Jim's Beer Kit

Thanks for the reply Ed, interesting that the same beer differs from pub to pub due to some tweaking.

Not unless you use grapes. Most UK fruit does not contain enough natural sugar or juice so country wine have water and sugar added. As I said above, so much fruit would be needed to get the sugar level up, it would affect (ruin?) the flavour. I'm still wondering if an experiment was carried out by ...

When I was about 18 (ahem), I used to occasionally drink in the New Inn, Littlehampton, and I remember they had a beer called 'Old Fart' by Robertson's Brewery (not to be confused with Robinson's). Being a guest beer, it was only there for a short time. I found out one night where it got its name fr...

Was a no sugar fruit wine recipe ever tried?

IPA wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:20 am

Men wearing ties ! Aah yes I remember it well

I wonder if anywhere in Ireland still serves a pint of 'plain', with the double pour?

I very much doubt the barperson pouring it would be wearing a tie these days, regardless of gender!

guypettigrew wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:48 pm

Wonderful. And took me to loads of other crazy videos with escaping beer! Thanks.

Guy

I found myself down that rabbit hole last night!

I finally got round to brewing this a couple of days ago, it's bubbling away and smelling pretty good! I took out the 30 minute Northdown additon and I only had 30g of Challenger left (must have been sloppy with my record keeping!) which took the bitterness down to 45 IBUs. I'm unconvinved I could t...

I haven't used Minstrel, just looked them up and they sound like they'll be a good choice

A very interesting video, thanks for sharing.

I need to get a bitter on the go soon! What other hops have you got in mind, Rookie?

Cool, glad you got it sorted Guy!

I use Beersmith - https://beersmith.com/download-beersmith/

I've just tried it in Vista and XP and it looks ok