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• Posted in thread: Tropical Blond Ale on 05-15-2013 at 07:10 PM
  That's quite a lot of crystal malt, but I think that it's sweetness is overstated. If a beer
  has a cloying sweetness it's more likely to be attenuation or yeast rather than crystal malt.
  That said, I ...

• Posted in thread: IPA recipes on 05-06-2013 at 09:53 PM
  Check recipes for Thornbridge - Jaipur and Fullers - Bengal Lancer. Neither one is as bitter as
  American IPAs, and yet have good aroma and body. I'm yet to find somebody who doesn't like
  Jaipur!

• Posted in thread: Unmalted Spelt in Mash on 05-02-2013 at 06:04 PM
  Weyermann makes malted spelt, might be easier to use

• Posted in thread: Anyone brewed an IPA with EKG ? on 04-26-2013 at 11:01 PM
  I'm waiting for my oak aged English IPA to get ready. Added a load of goldings (4oz) at 15m and
  it was fairly noticeable. Finished of with Willamette. There's some good single hop very pale
  Goldings b...

• Posted in thread: No Hop Brewing on 04-26-2013 at 10:45 PM
  I used feverfew and blackcurrant leaves once. Not enough feverfew, but it did add some
  bitterness.

• Posted in thread: Nanobrewery..Road to failure on 04-26-2013 at 10:30 PM
  To the OP, have you considered contract brewing? That sort of gets you to the point where you
  have a product to sell and need to find a distributor.I'd consider this too. In the UK it's
  relatively sim...

• Posted in thread: New hops strands/types. How? on 04-26-2013 at 09:53 PM
  More than half the hops I get have seeds. That said, I almost only buy whole leaf as it's
  cheaper and there's more varieties available than pellets.

• Posted in thread: Cask Question - Will beer be okay? on 04-22-2013 at 07:34 PM
  Don't know, I only serve casks by gravity :o)

• Posted in thread: Ministry and beer on 04-21-2013 at 07:31 PM
  Most apple varieties in the UK are still grown for (hard) cider making. Of course, these have
  lost planted surface against desert and cooking apples, but there's still hundreds of varieties
  of cider a...

• Posted in thread: Too much caramunich for saison? on 04-19-2013 at 01:23 AM
  Probably not just beer, but tasty beer! :mug: