Finally posting something after a year or two of lurking - mainly to thank folks on this forum for being so generous with their skills and experience.
I am now 45 brews in and (more or less) able to brew the beers that I want. I prefer dark, old fashioned beers and have been trying to brew reliably a malty flavoursome beer, something like a dark mild or a porter, not very hoppy, between 3.4% and 4.2%, that goes well with food and a pipe. So I have been experimenting with chocolate malt, brown malt, munich etc and finally I have come up with a sort of a style in the volumes needed! I use kits plus DME and a mini mash, or LME instead of a kit). I’ve done some AG brews but I’m on a stove top and find larger quantities of grain and liquor awkward.
Apart from beer and pipe smoking, I’m into curing and smoking fish, meats, cheeses etc.
I am now 45 brews in and (more or less) able to brew the beers that I want. I prefer dark, old fashioned beers and have been trying to brew reliably a malty flavoursome beer, something like a dark mild or a porter, not very hoppy, between 3.4% and 4.2%, that goes well with food and a pipe. So I have been experimenting with chocolate malt, brown malt, munich etc and finally I have come up with a sort of a style in the volumes needed! I use kits plus DME and a mini mash, or LME instead of a kit). I’ve done some AG brews but I’m on a stove top and find larger quantities of grain and liquor awkward.
Apart from beer and pipe smoking, I’m into curing and smoking fish, meats, cheeses etc.
