Recent content by onerainmaker

That's the plan... ...do you think someone a few hundred years ago misheard something? :o

For some godforsaken reason, people choose to "eat" it neat, on a slice of bread or something. Health benefits, they say. But then....that's why I drink beer :mug:

Hello all... I've started a new job working for a herbal remedies place, and one of the things they produce is malt - straight up, or with flavourings and other things also. The question is - is it usable in homebrew? It's free for staff, so as my motto is 'owt for nowt' (thanks northern...

I'm in!

I'm in

I'm doing it the other way round and seeing what effect the DME has - started with a mix of ELDME & LDME, and then trying the (virtually) same recipe with amber DME. I'm doing IPA too, cos I love the flavour. Can I point you in the direction of Bramling Cross for finishing hops, I've used...

Decided to go a bit left field: leaving it in the keg, and as the whitecurrants didn't give a nice citrus tang, rather just a sour tang, I've added a bit more sugar and some blackcurrants. I'll drink direct from the keg as 'draft' beer. Errrm, could be interesting. Or undrinkable*! *...

Yes, I was thinking that. It's still in the bottling keg, so I may just leave in the keg and drink direct. Still, won't need recarbonating for a while, I presume?!!! Sterilised and rinsed all the blinkin' bottles too.

Ok, so I'm a noooob. :o Split my APA into 2 halves, bottled the first half straight off with proper priming, and put the other half to secondary with some whitecurrants 'just to see what happens'. However, just decanted the secondary into my bottle dispensing keg )I use a keg because it's...

DonMagee, you lovely man :mug: In this link: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/home-brew-taste-367422/index2.html he gave me the following recipe: Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal Estimated OG: 1.053 SG Estimated Color...

http://www.bjcp.org/docs/2008_stylebook.pdf Now THAT is a link :rockin: Ithangewe :)

Thanks SC, I realise that I wasn't going to get perfection, but I probably also believed the hype about how wonderful the brew kit was :o (ther was a lot of talk around about how they've moved on and taste like beer ought to). Defo next brew will be more manual, and hopefully I can have...

I've got an internal digi thermometer, so it should be the true temp. Thanks, will try that - how does IPA differ from APA?!

No, I don't think so... I've tried the newest brew that has a similar tang and so I'm going to add one of the hop teabags at the end to see what that does to it. What is the description for a yeast tang? It looks clear, smells ok, so I don't think it's that. That's my next phase...

Why? Less loss of taste?