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I have used Danstar Notty before and made a good beer. Bought S33 recently and not tried it - might be interesting to try it in a familiar brew to see how it turns out. Anybody got any thoughts on this?

For sale: £12 each or all 4 for 40 quid 4x Wilko Golden Ale kits - premium 2 can 40 pint kits bought in a rush before I got into the grainy side of brewing. I think they currently retail around £22.00 Expiry dates 3x May 2015 and 1x April 2015 so plenty of time left on them. Send me a pm if...

Made something similar recently and came third in a mini-competition - not bad for my 2nd ever AG brew. So I am having another go... 5kg MO 1kg Abbey 300g Dark Crystal 200g Oats with glucan rest etc 300g roast rye malt 200g Wheat malt mash @68 chinook 20g 60m citra 30g 60m citra 20g...

Wanted to get a brew on today. SWMBO just gently reminded me that I have no yeast, which could bugger the process. Can a pressure barrel be used as a no chill cube (assuming I let a little out via the tap to sterilise the innards as well). To avoid wasting beer in the tap-purging, could I...

Just a quickie - does anyone know how easy it is to clean a cafetiere after (ab)using it to make a hop infusion? I can't be buggered with dry hopping but a centennial hop infusion with a spot of sugar sounds like just the thing for priming my red rye ale. If, however, it renders the cafetiere...

Have recently brewed and bottled a pale ale using MO, smidgen of wheat malt and hopped with wai-iti and pacific jade hops. I only bottled it 9 days ago, so I shall assume the answer to this one will be "patience, Iago" but none of my other impatiently sampled beers have done this. It tastes...

Despite the bottle not sealing properly so being flat as a witch's tit, I can report that Agave doesn't seem to ferment terribly well, so leaves a notable residual sweetness. This may be of interest to people who are looking for something to get a sweet or medium sweet effect in ciders etc. Not...

I seem to have been distracted last time I was cleaning up, and accidentally left about 8 litres of warm water, yeast and trub in my PB for long enough that it smelled of actual raw, human sewage. This happens surprisingly rapidly, can't be much over a week. Anyhoo, I obviously tipped the...

I can't cool below 22c without getting an STC1000, so I was wondering if anyone had tried any of the yeasts which claim to be able to go up to higher temps, e.g. mangrove jack's workhorse? Can anyone recommend anything? Currently my beers have a faint solventy edge which I am inclined to blame...

Grain Bill: 4.25kg MO 250g Pale Wheat Malt Campden Tablet Hops: 60 mins --Pacific Jade 20g 12.5%aa 15 mins -- 30g each Pacific Jade & Wai-Iti 4.5%aa & Irish Moss Flameout -- Pacific Jade & Wai-Iti 20g each Dry Hop -- Wai-Iti 20g IBU’s: 53.8 Target OG 1.044 Brew Length 23L Yeast...

I was on the BIABrewer forum recently with a couple of my planned recipes, when a senior and experienced brewer told me Irish Moss really should go in at 5 minutes. Try as I might, I cannot find any evidence to back this up. Has anybody else heard of this? Would it make any difference? maybe...

Or am I about to forge a new path in hop knowledge?

Getting a few recipes planned in a row to save on postage. Your thoughts as ever are much appreciated. Grain Bill: 4kg MO 500g Pale Wheat Malt Hops: 60 mins --Pacific Jade 20g 12.5%aa & Campden Tablet 15 mins -- 30g each Pacific Jade & Wai-Iti 4.5%aa & Irish Moss Flameout -- Pacific Jade &...

My local makes a delicious rye beer which has proved popular with SWMBO, so I am going to try to clone it. I don't expect to get too close first time round, but I'd like to make a nice beer, even if it isn't perfectly what I am aiming for. They were kind enough to tell me the hops involved, and...

My FV was lovingly cleaned including the lid, but I forgot to sanitise the part of the outside of the FV that is actually inside the lid, right at the top. This means I now have small amounts of what may be dust but frankly looks suspiciously like mould growing between the rim of the FV and the...

Just cracked a bottle of this with swmbo. Funny stuff, and FULL of sloppy yeast lurking at the bottom, so if anyone else gets one, be aware that the yeast doesn't sit well at the bottom of the bottle. The flavours are all over the place -it's 6% abv btw. Initially, fruity nose, tropical, mango...

I have a brew in my fv which I pitched last weekend and has dropped to FG now of 1.010 for a couple of days. I also have a half pressure barrel of wort which I was just going to ferment in the PB. It occurred to me that I could learn about using yeast cakes and take the finished beer out of the...

Trying to recreate my second brew (while using up leftovers) which was a Woodforde's Wherry with extra dark crystal malt and roasted rye grains. It turned out like theakston's OP and I am running out rapidly. Grain Bill: 1075g Optic malt 500g Abbey malt 800g Medium Spray malt (= 1.2kg malt...

I have a few bits and bobs I am planning to ebay (nothing Beer-related, parcel shelves and a spare wheel) but I have no idea how much such things will be to post out. I know a lot of people here buy and sell heavy items fairly often so I thought I might be able to pick some of your brains. Has...

Just read this genius article by a guy in the Smithsonian magazine. I see no reason why we might not be able to instigate a similar activity. Kind of like a beer swap, but less organised (and in some ways, maybe more so...). http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/20 ... nkbeerhunt What are your...