Recent content by jonandtim

Actually now I come to think of it, the impossibility of finding a good pub and the prospect of a year on "bud," are one of the reasons why I haven't made any attempt to spend a year studying in America. Our student union building used to have a pub in it but they have changed it into a bar...

You need to give Tim and I some serious tips! We have a good selection of pub's Ale's on tap locally and our bar with over 50 varieties of quality bottled ale and ciders. And a damn good beer festival - (the hangover from the Perry was indescribable though.) As we are now utterly, utterly skint...

Cool stuff, can u give us some idea of the best suppliers of things like malt and hops etc. If we follow the advice of the other guys on the forum we'll need to get hold of some (and not pay a fortune in P&P.) Jon

We are two students at university in Cardiff, South Wales (the little Country next door to England for you "folks," in America. We'll update our personal profile now!

We also have a lager (i guess you "folks," accross the pond would call it European style "lager bier,") kit which we think we will now use as a test batch. Could we use the sugar with that? We want to make our own beer but the kits came with the equipment so we want to use them up and get...

We are using a kit called "Young's harvest bitter," which i don't think is complete, i believe it contains a hopped malt extract and a packet of yeast. It says to add a kilo of brewers sugar and water which from what we have read doesn't sound ideal! Jon

Should have said, we are making a british style bitter. Cheers, Jon and Tim

Hi, We have just bought some beer brewing equipment and it hasn't come with any instructions! We've found some on the net for our stuff so thats not too bad. But what we can't find is the appropriate amount of sugar to add to our beer. We're using a beer kit and making about 40 pints, but...