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- Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:19 pm
- Forum: Mead
- Topic: Planning - Spiced Cyser
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6571
Re: Planning - Spiced Cyser
Hi Mucky How is your brew going? I seem to have lots of nice apples in the garden so planning one myself. You have hinted towards a concern I also have with CML mead yeast - in my experience it doesn't actually attenuate very well even a plain mead with just 3lbs/gallon of honey in water, the same i...
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:57 pm
- Forum: Winemaking
- Topic: Blackberry wine ??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5682
Re: Blackberry wine ??
Usually such wine recipes will tell you to add water to make the total volume up to x L, rather than to add x L.
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:56 pm
- Forum: Other Alcoholic Brews
- Topic: Hoopèrs dandelion and burdock
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5356
Re: Hoopèrs dandelion and burdock
There is a recipe for something using dandelion and burdock in Andy Hamilton's Booze for Free. I'll check tonight. I think it uses the root of both plants.
And no idea how it compares to the Hoopers one.
And no idea how it compares to the Hoopers one.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:42 pm
- Forum: Mead
- Topic: My First try at Mead.......
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15801
Re: My First try at Mead.......
Thanks for sharing - I might give it a go then as early signs are for a monstrous blackberry crop here this year!
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: Mead
- Topic: My First try at Mead.......
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15801
Re: My First try at Mead.......
Hi Mucky,
Never tried it myself but Acton and Duncan's mead book advises against blackberry and elderberry meads due to their tannin content. They advocate pretty much everything else though!
If you're stuck for something to do with brambles I'd suggest creme de mure or a bramble wine.
Never tried it myself but Acton and Duncan's mead book advises against blackberry and elderberry meads due to their tannin content. They advocate pretty much everything else though!
If you're stuck for something to do with brambles I'd suggest creme de mure or a bramble wine.
- Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:04 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: AG#31 - Honey Ale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3366
Re: AG#31 - Honey Ale
Meant to also say good luck and let us know how it goes - a honey beer is on my to do list!
Got some rank smelling dandelion honey and I'm wondering if a beer could hide some of its aroma through dilution if nothing else!
Got some rank smelling dandelion honey and I'm wondering if a beer could hide some of its aroma through dilution if nothing else!
- Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:48 am
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: AG#31 - Honey Ale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3366
Re: AG#31 - Honey Ale
Hope it turns out well! Do you need to boil the honey to sterilise it? Or is it OK as is? Well Jim, that's the question that seems to fuel the debate about when to add the honey :D The honey that I am using in this trial brew is a decent quality supermarket one, so in my opinion this must have been...
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: Yeast
- Topic: Croossmyloof real ale yeast . 14 hours after pitch.22c
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1849
Re: Croossmyloof real ale yeast . 14 hours after pitch.22c
Yeah... see my post on page 2 of this: viewtopic.php?f=86&t=78758&start=15
I hope you end up with something more drinkable than I have. It's the first batch of beer I'm seriously considering ditching.
I hope you end up with something more drinkable than I have. It's the first batch of beer I'm seriously considering ditching.
- Thu May 24, 2018 10:20 pm
- Forum: Fermentation
- Topic: Crossmyloof yeast
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16246
Re: Crossmyloof yeast
Got a batch of Old Peculiar clone on the go at the moment using CML's Real Ale yeast. An odd criticism perhaps but I feel this yeast is unacceptably vigorous!! I expect a Belgian wit yeast to be leaping out of the fermenter (especially at wit fermentation temperatures with wheat in the grain bill) ...
- Thu May 24, 2018 10:11 pm
- Forum: Fermentation
- Topic: Crossmyloof yeast
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16246
Re: Crossmyloof yeast
Got a batch of Old Peculiar clone on the go at the moment using CML's Real Ale yeast. An odd criticism perhaps but I feel this yeast is unacceptably vigorous!! I expect a Belgian wit yeast to be leaping out of the fermenter (especially at wit fermentation temperatures with wheat in the grain bill) ...
- Wed May 02, 2018 9:49 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: AG#29 - Summer Ale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4161
Re: AG#29 - Summer Ale
Is that Greg Hughes' recipe? Really enjoyed that brew when I made it last year!
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:06 pm
- Forum: Dispensing
- Topic: Beer line
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2257
Re: Beer line
Smart!
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 11:14 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Going Pro opportunity
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5575
Re: Going Pro opportunity
This might be worth a read.. http://hardknott.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-catatonic-beer-industry.html M Very interesting and very much on my mind about taking the plunge! So it should. If you don't have your own outlet, or one as part of your plans, don't do it. It really is that simple. That's sober...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:30 am
- Forum: Fermentation
- Topic: Crossmyloof yeast
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16246
Re: Crossmyloof yeast
Got a batch of Old Peculiar clone on the go at the moment using CML's Real Ale yeast. An odd criticism perhaps but I feel this yeast is unacceptably vigorous!! I expect a Belgian wit yeast to be leaping out of the fermenter (especially at wit fermentation temperatures with wheat in the grain bill) b...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:41 am
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Elvis Juice!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21555
Re: Elvis Juice!
Managed to get on a shareholders' tour of the brewery quality labs this week. Asked about Elvis Juice - it is 'dosed' with an extract after filtration etc. but they insist that the majority of the flavour does come from peel added earlier. Almost as much peel as hops apparently. They are using gas c...