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cheers for heads up,usually just coming back in from garage with 1st pint as its starting :thumb:

Right, had cinnamon and a bit of ginger in a jars in vodka for 2 days, its just dawned on me that i neither washed or peeled ginger just grated some into one jar and put a small chunk int' other , now is this a prime candidate for infection or will vodka have killed owt off, gunna bottle in 2...

cheers grays, had a gander on t'web after your first post and now i'm gunna wait till ferment done then soak some cinnamon/maybe ginger/maybe clove/orange in vodka then chuck in[apparantly vodka/burbon draws out oils better due to being thinner than beer] ended up with 32L at 1044 , filled a...

cheers for replies just got back from t###0 with cinnamon sticks,cloves,ginger,oranges so should have it covered. Grays should i ferment out then just bang some infusions in and seal lid for a few days before i barrel/bottle. thinking somewhere along lines of 5.2k marris otter 250g crystal 150g...

Gonna do a christmassy type brew tmrw , i've got a jar of ground cinnamon could i get away with that or do i need sticks, also when's best time to add last 5 mins/flameout :hmm:

Hi BB, theres a guy with a brewing stall on mexbro' market my shmbo reckons he's there mon and fri , or there brewshop on balby rd going into doncaster

should be a winner that one pal ,just done all pale brew with very similar ns hop schedule apart from saf05 and 25g dry hop, only been in barrel 7 days but its well nice, i think 7 of my last 10 brews have had nelsons in em, kept this one simple and its tasting one of the best, cant see it...

whoa youve just jigged my memory, had a few pints in sheffield about 4 months ago , the brew was called Rapture but i couldnt remember the brewer but thats it magic rock, it was a dark red beer complex and well hoppy but ive not seen it since, i was pulling faces when my mate brought it back...

yeh Wez ive got plenty to go at :thumb: might go down battwave route to speed it up a bit :thumb:

planning on brewing tommorrow using some yeast i washed and stored in jars last week, trouble is i've got no spraymalt to make a starter with so was thinking of taking it out of fridge for a few hours and pitching direct ,is this a no no or does it just mean a longer lag time :wha:

I use square burco boiler not as big as your proposed one mines 400mm ,400mm , 350mm so its a bit squat but i still manage to fill it to brim pre boil circa 44L , only drawbacks for me is i seem to lose a lot during boil maybe to large surface area [started to knock stat down once rolling boil...

top thread ,go to top of the class, makes me want to brew somethin dark n strong

go for it Bob, seems like youve got everything covered, it took me till ag#5 before i could even explain what i was doing without running back to this website ,it looks like youre going about things the right way, best o' luck :thumb:

been using mine for around 2 years now also from h and g , only things to note are try to drape an extra blanket over it just to help it retain heat and i've just had to replace tap threads eventually went but its had some use so no complaints at all :thumb:

glass raised Wez ,thoughts with you and your family

that looks like just below doctors gate/top of lady clough of arty , i filled my water bottle up when id run out last week from a nearby stream if id known you could get ale from there id have made a detour :grin:

7 days in fv is usually ok for me especially with s-04 [used to leave it 5 days with no probs] fg was down to 1010 , gonna leave it another week then do a side by side test 22l went in barrell 5l in bottles

Cairngorm Tradewinds is a really nice beer [never had bottled version] had it at beer festivals before then had a week in scotland just after crimbo loacal bar had it on draught needless to say thats where i spent every night :drunk:

brewed this 4 week ago 4.75kg maris o 500g munich 250g carapils 40g ekg 90mins 20g ekg 15m 15g nelson s 0 45g nelson s 80c 25mins saf 04 27L @1044>1010 4.5% 1 week in fv @20c 1 week condition ever since first sample this has had an unpleasant flavour which i can only describe as some kind of...

hope change of venue dont spoil the atmosphere ,old place thomas rotherham college had a real sense of a proper night out moving from different areas of school with different regional ales seemed like you were moving from pub to pub much better than one great big hall, lets hope organisers keep...