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Hopefully not if the true forager I aspire to be. Scrounging the barley from a local farmer in exchange for doing his sons wedding beer (if mine works), found the hops locally and ok, bought the yeast, but will be recycling that for each beer hopefully. Plus no doubt will do a wild nettle top...

Thank you. The missing one for the brew charts. Didn't know enough science for the ....ic. We'll look up my sisters and dads areas for water. Maybe theirs will be better. Not buying in water as it almost defeats the object of making beer at home. Might as well buy beer.

It ought to be good for bones and teeth! Here's to making porters and stouts then. I found this article as a result of what you say. It has a link for John Palmers Nomograph. Thank you Most interesting if I've done this right. It certainly indicates the dark end of brewing. I can't find...

Hopefully the beginners luck/ignorant use of a water filter will have removed some of it. It's an old unchanged cartridge but the water went through. Quite what it says for the family all drinking this water on a regular basis, I do not know (yet).

https://www.brewersfriend.com/mash-chemistry-and-brewing-water-calculator/ Hi, I'm looking at water profiles. I found this site online and fed in the water profiles from my local councils website. It came up a red warning sign for the Calcium saying: Harmful. Do not brew at these levels...

Here is a good article. As a trueborn Virgoan nerd, I do so love the details.... ... plus also wondering how well risen any resulting bread would be, using the grains left after a mash if the useful sugars for rising have already been pinched. Going to have to try it of course. Here.

Hence brown beer bottles. Aha. Thank you

It is incredibly bitter. I scraped some more from the boxes and added it. Good for a back up hop shot maybe.

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Thank you very much to you all. School of beer info all absorbed and some hopefully more learnèd beer will be going into production soon. I also since found a very good author here who describes many stages too, all rather succinctly.

Thank you. I honestly HAVE been googling like mad for ages, plus reading books, as well as asking on here. There are loads of opinions online but not necessarily the scientific angle of the why. I will look at that link site thank you. I'd noticed in smaller quantities that a finer grind can be...

Just asking truly ridiculous things... but just have to ask. You can shoot this down in flames and get no complaints. I've read loads. I've looked stuff up that I don't understand. However, there are a few things still to grasp properly. I don't mind if you are really harsh. Just say why. Why...

What should we bring? If the wild hops we recently found are still on the bine then we could go and get some more. I've got a first ishy attempt at a beer. The next three aren't ready. Normally a country wine maker for a hobby, but beer is a newish interest as a natural extension. It has faster...

Did anyone ever make this?

I wandered into the brew cupboard and found this unconditioned jaggery beer still sitting there waiting. We tried a bottle last night and it's a very bitter sort of bitter but not fizzy. Not unpleasant but quite tart with a citrussy, hoppy finish to my unbeertrained palate. So today I decided to...

That looks fun. Not a trillion miles away from us. We'll think about that.

I promise I'll be dry hopping. I was curious on a very mini scale. That COX-2 Inhibitor is useful to know for a friend with CRPS. I'll tell her to drink more beer.

I suppose we could grind it and spit in it. It gets boiled after all. I was looking at the pot barley too today and bought a small amount to play with.

Well having thought of it. Just had to do it. This Daïquiri is 70% so ought to do the trick. It didn't seem to have much aroma nor flavour considering it is rum. It's probably as old as the hills as we don't drink the stuff. Golden sticky resin plus 70% rum = we'll wait and see

All three mongrel beers are smelling good so far. Each very different in their froth type appearance, so that's interesting in itself. Have dried all the other hops and will dry hop the second beer with them. They seem quite clean and are incredibly resinous when handling. My hands get...