Recent content by Wincky

I'm from Norwich, in England. I think the Crystal 150 is a light crystal malt. I may go medium or dark with this one. There's an international malt company not far from where I live with some info on it if that helps to work out which one is which! http://crispmalt.co/crystallised-malt

Also I forgot to say the crystal malt is called crystal 150, I don't know what the American version of it is unfortunately!

Cheers for the help guys! So with the Munich malt, I heard it gives a bit more protein than the Marris Otter which is why I went for that (I'll be mashing at a slightly higher temperature as well for protein). But if it's not going to do a lot then I'd happily omit that one. So would I be...

Hello friends! Trying to come up with a sweet stout recipe without using lactose and I'm worried about using too much speciality malts and ruining the taste. I've got some percentages down and I'm hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction please! anyway, here we go...

thanks for all the suggestions guys. i've been checking the FG with a hydrometer and it's still the same so I decided to add some carbonation drops to the bottles (I used them instead of priming sugar because I've had bottles explode on me before, possibly from me calculating things wrong) I...

hi guys! just wondering if someone could help me please. I made an IPA recently, left it to ferment for 1 week, put it in the secondary for 2 weeks and went to bottle it. About half way through bottling I took the SG reading and it was at 1.020 (ish). I decided to carry on and bottle the rest...

My housemate's girlfriend found some hops growing in her garden and picked them for us over the summer. i dried them out and they've been sat in my freezer for a while now. i'm still fairly new to brewing and i'm not sure what to do with them. what would be the best way to use them, in order to...

Hello! I'm robbie and i'm from england. i decided to join after lurking for a while. i've made a few home brews but some of them have gone a bit wrong and that so i thought i could do with learning how to brew properly