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Just found this great article on the Mad Fermentationist blog, well worth a read if you haven't seen it and are interested in the process of creating beer recipes. http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2015/11/design-beer-recipe-in-10-steps.html

I had a first taste of these hops last night in a Single hop beer by the Rooster brewery simply called Jester. These hops are described by the industry thus.... "Jester® has an intense, punchy aroma of new world proportions, with flavour notes of Grapefruit and tropical fruits." Now I think...

Made this back in November and just got one bottle left now - it's a great lowish ABV, very pale ale with fresh zingy NZ hops. Drinks really well, light and refreshing. I split the batch and fermented half with WLP006 Bedford Ale and half with Wyeast 1469, Yorkshire ale. I think I prefer the...

If you are a regular forager in the undergrowth for beer ingredients, perhaps we can have a thread in which people share the knowledge of wild beer ingredients. Personally, I have never used any foraged ingredients, but I am interested in giving some a try. The likes of spruce tips, heather...

We can check out our mods' trash efficiency here. :thumb:

In order of importance... http://beerandwinejournal.com/10-better-1/ http://beerandwinejournal.com/10-part-2/ Cleaning is straight in at number 1, ahead of sanitation, fresh ingredients and fermentation temperature! Hitting the right mash PH sneaks in at number 10.

Who has used this yeast and what has your opinion been? I've avoided it because it's cheap and gets mostly poor reviews, but my Chinook pale ale used it for the first time and it's really surprised me. I've loved the beer, nice blend of US and UK hops and lovely yeast flavours. Great mouthfeel...

Firstly. Huge kudos to Geterbrewed.com! My first order from them arrived today and I went into panic cos things were not as I wanted them to be! The good stuff was the arrival of a great bench capper for about £18 (I've been joyfully capping empty bottles :whistle: ) and a 500ml Erlenmeyer...

Just found this, looks handy... http://www.brewunited.com/yeast_database.php

Got an email from Beersmith containing an interview with Dan Morey, the American brewer who created the Morey equation for estimating beer colour. This was an interesting answer: Beer brewing has changed a lot since you and I started brewing beer. What advice would you have for today's...

I've had a couple of bottles of this now and it's really good, and a nice burnished golden colour. Classed it as an IPA cos of the bitterness. The Chinook gives it a good solid bittering but not over-powering, and then there';s the woody, spicy floral English hops present. You could sub in a...

I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast which included some muesli base mix, which I bought from the Unicorn Grocery in Chorlton, Manchester, a place where nowadays the children have names like Amethyst and Benedict. And people knit their own muesli. I moved out of Chorlton to old Trafford about 12...

Rather than carry on disrupting the Newcastle Brown thread, I'll stick my attempt at a recipe for Dark Island in this new thread. the brewery website tells us the ingredients: A classic Scottish dark ale with chocolate and roasted malt flavours. Brewed with Pale Ale, Crystal, Chocolate and...

Interesting article here about the effects that beers of different strengths have on us, for example the amount of difference between a 4% and a 5% beer. And the speed we drink at, obviously! Based on the typical time it takes our bodies to process alcohol...

The JBK forum has organised a brew-along for this weekend to brew an ESB to a recipe that was developed by the forum members, I had a tiny bit of input. If anyone is brewing this weekend maybe you could join in and brew this recipe (feel free to tweak according to what you have in stock etc)...

Just put a mash on for an evening small batch brew. Bloody work phone calls throughout milling and mashing in, messed with my mash temperature, which I've now just about sorted. I'm making a hoppy, bitter pale ale with Chinook and some English hops. I added the first hop addition to the kettle...

I like the look of their craft a grain system. Basically choose how much you want of each grain, hop, yeast etc. So you can buy as much of each grain and hop you want to the nearest gram. I just hope they pack each grain separately? If so, my next order is likely to be from them. Plan my brews...

This is a variation on Fullers London porter that I made last December and was bloody good. The changes were mainly about using stuff I had but it really worked: Batch Size (L): 10.0 Original Gravity (OG): 1.054 Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.48 %...

Found this slideshow which might have some ideas for grain brewers: http://londonamateurbrewers.co.uk/2014/07/ghetto-brewing/

I've been doing some further reading about water treatment, which always leaves me in a state of some confusion, partly due to my utterly non scientific brain and partly the way stuff is presented, scientific types being such hopeless communicators! And if I enter the same data into different...