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I received a birthday present of 8 bottles or cans per month of world beers from Beer52 just as Covid started. Although I brew my own ale, I find it interesting to get beers I can't get locally delivered, and it makes me drink ale I wouldn't drink by choice. This month is Belgian month, and in...

I've not really been following what has been gone off in the beer dispensing world far a few years, not that I did much before. I have six or so cornies but I have only really needed one tap before, working away 4 days a week meant that I only needed one tap. I tend to keg half of an 80 litre...

Good evening all. I haven't been on the forum for ages, just found time to start brewing more than twice a year again. What's new? Last time I was on here the forum had been sold on and the new one was full of adverts and other annoying things so jumped ship to other forums then stopped brewing...

We are just planning holidays for next year, we like the Edinburgh fringe, mainly for the comedy and SWMBO has always wanted to go to see the Highland games, and we intend to do both, the fringe finishes 25th August and the Cowal highland gathering is 28th to 30th in Dunoon, 80 miles to the...

I brewed an extra stout yesterday that I have brewed before, the only major change to the recipe was a reduction in pale malt from 14kg to 11.5kg. As I'm a bit remote my visitors tend to drive and hesitate to sample high ABV beer so I thought I would keep it down to a reasonable level. Looking...

I haven't brewed since I got hitched and made "Wedding Tackle" ale. According to the guests my Wedding Tackle was very tasy and they couldn't get enough - :) I have grown and picked some hops however I've mislaid the bit of paper that said which plant was which variety, I now have 4 different...

First of a few brews for my upcoming nuptuals in June. Nottingham yeast Beersmith tends to default to pellet in the hops inventory so if you think your hopping is bit light and your using leaf hops, make sure you specify that in the inventory. I found I tended to agree with Beersmith more once...

I haven't brewed for a few months, work got in the way, and last weekend there was an 8 foot drift against the barn door. I'm getting hitched in June so time to start brewing for the reception, in true tight Yorkshire fashion we are doing most of the reception ourselves using our barn as the...

I've just bought something expensive on e-bay and the guy has zero previous transactions and wants a bank transfer before delivery. Its a bit too far for me to check it out in person, just want somebody to check the item exists and its not a scammer. I will pay anybody willing to do this, the...

Just been down to the barn to grab a pint from the cornie, on the way back the wind (meteorological not sprout generated) blew the head off my beer? Whats should I do? Move house to somewhere less windy, device a cunning head protection device or become a southerner where they don't care for a...

My last brew was pants, experimenting with different yeasts and dry hopping and got an infection so going back to basics with a standard bitter type beer with no dry hopping and nottingham yeast. Must have beer for Christmas and down to my last cornie. Decided to use all the opened hops in my...

I've been off the forum for a few weeks due to work,family and other hobby commitments and an attempted burglary. The former I don't mind but the latter, really cheeses me off as its delayed my planned brew day by about 3 weeks :x The good news is that the security I had in place worked and...

Dr Watson gets home from a long tiring day in his surgery to find Sherlock Holmes with a very attractive female client. The girl is sitting on the chaise longue, legs akimbo while Sherlock is painting her privates yellow "What are you doing Sherlock?" insists Dr Watson "Its a lemon...

Seeing as sports drinks are 99% marketing and 1% science, and all taste ****, I was wondering if there would be a market for a mildly alcoholic hypotonic ale that tasted half decent, might as well as enjoy yourself while being fleeced. An isotonic drink has to have similar salt and sugar levels...

Just wondering how others do this. Currently I cool the post boil wort through the plate heat exchanger directly into the FV, benefits is ease/speed of use and not disturbing the hot break however on the last 80L brew I took about 4L of cold break out of the bottom of the conical FV. The PHE...

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I've decided to make a brew loosely based on Alemans' Effin Lancashire Blonde. I don't have over 300g of Styrian goldings (or fuggles substitute to hand) but i do have 200g of very fresh Nelson Sauvin. I dont have lager malt but I do have pilsner malt, I don't have Safalae S05 yeast but I do...

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I've made a variety of ales but none to her taste, however most have been towards the IPA style. She does like various beers from bitters, lagers, blonde summer ales, wheat beers and belgian fruit beers. I suspect thinner paler beers with a bit of sweetness and citrussy hops may go down well...

Seeing as the cellar in the barn is always aboiut 12c and I dont drink much lager, I dont really need a kegaerator for the cornies, just a tap on the outside of the cellar. As I don't particularly want a bar in the barn, it would get in the way, I decided to wall mount the tap. Here's the...