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by raymondo
Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:46 pm
Forum: Commercial Brews
Topic: Torbay area breweries
Replies: 7
Views: 21002

Re: Torbay area breweries

Teign Cellars, Cider Bar, Maltings Taphouse - all in Newton Abbot. Regular service on No 12 bus - about 20 mins. Hope the suggestion was not too late.
by raymondo
Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:42 pm
Forum: Hops
Topic: Are my homegrown hops worth brewing with?
Replies: 17
Views: 16620

Re: Are my homegrown hops worth brewing with?

Goldings(Cobb type) and Northdown here in South Devon. Dried in airing cupboard and then frozen in one ounce vacuum packs. The amount of sticky lupulin is immense when compared to foil packed hops I have purchased.
by raymondo
Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:27 pm
Forum: Hops
Topic: Hop growing for 2007
Replies: 156
Views: 59010

Home grown hops

I've had a wide variety of hops growing on fences and up 3m poles for a number of years now. All the plants were from Deacons - quite expensive, but they go on for years and you can easily propogate from them. Fuggles - good early and heavy cropper Mathon - been growing this for about 10 years, heav...
by raymondo
Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:55 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Gordons Scotch/Xmas Ales
Replies: 0
Views: 1186

Gordons Scotch/Xmas Ales

First post - so hello everybody out there. I've been mashing beers for a good many years and can usually have a good stab at what is in most commercial beers regarding hops and grains. Together with the CAMRA books, I can make a fair approximation of many UK styles of beers, But not the pair of Gord...