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This month we are on Dark Beers: Porters and Stouts are the obvious contenders but open to Black IPAs, Schwarzbiers, Dubbels and anything else that veers towards the dark side. Judging likely to be 8th July or thereabouts. DM for address if needed.

I'm planning a trip to Belgium in the spring. The main reason will be to watch some sport, but we'll have some free time in Brussels. Any recommendations for brewery visits, bars, restaurants, beer shops gratefully accepted.

This is not an entirely serious post! I came across this water analysis yesterday. As a bit of end of season fun, would anyone be tempted to try brewing with this? If so, what would you brew? 5 house points if anyone can guess or identify the water in question.

Any help from experienced Grainfather users appreciated. I have done 2 brews on my new G30 and love the kit but both times I have ended up with a lot less wort than expected. The first I put down to inexperience with the equipment but a repeat performance yesterday has got me questioning...

January 2022: American Pale Ales Main Thread Results: 1st place: @dave_77 - West Coast Hazy IPA (recipe) 2nd place: @MickDundee - "I don't want to change the world' NEIPA (recipe) 3rd place: @Benfleet Brewery - Benfleet Pale (recipe)

Happy New Year All. Its January 1 so time to open a thread for the first competition of 2022. American Pales... so pale beers brewed with (mostly) American hops. Could be APA, IPA, NEIPA, West Coast, East Coast, Hazy... lots of possibilities I'm likely to judge weekend of 12th February so a...

Planning to brew a witbier using some dried seville oranges leftover from the annual marmalade making. We dried whole slices of the fruit in thr dehydrator rather than just the peel. Given most recipes call for just peel, any ideas if I should up the weight I add to reflect these were whole...

I'm planning a spring pale ale with English hops. Probably 4.5% - 5% abv; solid MO grain bill with perhaps a low % of Munich or Light Crystal. I'm undecided on yeast and open to ideas but I want a crisp, hoppy beer rather than a fruity, estery beer. With regards hops, I want to try something...

... You need to become a monk. From the Telegraph: "Belgian beers are under threat from a crippling shortage of new monks to replace its ageing brewing brothers. The recruitment crisis has already led to one brewery, Achel, losing its Authentic Trappist Product label after the last two monks...

What were your brewing & beer highlights of 2020 and what are you looking forward to in 2021? Five Categories: 1.Best beer you brewed in 2020 2.Best Homebrew beer brewed by someone else in 2020 3.Best commercial beer you drank in 2020 4. Best brewing-related thing in 2020 (could be a piece of...

I've been reading Terry Foster's illuminating book on Porters and Stouts. One of his Porter recipes - 'Napoleon Brownaparte' - splits the grain bill in even thirds between pale, Crisp Amber and Crisp Brown malt. The simplicity and symmetry of this are really appealing but it is unlike any other...

I am thinking of trying to make a very pale ale that strips the malt right back and goes full on hoppy. Kind of the opposite of the Vienna Pale currently bubbling away in the fridge. All in the name of experimentation and understanding ingredients and their contribution to a given beer. I...

The first brew in the fermentation fridge is coming to an end. I'm planning to cold crash as, I think, it will help clear the beer and also make racking into the bottling bucket a bit easier with less risk of transferring trub. It's a Citra-led Pale Ale. Gravity stable at 1005. The questions I...

My latest order from MM arrived this week and I'd mistakenly doubled up on an order of 100g whole leaf Tettnang for an upcoming brew. I certainly don't need 200g. Anyone got a surplus pack of a different hop and willing to do a postal swap? Open to suggestions.

I'm looking to extend my understanding and experience of Belgian beer styles. I'm familiar with a few of the more widely available such as Duvel but what else should I look out for? Which are the best breweries? And are there any particular online retailers that do Belgians well? Any advice...

Not sure if this is a stupid question or not... Could you repurpose a freezer as a fermentation chamber with inkbird / heater set up as you would a fridge? Have an opportunity to pick up a second hand one but wanted to check if there is a reason why everyone seems to use fridges not freezers...

I have just bottled 20 x 500ml bottles of my second brew - another AG SMaSH. I batch primed with 60g sugar dissolved in a little hot water then cooled. I added the syrup to the bottom of bottling bucket then syphoned the beer out of the FM bucket on top. In my head, this batch priming would...

Given the number of recent recruits, I sometimes wonder if the regulars on here look on us lockdown newbies the way seasoned marathon runners do at overweight joggers in January dragging their New Year's Resolutions round the local park - knowing that we will disappear as soon as the pubs...