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Check out the Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. My favorite pub in London - only real ales and ciders from independent brewers. Cash only though, and it's small, so tends to be packed on weekends..

I tried some of brooklynkitchen's batch. Yum. This is definitely on the "to brew" list.

thanks, that makes sense.

So this link came up at the top of homebrewtalk. I was intrigued by the idea of a slightly cheaper carboy with free shipping. However, the description says "The Plastic 6 Gallon Carboy is ideal for a secondary fermentations and bulk storage of wine or beer. It`s made of clear PET plastic, the...

The first fail was idiocy, true, but the second fail was FOR SCIENCE! The real comedy of this situation is that I ordered kegs last week. I'm going to blame this mishap on the vengeful bottling gods punishing my wayward ways.

PS: she laughed her head off when I explained why the kitchen smelled like beer. For the record, she is incredibly, incredibly tolerant.

Did some further testing - ended up pretty much covered in beer, but I'm mopping the kitchen anyway. I had a second beer from that batch also in the fridge. I removed the cap swiftly from that one. Immediately started foaming over, so I popped my thumb over the top and bled off pressure a bit at...

So I had a real "eureka!" moment tonight. The special lady is out with some coworkers having a beverage, and i'm at home with the kid. He and I were in the kitchen - was making dinner, he was drinking some milk. I finished up the pasta and sauce, and thought to myself, "I think i'll have a...

Having smelled/tasted fermenting garbanzos before, I would say that the thought of drinking that fluid does not appeal to me. Also, based on that experience, i would suspect that the flavor might be really sour.

Let's see, is there an Oblique Strategies card that applies here? "Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do" Yep, you could say that's relevant to extract brewing. more Strategies here

Yes. I made myself finish it, just to teach me a lesson. And I haven't forgotten. Blecchhh.

Thanks for this excellent writeup. Instructions are well written and helpful, and the photos made everything clear to this novice. I washed the yeast from my first batch - Scottish 60 shilling, using a Wyeast British Ale 1098 - and pitched it into the second - a slightly modified Cream Ale...