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I'm wanting to do an 80/- brew in the new year and wondered if anyone had tried the Greg Hughes 80/- recipe, and if so what the result was like?? 5 gall Pale Malt 4.6kg (I'd use Golden Promise) Caramunich 0.3kg Crystal 0.2kg Carafa 3 0.08kg Mash at 70 C (I'd normally do 69C) Goldings 27g...

I've attempted a clone (or near clone) of Fullers Honeydew which, although just finished carbonating shows great promise. Thought I'd share the recipe. There is enough honey to make it 'just noticeable' like in the Fullers. Got the quantity of honey to add from a youtube video of some folks...

Finally got round to my planned 100% RedX brewday... 6kg BestMaltz RedX 60 min mash at 66 C 12grms Target at 60min 15 grms Challenger at 60min 20grms Northdown at 10min 20 grms EKG at 0 min. Est IBUs 30. Batch size 22.7ltrs. OG 1.058 (target was 1.060) Yeast WLP028 harvested from...

Anyone tried these?? Am planning a pale ale with them at the weekend using magnum for bittering and Armadillo later in the boil and flame out. Meant to be 'Tangerine / California Clementine with hints of honey dew melons. AA= 5.9% Beta = 3.2%' from Homebrew Company.

My next brew is Vanilla Porter based loosely on the Graham Wheeler Fullers recipe with some chateau cafe light caramel malt (and vanilla pods post fermentation) in addition. I want this to turn out very smooth with layers of chocolate, coffee and vanilla flavours but without any harsh...

Excellent bit of kit... only downside is the cost, though at just over £300 its a lot cheaper than some other stainless conicals...overall 6 out of 5 Good Things: -Adjustable racking arm -Thermowell - surprise yourselve to see temp it's actually fermenting at..probably 3-4 deg c higher...

Just got today's brew on (Galaxy Golden Ale) and for the first time this season (I brew October to April) I hit my gravity targets :party: I'm normally out by 5-10 points. The only difference this time was that I was using crushed malt from the Homebrew Company, and it was crushed noticeably...

Tested my home made immersion chiller for first time today and it worked great....(made from 10metres 10mm copper pipe from wickes for £21- see brupaks chiller thread). Chilling time was down from 50 minutes previously to about 35-40minutes, and it sits nicely in the boiler, with hose...

I've been thinking to brewing this for some time but didn't know how much honey they added to get that 'hint' of honey. Well luckily that bloke that did the video of harvesting fullers yeast during a brewery tour, also did one where the brewers said how much honey went into the brew... 1200kg...

Am about to order ingredients for my next brew...a Galaxy Golden Ale. I want to get a proper golden colour...like you get in Black Sheep's Golden Sheep Ale, or St Peters Golden ale. Anyone know how they get that extra intensity gold colour???

I had major leakage problems yesterday with the brupaks immersion chiller (that I reviewed the other day) at the hose connection so got 10metres microbore 10mm copper pipe at Wickes for �£21 and spent 15 minutes bending it using a saucepan as a former. The ends that connect to the...

Had my Fullers ESB clone brewday yesterday, using WLP002 yeast. Pitched yeast at 19.5 C, and put in spare room which was at 18 C. By this morning (18 hrs in) it was bubbling away nicely but due to exotherminc nature of fermentation , despite the room being at 17.4, the brew was at 20.2 C...

This is still available in certain outlets (see it on e-bay). It works fine but they scrimped on the length of the copper tubing so hoses connect to copper tube inside the boil kettle sometimes partially immersed in the wort. I had problems with leakage around the connections meaning leaking...

Have had it just over a year..use it as a hot liquor tank and for the boil. Nice piece of kit, has been reliable and is easy to clean. Only issue is that its only 27ltrs..to the brim, so a bit a small for full 23ltr brew where the pre boil volume might be 27ltrs or so ...but would be ideal if...

Am just growing up some WLP002 to split into 2 lots, ahead of brewing a Fullers ESB clone in the next week or so. I know its defined as high flocculation but this is mega high...photo is after vigorous swirling. Is there any issue with is floccing out too quickly before the fermentation is...

Last year I brewed using standard chocolate malt , black malt and roasted barley for my Porters and Scotch Ales. This year I am thinking of swapping the chocolate malt for Carafa Special Type1 and the black malt for Carafa Special Type 2 or 3 in order to benefit from the claimed smoother flavour...

Has anyone used this??..if so how did you get on?? I'm currently brewing and all grain Porter ..SG 1.060, and I used 2 packs of Newcastle, re-hydrated, and the fermentation took off like a rocket after 3 or 4 hours and continued like that for one and a half days then just died...with gravity at...