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Scientists use spent brewer's yeast to filter out metal from waste streams by Frontiers When we recycle electronic devices we can no longer use, we expect to make the most out of the precious natural resources that went into building them. But electronic waste is notoriously difficult to...

I might go if I have chance. Here is the provisional beer list:

I recently brewed my winter ale, which has been fermenting for a week in the kitchen at ambient. Just noticed the thermometer in the cupboard is reading a chilly 12C, and assuming the weather stays cold I am wondering if I need to do a Diacetyl rest before I bottle it in another week's time...

Rabbit being the long-eared small mammal.... Ours appeared by chance in the garden one day. We get a lot of wild rabbits eating grass and weeds but she was clearly a domestic rabbit, a Yellow Dutch as it turns out. The most likely scenario is she was dumped unwanted into the wild and crossed...

A bit wacky but here's two short stories generated from an AI chatbot called Claude. Quite impressed by the story 😂 I’m editing a new anthology of short stories called “Selling lobsters to Rick Stein”. The only rules are the story has to be about 300 words and has to end with the sentence “And...

For one of my winter / Christmas beers I'm making a pine IPA which will be an American hazy pale ale with piney hops and also pine needle late addition in the boil. When I dry hop I will also be adding a pine tea. I'm hoping to get some piney resin flavour from the hops but I want it to taste a...

Couple of weeks ago I read this pub had sold and then at the weekend it burned fairly badly, and was almost immediately demolished. Very coincidental timing! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66472000

New beer category ‘fresh ale’ is introduced A new beer category, named ‘fresh ale’ has been created by Otter Brewery to bridge the gap between craft beer, cask ale and lager. ‘Fresh ales’ are beers that are initially brewed as cask ales, but instead of being filled into casks they are gently...

Our kitchen Fridge seems to be playing up, the back is freezing up and stuff is too cold, sometimes frozen. The door seal seems ok, although it has cracks it still forms a tight seal It's a good Beko fridge freezer about 10 years old and would prefer to keep it. It could be the thermostat which...

Not promoting them per se, but this looks interesting. I know Wetherspoon's don't have a great rep on here but it seems quite a good idea. There's some ales with the relatively new Harlequin, Olicana, Jester etc, and looks to be a lot of good breweries involved...

I'm still learning the water side of brewing... I'm doing a pale ale with Anglian water, the hardest water I've come across - from the water report the hardness is something like 300ppm as carbonate. Very high - the limescale left on everything the water touches confirms this to be the case...

For a good few years I've been hearing about how pollenators and in particular bee populations bees are suffering, and the apparent mystery behind it, a bit like the Bermuda Triangle. Well, I went on a walk with friends over the Easter bank holiday and at one point it was alongside a big field...

I suspect a fair few people on here know how to weld... it's something I've wanted to learn to do for quite a long time for various reasons, and ties in with brewing. I also have an old car that could do with patching up. I have an Engineering degree so know a bit of metallurgy theory already...

This is potentially a bit of a strange question but recently I've developed a liking for a background flavour that comes through in certain beers. It's not an obviously hoppy or bitter flavour but almost an earthy or even dusty flavour. The only commercial example I can think of that had it was...

I like to support smaller breweries and noticed there's a local one doing 4.5 gallon pins for the price of £45 which seems a good price if their beer's any good, only I've never served from cask so I'm a bit unsure how to do it. I know many of you, if not most, use kegs for homebrew so how easy...

I have a bag of amber malt in my stock cupboard but can't remember what possessed me to buy it. I haven't found many recipes with it in the grain bill and most beers described as amber don't seem to use it. I've seen it called biscuit malt so I assume it gives biscuit flavours when used in small...

Picked a few of the first ripe Blackberries today and it's got me thinking about using them in beers. I love Blackberries, wheat beers and plum porter so the obvious plans are a blackberry porter and possibly a blackberry wheat. Am I right in thinking the best way is to rack to a secondary...

Tried this yesterday and it was pretty good, exceeded my expectations, worth the RRP so definitely worth it as a freebie. Offer finishes tomorrow so theres a day left. You have to buy it from Tesco (for £4.50) then send a photo of your receipt and payment details for the refund at the form...

Did a witbier at the weekend and in short, I didn't have enough T-58 left over in the pack from a previous brew. I don't intend to use that yeast again any time soon so don't want to buy another pack. Could've built a starter if I'd known but not having much time I pitched and within 12 hours it...

For background, I brewed a few weeks back and with only having 500g of malt leftover I used a bag of DME to compensate (a mistake in hindsight) but since it was only a 1 gallon batch it ended up at like 7% abv. I did my usual assortment of different sized bottles, some 330 and some 500 and one...