Recent content by kmarkstevens

Below is a clone from Machine House. Ron Pattinson called out "this is a good mild" when he did a mild talk last year (and his boys sank for than a few pints - they are big lads). Not completely traditional but it's really tasty. The recipe in the thread below is a combination of a published...

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If anyone has a amazon link to a specific hand pump, I would greatly appreciate it. I tried to do a cowboy set up with an RV pump, which had a really wierd reverse thread that I could never get to connect. A well carbonated keg would dispense a few pints from the pressure in the keg but that was...

Isn't a pint equivalent to an ox horn? Or have I been lied too (again)???

@Shenanigans Relax, don't worry and have a homebrew! West Yorkie is a pretty great and easy yeast and so is the equivalent WLP Essex Ale yeast. On the other hand, WLP037 Yorkshire Square yeast is the finicky one that totally kicked my ass. Made me realize that some strains are in the vault...

@McMullan so the key is the rouse the yorkshire yeast multiple times per 24 hour period. It's not about aeration, although the rousing aerates to a small degree. Do I have this correct? So, does this mean in theory on the homebrew scale, one can just gently stir the yeast say 3-4x/day to rouse...

For an even simpler Yorkshire Square cheat, could you simply aerate the wort of a few minutes a set number of times per day for the first 48-72 hours? Would this give something like the Yorkshire Square yeast enough oxygen? I'm not looking for perfection, but an easy way to get part way down...

I have managed to culture a bit of the Prize Old Ale. Gawd knows what's in that beast. I have fermenter with plastic liners, that kinda suck, but should keep the beasties from infesting the rest of my "Brewhaus". ;) Here's a photo with Erlenmeyer with say 2mm depth of recultured dregs. Stir...

I had two bottles of Ghost Ship this summer, from a bottle shop in Toronto. My palate really doesn't like most American C hops, which generally taste to me a combination of cat whiz, skunked and/or dank. I would have passed on getting the Ghost Ship had I actually read the label in the bottle...

No luck with the Stingo. But the Dark Star looks to be successful, and I'll take that as a win!!!

I've heard on the Interwebs that Adnams was/is a dual strain. That WLP025 is the "flavor" strain, and the other is "flocculant" strain is the Wyeast. I vaguely remember trying to reculture the WLP025 a few years ago, and it was really powdery. As in, I cold crashed the 2L Erlenmeyer flask with...

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Will do! Poured the bottle dregs in 500cc of ~1010 gravity. On the stir plate most of the time, but I do take it off for a few hours here and there to also aerate the Yorkshire Dingo dregs. 48 hours later Dark Star looked like this: Then added 750cc of 1030 gravity wort few hours ago, and it...

@schmurf Nice video. Appreciate you posting. I should have been more precise, i suppose. to clarify, what i meant was a Broadside clone recipe (or something that was in the "spirit" of or a "tribute" to Broadside). But I quite enjoyed your video and may need to visit Cornwall whenever i...

Big thanks to @Northern_Brewer, who has reasons to visit the Seattle area, for a very enjoyable afternoon yesterday sampling some great English beers he procured and then hand carried over to the local Machine House Brewery, which specializes in English cask ales. All were superlative brews...