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The penultimate bottle of my El Dorado Smash, bottled 4th Feb.

23l stout last week 23l bitter yesterday Total:2478 litres

Thanks all for your advice. I’ve settled on the following for a 23l batch, it’s currently chilling: 4kg Minch pale malt 230g crystal 150 170g wheat malt 140g crystal 100 20g roasted barley (I used all the choc malt in my stout last week) Mashed at 68C for one hour. 30 minute boil: 30g...

A pint of my American Amber Ale. This seems to be one of those magic kegs that don’t run out. It’s got noticeably better after a few weeks in the keg

I’m not either to be honest, I’ve seen a few bitter recipes with a little bit in, presumably for colour. Adding this increases the EBC from 17 to 23, which better puts it better in the style range. Would 30g in 23l contribute significantly to flavour?

I ended up making another stout last week, and I love stout. Tomorrow’s brew day is going to be “something different” brew, I fancy making a bitter. I’ve had a look at a few OB recipes, the suggestions above and tweaked to what ingredients I have in. This is the current plan: 23L 1.043 OG 23...

Ya barred 😂

That last post was obviously the magic number. I have just been promoted to Landlord 🥳🤪

Mine’s the same, although I haven’t got grommets, the temp probe lead just goes in through the door seal

The stout is down to 1.013 now, so a respectable 4.6%. I’ve had a sip out of the trial jar, it tastes really nice. However I am worried it looks brown, rather than the stouty blackness I expected despite the 500g chocolate malt addition. Hopefully it will look better once it’s in a pint pot...

I’ve re used yeast a few times, usually when brewing fairly soon after kegging the first beer. I use a sanitised serving spoon to scoop out the trub and storing in a jam jar or pint glass in the fridge until it’s ready to be used again. Never done more than 2 generations though. I’ve used...

Where abouts in lincs? Your profile says Notts. There’s a gas place in Worksop.

Thought I’d try something different this evening and bought an 8 pack of Hazy Jane: 2 normal, 2 gauva, 2 peach & 2 pineapple. This is the peach, jury’s still out

Does that ABV say 16%? 🤪

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Brew is now boiling. I always let the malt pipe stand a while on top of a stock pot after the sparge to catch the last drops off the grain. I sometimes throw this into the boil, sometimes not depending on the gravity. I’ve done the same tonight, and the litre or so of run off had a gravity of...

Didn’t know you could do that, thanks 👍🏻 I’ve never done them separately before either, I thought I’d try it this evening to see if it makes a difference

Oatmeal Stout Late evening brew, started at 7pm, it’s currently mashing. I’ve tweaked a previous recipe to suit ingredients I’ve got in already. 23l batch: 4kg crisp ale malt (last of the bag) 1kg Minch Pale malt (first of the bag) 500g porridge oats 500g Crystal 250 500g crisp chocolate...

I love a tin of cream of tomato soup with a good grind of black pepper and a generous squirt of sriracha.

Hi, I have been looking back at my recipes and brewdays and nearly all of my brews have been either pale Ale/IPA/Golden ale types or stouts. I fancy brewing something different (not sour or funky though), and maybe something English. I’ve had a look on Brewfather etc, and the choices are...