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Well turns out I could only get hold of M29. Popped round to see Ben from KegThat on my way home from work.. what a nice chap! but according to northern brewer it’s repacked belle anyway. Will get this on tomorrow and ferment at 25C.. thanks BassoonBrew! Any tried and trusted killer recipes...

thanks.. think I will go with belle saison.

Never done a saison but quite fancy giving it a try, especially in this heat. the options at the moment are mangrove jacks M29 or Lallemand belle saison. Haven’t got time for liquid yeast. any advice on which might be the best option would be much appreciated!

I’ve not looked into gruit ales much realily. What do yarrow, bog myrtle and sweet gale bring to the brew? Are they for bittering at the start of the boil too or are some of them for late additions?

Fingers crossed. I’ll report back in a couple of weeks.

I was tempted to throw some hops in too, but decided against it. ill let you know how it turns out.

The recipe 2kg lager malt 2kg vienna 1kg munich 300g special b 320g carafa1 250g caramunich 1 22g mugwort

Decided to aim for the bottom of the range

And are the Litres finished or pre boil. I’m assuming finished. So for a 23L batch I should be using 5-17g of dried or 20-70g of fresh.

That’s great! Thanks Dave! Did you also use hops at the start of the boil or just bitter with mugwort?

I am planning on making a brew with mugwort today. I have grown this plant from seed and it is about 3 foot tall. It looks like it is about to flower so I guess I better get a brew on. Really struggled to find any recipes online, so no idea how much to use. If anyone has any experience with this...

No worries! Glad to hear it’s not just me that flattens the co2 🤣

Everyone does things slightly differently depending on setup. You can either wind the pressure up higher and turn the gas off to let it carbonate or leave the gas on at a lower pressure. The former is faster but risky cos you can over carbonate. Once it’s carbed up and at serving pressure you...

Agree with all of the above, but you don’t need to “give it a really good shake”. When you have decanted the beer off your brew, you add the preboiled water to the yeast cake and give it a gentle swirl to get the yeast into suspension. You don’t want to oxygenate it at this stage. Then I leave...

just checked the web-bier website and they no longer ship to the uk!! thankyou brexit!

Last time I bought a load of flip top bottles, i bought a box of 24 Hacker-Pschorr Munich Dunkel from web-beer.com. 1.60 Euro per bottle and 20 Euro delivery came to 55 Euros for 24. that's less than £2/bottle and very nice beer. they also do Hacker-Pschorr hefe weisse, festbier, kellerbier...

sounds great! I'm tempted to get one on now. kolsch can be difficult to clear if you let that big frothy head sink into the beer. traditionally they scoop this off for the next brew, so there is less yeast in suspension to floc. I've tried it both ways and scooping the yeast off makes it much...

Looks great! I do love a Kolsch. Haven't used that yeast before though. I usually use Safale K97, which is a heavy top cropper, so I skim the yeast off the top for the next brew. I usually do what you have done with the hops to give it a bit of a twist. I like Motueka. You don't need much...