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My favourites: Bells 2-Hearted IPA and Grapefruit Sculpin by Ballast Point.

I've tried one of each of the IPAs and I am blown away by the results. The flavours from both really come through; the Earl Grey has a nice sweetness and the Jalapeno has a strong taste from the peppers (my wife thinks that it is too strong). If I had to complain, I'd say that they need more...

I'm a total novice but I did one brew without a bag and one brew with; the difference was night and day. The one with is much clearer at a much earlier stage. My main worry though was that there wouldn't be as much hoppiness due to the hops being contained in a bag instead of being free in the...

I brewed up the Wilko IPA kit but did 1/2 as an Earl Grey IPA and the other as a Jalapeno IPA. When brewing, I added medium spraymalt and sugar as well as some strong hops as there wasn't a whiff of hops in its standard form. After around 10 days, I dry hopped with more. Initiall tastes when...

Pretty much my thinking but wanted to check with the experts

I brewed some Wilko stout and bottled some but left some in a pressure barrel. The bottled stuff has come out well but teh barrel stuff is very, very flat. If I take the barrel contents and add a carbonation drop before bottling, would it bring it back from the current flat state? I'm new to...

I've had a couple of mine after being in the FV for over 2 weeks, bottled and left in teh house for 10 days and then put out into teh garage for a week. I did 10 with some grapefruit juice and the rest as standard AIPA. I also added extra hops before bottling as I like a nice hoppy beer. I'm...

I just re-read the sentence and it could be misleading; I meant that I would only use one of the priming drops instead of 2 and then substitute an amount of grapefruit juice that had an equal volume of sugar to the drop. I think it was around 20ml so it'll be interesting to taste it.

I'm aiming to bottle the beer tonight. I might substitute the 2 priming drops with 1 drop and the equivalent amount of grapefruit juice in a dozen just to see how it goes. I have my bottle drainer, bottle washer and other bits all sorted. Has anyone got any tips? My plan is to siphon out of...

Oh yes! I lived in the US for a few years and got used to the massively hopped IPAs there. I've struggled to get what I like since returning; the closest so far have been some of the Brewdog beers and Vocation too. Based on my taste/smell of the Youngs, I felt a little more hoppy kick was...

Just checked today and it's reading 1.007 so I'm happy with that. Just added some more hops I bought separately as I like nice big hoppy beers. I'm hoping to bottle on Wed/Thu.

I had a good read around that thread; lots of useful stuff.

Thanks. It's in the kitchen on the worktop in a quiet corner. My concern was the change in temperature between us being in and the heating on vs us being at work. That said, the external thermometer shows between 18 and 20

Quite bitter but such a nice hoppy taste. I do have 2 extra hp teabags but might leave them for now

From what I can see, it seems to be 1.010

I'm a first time and decided to use the Young's American IPA kit. I followed the instructions and it all seemed to go ok. However, I didn't take an initial SG reading. After a lot of steady bubbling, I took the SG after a week and the hydrometer dropped right down to the red mark. I added hops...