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I'm an Englishman in England and it's gradually getting harder to get English beers here too. They are less common anyway. I still like English beers best and I don't really properly understand why they are so underappreciated. There's so much poor quality lager about. Why do we think English...

If you aren't used to fermenting with Belgian yeasts you are going to be surprised by the different smells I think. The oats will likely play a part too. I like the mini fermenter with hydrometer idea! Never come across that before. Cheers.

Brulosophy has dine 5 or 6 exbeeriments comparing different mashing and steeping methods for dark grains. They haven't produced major differences, or the results people expected in some case. One beer with cold steeped grains tasted of tobacco, when the mashed dark grain version didn't. The...

That's not my experience of black malt tbh. And it has a slightly lower colour than roast barley, which is used to create much of the flavour of Guinness. I appreciate that we all perceive things differently.

I've done lots of split batches to compare two grains, two hops, two yeasts. I've done a few where I split a batch into four or five small batches. I've used different beer styles. Perhaps focus on one favourite beer style to try some different alternatives. I like English Bitter/Pale Ale so I...

Was it this? https://byo.com/article/continual-improvements/ Or this .. https://byo.com/article/improve-quality-and-consistency/

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Boddingtons was good before it got dumbed down and before the yeast was replaced by a Whitbread yeast. Whitbread bought the brewery in 1989 iirc. 35 years ago. I have lived in Manchester since nice 1989! But I grew up with Boddies pubs in my home town in Lancashire. If you think it was piss, you...

I've not used it with a Guinness dry stout recipe but I do similar grain bills with some crystal malt and maybe some chocolate malt, and it's worked well. I don't think I'd do the Guinness recipe without nitro tbh. You're better off with some more grain complexity from my experience.

This is purely my opinion, and I've barely brewed a Burton ale (I've done some similar stuff), but I wouldn't use all that crystal and I wouldn't use black treacle, myself. I think black treacle is a risky ingredient, for me at least, capable of dominating. If I do a Burton ale I will try the...

Leeds and Sheffield also well worth visiting for ales. 45 minutes on a train through the hills.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not really keen on nitro beers myself. I drink a Guinness once in a while but it's a pretty dumbed down drink these days I reckon. Not much flavour. Cask is my preferred serve, but I just bottle my homebrew, I've stuck with what I know. I make small batches...

A few pubs do that to show you the beer colour. You can also ask for a taste sample in most pubs.

Tulip, straight or nonic glass usually. 😉

You can still buy mild in Manchester. Not far from Cheshire! Holts and Hyde's do dark milds. Phoenix does Monkeytown Mild.

I'm in Manchester. Well worth a visit for beer! Two hour train ride, a good number of micro breweries in the surrounding area still make cask bitters, and we serve cask correctly up here. 😃

Some english maltsters call their amber malt biscuit, I think they are the same thing. But there is a wide range of amber malts and they vary a lot so i'm wondring which one/s is/are closest to Victory. Thanks.

I started adult life in the 70s cask drinking bitter, and it is still my favourite style. I don't drink commercial bottled bitters because they are never as good as draught. And draught bitters are getting harder to find, now that lager is 75% of UK draught sales, and American craft stuff and...

The Marley's Mild recipe looks good, I have always been a bitter drinker rather than a mild drinker, but I might give it a go. I can't get Victory malt here, so I'm wondering which English amber malt might be closest. And I'm tempted to increase the ibu a little, 20/22 maybe.

I don't think there's a simple answer to this, as historically different brewers have done different things. It used to be quite common for breweries to sell draft mild as brown ale in bottles, I believe. The same beer. Other breweries made two different beers. It's very difficult to find...