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It's possible they have some dme made specifically for them. Muntons makes lme beer kits of every style, including hazy. But you can mix different types of dme. They may do that. And tbh with a small amount of extra work you can steep some grains and get better beer anyway. I once steeped...

I'm saying you can brew these beers without buying a Flash kit so it's entirely branding. They may have extract made specifically for them, but so do no-boil extract kit companies in the UK, who don't claim to have invented something. The UK kits have improved enormously in recent years with...

I think he called it dried wort cos he assumed it was hopped, which may or may not be the case. In the UK we can buy hopped extract, I'm sure you can too. Extract is boiled and does not need to be boiled again. Loads of homebrewers make beer by simply mixing extract with water and adding hops...

Sure. It's a different thing isn't it? A limited release of a few casks.

Well I got lucky again and got a third of a pint (appr 7 oz) of cask Thomas Hardy Ale 2024 today. But I'm not going to be much use to you people, sorry, cos I didn't particularly enjoy it. I hardly ever drink beers stronger than about 8%, and I mostly drink below 5%. For me the cask Thornbridge...

I often use Verdant IPA in dark beers now. Stout, porter, brown ale. By often I mean two or three times a year. It's called IPA yeast but it's an English yeast, 1318 that's been used in a brewery with US hops for a while, and I find it makes dark beers I really like. I don't make IPAs. I make...

Apparently the union set was donated but the installation cost £30,000.

You're not too far from source, it's worth the effort. The bar above I can cycle to in 15 minutes. Pretty handy.

The Union set was donated to Thornbridge by Marston's when they closed their remaining sets down earlier this year, and they also helped to install it and providing training in how to use it. A Scottish brewery also got one. These arrangements were brokered by Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery...

I had this this cask Burton ale last week, brewed by Thornbridge in collaboration with Kernel on the Burton Union set they acquired earlier this year from Marston's. They took advice from Ron P and based It on a 1922/23 Courage KKK recipe. It was pretty wicked. I had two to make sure it wasn't...

Absolutely. I would just wait longer to make sure the Windsor is finished and then package the beer, myself. But if you do want to get a beer that has finished primary moving again, cos it's not what you want, you probably need an aggressive yeast.

It's a Lallemand suggestion and they aren't prone to madness. It doesn't change things as much as you'd imagine, and I've done it a couple of times myself. It's only inching the FG down, and is unlikely to get as low as a full blown Belle Saison fermentation does. You get very little flavour...

Strange that Verdant yeast seems to stay in the mud 70s over generations. Strange but true, I think. Maybe it gets more aggressive eventually.

1024 gives you 69% apparent attenuation which is right in the middle of the manufacturer's stated range of 65-72%. Your software assumed a higher attenuation than Windsor is capable of. Taking the gravity below 1024 may or may not be a good thing. If the beer tastes good, leave it alone, in my...

I don't know what it is. It might be BE-256. I'm just skeptical, I've read that Fermentis don't sell yeast to repackers and I think MJ yeasts generally fit the Lalbrew range. And BE-256 is a pale coloured yeast. As a commercial operation I wouldn't be surprised if they blend partly to keep...

I know it's a blend, I've seen the two colours myself, and even flagged it up on here in 2021. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/m31-tripel-mangrove-jack-yeast-reviewi-know-th.675507/post-9082952 But I've got my doubts about MJ using any Fermentis yeast. No solid evidence but I suspect...

Yes New England too, maybe it sells more? Or maybe the production of Koln was just proving too tricky? I think they said Belle had a separate packing line to avoid cross contamination but they now needed that line for something else.

I've not used Farmhouse (pack in fridge) but I agree with everything you say. What we don't really know is Lallemand's reasons. The Belle decision was about using a separate 11g packing line for something else. Koln had a low cell count but nobody seemed to mind. London, I don't know. Sales...

If you view the pdf "Mangrove Jack's Yeast Range" on this page of their website m31 is classified as saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus. https://help.mangrovejacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019111174-Craft-Series-Beer-Wine-Cider-Mead-Yeast-strain-information

M31 is diastatic, BE-256 isn't. So they can't be the same. Similar perhaps.