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Thank you. I searched google for the worlds best rieslings to see what sort of thing to aim for, and it appears the prizes go to the sweeties. On this list is an ice wine, so maybe that is an answer. To ferment to balanced sweetness then concentrate. I've never done that before so it could be a...

I was just researching a particular grape variety and in a few bought versions they mention about pressurised fermentations. Possibly just to make frizzante but I've only just started looking. https://www.santamargherita.com/en/wines/semi-sparkling-wines/wine/61

My friend had me round this afternoon to help her pick some grapes (in a UK garden). There were more than we thought. 19 kilos+ (42.5lbs) of Müller Thurgau very ripe grapes. I'm thinking Lalvin QA23 to bring out the fruity flavours and enhance the Germanic aspects. I've looked them up to see...

Interest will probably lie in recipe perfection chasing rather than massive bulk making. All hobbies are, and have always been, based around blending and mixing something or other. Beer is a very suitable learning pursuit that can still be done in the kitchen whilst caring for the crumblies...

Got as far as filtering it as a beginner... but do have a small old fashioned distiller, so that is a possibility. A side by side on a simple recipe with some ideal water V our tap water will soon test if we can taste the difference. I'm not entirely sure my/our untrained beer testing palate is...

Thanking you. I'm going out today to look for some proper beer gear. I've bought a probe and a longer thermometer. Just smashed my lovely long hydrometer glass sample jar though. Stupid enough to leave it standing upright with no support. So don't know any of the true FG readings of these...

Stout experiment:- This has great potential for disaster but doing it anyway. We wanted a whole gallon so did these experiments in these five 1L mini mashes. Then they got left overnight before the boiling process. One of the first sparges had already begun fermenting on its own and smelled of...

Thank you. Keeping them under the stairs in a wooden box. My lads keep walking past and rubbing their hands in glee like magpies over a stash. It's very funny. I think no 2 might have been still been carbonating slightly. I'm not sure how a home brewer stops that if one is adding yet more...

Wayhay. Bottled the three first beers using these hops. What is so exciting is that all three were drinkable, even nice. It'll be interesting to see how they fare after conditioning. Thanks @Northern_Brewer for the name suggestion of Mongrel hops which led to the dog labels. Very fine mutty...

Had to look it up of course and it's very, very interesting. Coming into beer from the winemakers angle, then wort oxygenation is an area of great interest/concern. Through just a few forays, I'm already finding beermaking a significantly different procedure to winemaking on many levels. About...

It has way more fans than wines too. Plus family approval... never seen the men in my family so interested in my hobbies before...

Batch 4 - mash with much less MO, chocolate malt and barley, 90 mins, no US blatting 35fl oz Filtered water (1L weighed) Microwaved in the jug to 73*c poured onto 160g Maris Otter pale malt 23g chocolate malt 46g ordinary pot barley ground up to very course flour 1.30 hr timer set and temp set...

Luckily for the farmers, and not so for the home brewers on a budget. There appears on first more measured test to be less sugar, not more. Interesting. Batch 2 - mash with 10 mins ultrasound in 10 x 1 minute bursts spaced by three mins 35fl oz Filtered water (1L weighed) Microwaved in the jug...

Thank you. Appreciated and heed all tips. Ultrasound experiment begun. This will take a while and probably over a few evenings. It will be as scientific an experiment as an ordinary kitchen allows, and slightly tongue in cheek but I do want to know the answer. (The odd grain figure is because...

It'll be 'something' at the end.... it's the right colour and it's bubbling. I'll learn proper beer tending sooner or later. Does campden taste in beer? In winemaking it is used at nearly every transference procedure. I would have thought the lower abv of beer would make it more susceptible to...

Aha...... not exactly, but it was boiling water from the kettle poured over the grains. Newb lesson learned. And the extra cold water was just from the tap too. Oops. Hopefully the campden will protect.

Being such a beer newb after winemaking for ten years is fascinating. After the hours boil, over half the liquid was lost and I'd even done an extra sparge of the grains using fresh hot water to offset boil loss. The hydrometer was making a bid for the ceiling. So I diluted with three...

Yes. I hope post #33 is more accurate but not sure. It's a minefield to learn. I'm going to make a suitable stout next and see what happens.

I'm going to wait until the beginner beers I've made are tasted, and then decide whether these wildings are just useful as a bittering hop which I strongly suspect now, having cooked them up for a couple of boils. There's definitely a grassy, weedy compost smell as they boil. I'm going to be...

Point 2 about nano recipes having to be more accurate just proved for you. The second, supposedly identical, nano brew has just come out of the mini mash with an SG of 1.054. (yes, I did splat it with US too, so will definitely have to do a side by side with more accurate measurements to see...