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good evening everyone today i had the urge to brew completely unprepared. It's 630pm and i just bleached stuff to ferment in waiting for mrs KTG to finish with the cooker what little plans i have involve one single malt and single hop batch split into three then two different yeasts...

has anyone put elderflower wine kit into beer to ferment are there any pro's or con's to it would it need any extra finning what should i do about hopping ? what would scooby doo? KTG

hello people long time not post righto i have recently brewed what i hoped would be a coffee stout but it came out with a light mouth feel more like an old ale/porter and a strong alcohol after taste other than that it was fantastic and realy had great coffee flavour and roast malt tones if...

16 pints of turbo vimto for the lady 44 pints of cascade apa 35 pints of munton's winter warmer messed up with cinnamon allspice and orange 4 bottles of apa with a clove dropped in 25 bottles apa one busy afternoon

please any advice greatfuly received and faithfuly applied 6.0kg pale malt 250g crystal 80g chocolate malt goldings fuggles hops basic 8% strength beer i hope and about 5 gallons worth i would like to add spices like cinnamon orange extract cloves a touch of allspice and rasins and peel but...

right thats it i'm done with feeling sorry for myself it's time to get the brewing back on track a good clean and sterilise this weekend then next week brewday wish you all well ktg t.b.c

i have a batch that looks cloudy and smell's and tastes like a clown (a bit funny) all gear was sterilised washed and fresh i did not skimp on the boil time and cooled it quickly (chiller was washed and went in for last 20 mins to sterilise) buckets and syphon all clean also going down the...

mission: brew beer for summer light crisp refreshing not too strong tho agent: Kermit log: one of my favorite brews is arundel sussex gold 4.2% fuggles cascade hop's i have no recolection of when the hop's came into my possession but i have them and all the time i have breath in my...

this weekend i'll be making black aaron a rip off of black adder more to follow many thank's to dan dan for the grain bill n hops recipe i shall also for the first time be trying water treatment to help me clear the beer after fermenting

the problem is i have not pitched any yeast because i have not put the wort in to the FV yet the only reason for this mis management of orders is i have not boiled what i have yet to mash and i have still left out the hop's all because the rugby is on and the GF got all mushy for some reason...

This weekend we at Buddy's Brewery hashed together a bit of a recipe a little number we are calling Goldie Lookin Pint 4.5 Kg Pale Malt 100 g Amber Malt 200 g Torrified Wheat 200 g Flaked Barley 300 g Light Brown Sugar 15 g Irish Moss 60 g Golding's 60 g Northern Brewer 90 minutes...

Bad new's is no more stout :( Good new's is barrel ready for filling with more beer :P

today my bro and me started on the Mob Hoglin recipe from the legendary Corby Brewer we scaled up the brew by 50% wich got close to the limit of mine boiler altho i realy like the idea of more beer same effort so armed with plenty of tea and a few other bitsthe brewing commenced all the...

i am a huge fan of banana beer and i have not a clue how when or where they go into the brew so............. i am going to add 1kg of ripe bananas to a simple recipe for 45 mins of boil left then 500g for the last ten mins and treat them like hops with a few hops i should have lurking around...

my beloved mrs ktg is turning the ripe old age of ---CENSORED--- on the 22 01 10 and then again 22 01 11 this time it's the big 30 so ktg is making pomagne to celebrate and i'd love to hear from anyone with tip's or advice i am going to start the fruit must this week all the best ktg Bramley...

I, Kermit the Grog, have done it finally (and this time i lasted more than 17 thrusts) 3 kg of pale malt 75g ???????? hop's to bitter 15g golding's aroma hop's My best and only mash tun with copper bit's drilled out by me last night instead of partying boiler with more plumbing me taking...

is the 2.5 per kg water grain ratio a minimum or maximum or most efficient amount im doing a grain brew this weekend all gear ready to go is it ok to mash with more liquor ( i love this terminology ) then sparge less i'm fly sparging i think ktg

is alluminium stock pot ok to boil wort ? does it taste in the finished beer?

My lovely other half got me a flask to take to work thats the tea sorted i asked if i could get a small cool box and food flask soup n sarnies safe honey? yes dear. This one comes with a large cool box! that's a bargain she says :grin: that is a bargain my sweet and so handy to...

is this the place to ask if anyone knows of a mauldons silver or black adder clone i'd love to try them for ma first ag brew i'm assembling stuff at the mo (tun n boiler type stuff ) at the mo i'm no gear no idea ktg