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I do have one piece of advice for all us newbies out there.. Be scrupulous in the cleaning of your storage vessels. I often bottle half a dozen bottles from my brews and have never had a bad bottle but there has been occasion that the barrel contents have not been so nice.. I had to pour a barrel of Wheat beer away and I am sure it was down to a barrel that had not been properly cleaned. Be warned.
I shall be asking more questions as I get further into this homebrew malarkey for certain, sure.
Thanks for being here guys
I`ll save all my many questions for the relevant places. Having looked through the site already some have been answered so many more await.
Peat.
Just got a Youngs definitive Lager for Christmas and have just kitted up! So looking forward to seeing how this turns out!
Dean.
> Hello. Looks like I'm the first to post in a while. Hope this forum is still active?
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> Ey up! I'm a new starter today too. Just bought myself a Woodfordes Norfolk Nog micro brewery kit, I'm hoping it'll turn up before Friday this week as I've got a long weekend to get my head around it and possibly to just sit there staring at the fermenter wishing it was ready
Thanks mate. I'm just in the process of getting some bottles together! Getting there!
Good luck with yours, hope it turns out well!
Ade from Wolverhampton, originally from mid Staffordshire though so I don't have the accent (so far anyway. lol).
I started my brewing journey many years ago, making mead with kit bought from the high street that was as rough as you can get as I didn't know about degassing etc back then. Before taking a break for many years. We returned to the hobby (my wife and I) last year, when I was given a huge quantity of raspberries from my mother's garden, and decided to make raspberry melomel with them (came into it's own about a month ago, absolutely delicious!). Then we went blackberry picking locally and made blackberry melomel with them (still bulk conditioning). Then in October last year we took the plunge and had a go at brewing beer from kits.
My wife liked the kit brew, but I just didn't get on with it. So we bought a mash tun/boiler combi, and made the transition to BIAB all grain brewing. Number 7 (an ordinary bitter) is currently sat waiting to be racked to second vessel to clear, number 6 (a fuggles hopped British golden ale) is sat in secondary waiting for the PET bottles that just this minute arrived. HBO ones, as they do the job very nicely, and are an excellent price. I also have a HBO pressure barrel, does lovely job but has been stuck for a while now holding a rather unpleasant kit beer that my wife likes with lemonade in it... lol The beer is lovely and smooth, but far too high in alcohol (you can probably guess who made the kit... lol) for our tastes.
Our favourite style of beer though has to be a nice Saison, the best of which was my last one, a mosaic hopped (including a dry hopping) Saison made with nearly a whole jar of Scottish heather honey.
Cheers!
Just got back into homebrew after a few years. I’m currently making a Winebuddy Merlot kit & it’s coming along nicely.
I’ve bought a “Tilt” hydrometer & it’s fantastic. No more trying get a sample & using a manual hydrometer 😀
- Steve
Cheers
Steve
Ps: I could never do it without the Tilt now. Getting accurate gravity & temperature readings so easily is brilliant!
I shall do the next bit tomorrow 😀
I have been brewing beer since I was 18. I began making wine in my thirties when I had a bigger place with a cellar. My first three kits (all Geordie Lager) were basically failures although just about drinkable but rather disheartening so I had one final throw of the dice and tried the Geordie Bitter kit which worked fine first attempt. Hope this helps anybody else finding themself in a similar predicament.
This was the beginning of a life long learning curve and I gradually developed the confidence to experiment with different levels of yeast, sugar and water on various kits. I tend to go about half way between 30 & 40 pint recipes (34-36). My only mistakes since have been overdoing it with the priming sugar on a few occasions although at the time I have always thought I was being accurate so tend to add slightly less than the maximum advised in these days. I don't like it too gassy so no problem there. I keep my brewing quite basic these days given I now live in a flat. Boy do I miss that cellar!
I will leave it there for now save to say that a few of my favourite kits disappeared off the shelves over the years. My best kits have been: Boots Dry Irish Stout; Boots White Cider (both sadly long since gone as they also made an immense white feather when combined!); Edme Stout (no longer available anywhere near me); Geordie - Scottish Export, Yorkshire bitter & Mild; Caxton Real Ale (my No1); Young's - Pilsner Lager, (? Title) Cider; John Bull - Country Cider. Wine: CWE 6 bottle kits - Black Cherry; Elderflower; Ginger (all awesome) + various reds & whites I can't remember titles of nor seen any of this brand for over 10 years; Brew buddy Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay 30 bottle kits.
Ones to avoid like the plague mentioning no names directly: own brand high street retailers red wine and dark berry cider both extremely pale and being 'Water' flavour - oh and they weren't significantly cheaper either - I put it down to weak concentrate (and that was after reducing the water content in both instances too) as I have seen reviews suggesting doubling these and getting decent results etc. Still learning
New member here. Carrying out my very first brew as we speak. A Young’s American IPA.
Had a bit of a panic on Saturday when lots of froth started coming through the airlock but seems to have settled down now and quite happily bubbling and fermenting away.
Hopefully all goes well and I’ll have a cracking IPA in a month or so!! Cheers.
I have just re started my home brew adventure. Made an aipa which wasn’t bad. Have just bottled 40 pints of On the Rocks Spiced Apple Cider and have a Mangrove Jacks Roasted Stout on order.
Laurie.