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Anyone else used this strain? I love a good sour beer, and have used a number of the other White Labs strains over the years to make some really good sour beers, fruity, tart, zesty, dry. However, this one smells and tastes exactly like soured milk, to the point that it's undrinkable. I used my...

Perhaps a strange one, and I haven't found a solution. My wife likes both cider and seltzer, I brew both for her and keep them in separate kegs in the keezer. Sometimes she likes cider, sometimes seltzer, sometimes a mixture of both... I only have three taps at present, but four kegs. The easy...

Last brewed a wheat beer back in 2013, and I remember it being a riot of cloves and bananas, as I'd used MJ M20, but it was quite lacking in body. Recently gave a proper wheat beer another go, but this time I was intending to add 3kg of mixed berries to the secondary to create a fruit wheat...

You know what they say about drinking whilst brewing? Well, last night I brewed a Chocolate Cherry Stout, with cocoa powder & cherries in the boil, all going marvellously whilst enjoying the remnants of my keg of strawberry sour beer. *Hic* However, by the time I had chilled the wort to...

For anyone in Edinburgh, Fife or Central Scotland, there is a company called Russell Gas who have depots in Edinburgh, Stirling & Larbert. They stock food grade CO2 in 3kg, 6kg or 24kg sizes. Picked a 6kg one up from Edinburgh at lunchtime today for £47.11 all-in, which included a fill of gas at...

I have been steadily collecting glass bottles for the last couple of years, but have now moved on to King Kegs and have decided not to bother with bottling any more. Most bottles are clean and de-labeled, but there are perhaps 20 needing labels removed and a good clean. Come with two bottle...

Evening all, Decided recently following posts by others, to do a few experimental small brews, a couple of demijohns, that sort of thing. This is my first brew from scratch unsing Brewmate, so nothing too complex. Just received a pre-Christmas order of grain and hops, so a wide choice of what...

Followed my favourite Guinness clone recipe gleaned on here, been requested to make a stout for Christmas holidays. Brewed it two weeks ago, bit late putting the thread up, so should be bottled this weekend, and in vaguely drinkable condition for Christmas-ish. Nothing special to make it a...

Brewed a Lia Fail clone on Friday, as per the recipe in this thread. Mashed out perfectly well at 65C for 90 minutes, but following the sparge and boiling up, my element refused to take it over 75C - kept tripping out on thermal overload. A quick bit of head scratching concluded that it must...

Tried my first brew last night from scratch, having only made kits before. Used a fairly simple recipe from a book I was given for birthday, but scaled back a bit to make 8 litres instead of 20, as I don't yet have a brew pot large enough to allow it. Recipe was something like: 400g flaked...

As I'm sitting with a glass of the Polish rasperry wine, brewed out to 8%, I thought I'd ask how others get on with the morning after? I've brewed about 20 gallons of various wines now, all good or at least reasonably palatable, but I find they give me stinking hangovers. Strengths range from 8%...

Hello all, New member from Glenrothes in Fife. I was recently gifted four demijohns by a friend who was throwing them out, seemed a shame to waste them so I took them in. Always taken an interest in brewing and wine making, and appreciated the ways of the art, but had never really considered...