (plus last time I dropped it in by accident, and now it's a bit hit and miss if it works). I found...

I had a few jars with some of my colleagues after work yesterday, and being local to the Sheffield Tap, we all went there > a cunning plan of mine! :grin: I sampled the above ale - Huna Red – Hibiscus Ale brewed by http://www.sunnyrepublic.com in Dorset. Wow, we supped the last five or six...

I've bought myself a second corny from Leyland Homebrew - I happened to be passing through work. When I've sterilised and pressurised it, I was somewhat dismayed to note that the OUT post has a leak when you disconnect the QD - I also notice that I have to press down a lot harder on the OUT...

Ok, I've invested in a corny, regulator, co2, beer line, tap etc. I kegged 19L of St Peter's on Saturday afternoon - after sterilising said Corny with videne as per the dilution advised on here (1.25 per L). I gassed up the corny to about 12 psi, purged it, and left it in the fridge which is...

Have got all the gear now, and some videne is due tomorrow from Asda Pharmacy.. When I carbonate the corny with CO2 do i leave the CO2 cylinder attached to the corny with valve open? I'd assumed that I put CO2 in to the required psi, and purge and then disconnect and leave it to condition for...

Ok, I have been brewing for a few years and have taken the plunge from kits, to AG a while ago. I got fed up with having a load of glass bottles about the place and the labour that is bottling. So having had my birthday, I decided to invest in a Corny, a regulator (single stage twin gauge), a...

I'm following a couple of the how to guides to add a sight glass to my Boiler (70L pot from the Malt Miller). I've found a supplier of Acrylic tube of the right size (15x11mm - wall thickness is 2mm) and it's virtually half the price of the Polycarbonate stuff. I also wondered if 3/8" clear...

decided to do Wadworth 6X from the Wheeler book, all went to plan including OG then got permission to do Cameron's Strongarm which is currently bubbling away with Brewlabs' Burton Ale Yeast, and is AG #6 god, I love brewing beer..