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If you live near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire or can get there and you need stackable crates please let me know - I have about 10-12 to give away for FREE. Best for slimmer bottles like Fullers or Ringwood etc rather than the fatter ones

Has anyone done the Diploma they offer? I have done the Cert and thought maybe I need to work in a commercial brewery to make total sense of the Diploma...is that true?

I walked past a poster yesterday for Madri with the slogan of something like the spirit or soul of Madrid…except it is as Spanish as Yorkshire pudding or whippets…invented, marketed and made by Coors in Yorkshire. What a load of nonsense but very clever marketing.

I am doing a Systems Thinking course and some of my fellow students are interested in and/or proponents of the Anti-Work movement/idea. This is a rejection of the "capitalist" system that forces people to work to earn enough to eat so that you can go to work. It does seem to be mainly younger...

I may have lost mine.

Has anyone brewed with any of these hops? (Moutere, Vista and Eureka!) - I like to try out new hops and saw these in my last purchase and bought them. Any suggestions on style of beer too if you have any ideas. Thanks!

Last night a group of us bought and drank the following beers from Tescos (other supermarkets are available). Salt - Huckaback, Salt - Denim, Northern Monk - Faith, Northern Monk - Death Star2 and Vocation Imperial Banana Stout. I don't know if anyone has tried these but I have to say the latter...

Looks like the dead hand of the mega breweries has fallen onto the London Field Brewery. Having taken over (merged? thats like a marriage between an Ent and a hobbit) with Marstons, Carlsberg Marstons have closed the London Fields Brewery and are looking for a buyer. I get why these factory ship...

I brewed this as part of my historic beer recipes project and I have to say its very nice. Very Simple Recipe: 3.5kg Golden Promise 1.9kg Flaked Barley Fuggles 23g @ 75mins Fuggles 14 @ 30mins EKG 8g Dry Hop White labs 028 Edinburgh Ale Yeast 67c Mash, Mash out 75c (10 Mins) Flavour is like...

This is a great read https://www.amazon.co.uk/Encircling-Hop-History-Hops-Brewing/dp/1872489036 Wife bought it for me for my birthday and as I grow hops as well as brew I was interested in the history of hops growing and drying etc. Really good read centering on one farm in Kent from the 1700s...

Hi all Maybe there is already a thread on this and if so please let me know. I am embarking on brewing some vintage beers, some from the rather excellent Ron Pattison's website (shutupaboutbarclayperkins) (and yes I have also bought a book from there (Edwardian Beers or something like that))...

Hi all. Using these in a simple brew to see what they bring (4kg Golden Promise, 300g Vienna and 250g Carapils). I can't find much on their parentage but the smell reminds me of (in no particular order) mild Citra, EKG and a noble hop so would love to know where they came from but it seems the...

Hi all. I have been all grain brewing for years now, first BIAB and then with the GrainFather and love it as it gives me scope to really play around with hops, yeast and malt etc. When I was kit brewing (and I made loads) I never got into doing the top of the range ones like Bulldog etc as they...

a few years ago my wife bought me three First Gold dwarf hop plants for my birthday and as with everything else gardening wise I neglected them for a couple of years and then put them in an area of my garden called “Honey’s Garden” and forgot about them. This year my wife noticed that they were...

Not sure if this is the best place for this but I thought it might be worth noting what Breweries you have visited and anything that you learnt from them. We have toured Adnams, Bateman's, Camden, St Peters and this week went to Elgoods. At Elgoods they had these Copper cooling "trays" which I...

158th Brew Golden Jester 22nd June 2018. 4kg of Maris Otter, 300g of Carapils and 200g of Red Rye Crystal Malt. Hops 15g Chinook at 15m, 10 of centennial and 10 of Jester at 15, the same at 5 and then 20g At hop stand. Pitched US05. Colour at pitch is darkish orange rather than the red I was...

159th Brew. 29/06/18. Blue Giant. 4kg Maris Otter and 300g of Carapils. 20g of Southern Cross at boil, 10g Southern Cross and 10g Belma at 15, same again at 5 and 20g of Belma at the hopstand. I may have mixed this up so we either have 20g mixed at 15 or 20g of Belma and the mixed bag at...

So a new advert from the pee factory for their Bud Light - a disgusting no point beverage that sullies the name of Beer. Can you imagine people even in the Medieval past wanting to drink that rubbish?

This is an "IPA" using 4kg MO, 500g Carared and 300g of torrified wheat. The idea was to get a kind of reddish beer. The hops were 22g of Chinook at boil, 13g of Rakau at 15g and 20g Rakau for a 20 min hop stand. Pitched US05 OG is 1056 so this will be 6% if it gets down to 1010. Colour at...

147th 10/01/18 Official title D (as in D&T). 4kg Maris Otter extra light, 500G Rye Malt, 250g Carapils. Hops 20g Centennial (10%) at start of boil, 20g Jarrylo (13.3%) at 15 and then 20G Jarrylo and 20G Amarillo hops at flame out. Yeast for this one is US05 and the OG is 1054 so we will be look...