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I've come to rather enjoy Marstons EPA at the pub local to a friend's house. I fancy kicking off (rather belatedly!) 2011's brewing with an AG brew of something similar. I've no idea where to start recipe wise (my inexperience prevents me from even trying to guestimate types of hops it might...

After hold ups for various reasons, I finally managed to get my brewery into action yesterday. I'd settled on a Boddingtons clone recipe for the launch beer, as that's a beer I often resort to, and it's my father's beer of choice too. I found the recipe on another forum (here) through Google...

So far this weekend, I have manufactured: 1: A mash tun from an Asda coolbox (though it really could do with some extra insulation yet) 2: A HLT from a fermenting bucket and a Tesco kettle element. Just tested it half full and it seems to work great. :) Coming up on the list of things to do...

Finally bought myself another budget keg last week, so I decided it was time to launch brew no. 2. Seemed to go much easier and quicker than the first brew; must have been more confident and not quite as overly cautious this time. :lol: Close call at the end when the dog burst in and decided...

A bit insignificant compared to some of the shiny brew porn some of you produce, but a guy has to start somewhere, right? Think I got everything done that needed doing; it's now sat in the spare room in the FV. It's started with a gravity about 1.040, so all I've got to do now is wait and see...