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My bitter hasn't cleared more over the two weeks since I packaged it which is a bit annoying. I had been hoping it would drop bright, as I dislike any sort of haze in my bitters and don't use auxiliary finings . Flavour is very good though and the vanilla aroma is interesting. I did use a new...

I started drinking in the mid 90s, two of my favourite beers then were Maclays 80/- and also Deuchars IPA was a really good, nationally available ale. Unfortunately Maclays is no more and Deuchars has gone through a number of different owners, if memory serves it started to go downhill about 20...

A bitter I brewed with it, will package it on tuesday I think. Decently quick fermentation rate I think. Looking forward to trying it out.

Some of my Alleppo peppers which are now being dried. These have been struggling to ripen. Still to pick a fair number more and a lot more biquinho and jals, which I will pickle also my grapes are ripening slowly and unevenly, hopefully make about 10 bottles of wine from them this year, I...

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Those are the ones in my greenhouse and are doing fine, I've got three plants outside and have a grand total of two tomatoes on them! Next year I'll try some outside that are more suited to the climate here

Tigerella tomatoes - not particularly impressed with flavour with the ones that have allready ripened some of my peppers- Aleppo, Aci Sivri, Jals. Need the Aleppos at least to ripen

Did 6 pizzas today, one ****** up so had to retop one of the marinaras I was going to freeze. A Di Maria Nduja is very good btw. other toppings were home grown aci sivri peppers, basil, oregano, garlic, olives, peppers, scamorza, mozz, chanterell duxelle, This was the retopped one, so is...

This was the last heavy I made. 80% Extra Pale Ale malt 10% Flaked Maize 10% Invert no3 OG 1.040 (was aiming for 1.038) FG 1.008 Hops were Pilgrim, about 30g at 60mins, came in at 35IBU wort IBU. Nottingham yeast, would change next time for something more interesting at this strength. And...

Tipopils was a lovely beer last time I had it, quite a while ago now. I think the brewer was inspired by the bitterness of Jever, while it is quite a different beer the bitterness and dryness reminds me of it - not so much the extra hop flavours and aroma.

Nice. I think this would be a good idea for a thread on how the different yeasts perform, with as much supplementary info as possible Here is my most recent ferment with k97. one packet dry pitched into 21l of 10.48 wort. 83% AA. A golden ale with a hochkurz mash .notice the 24 hour lag period...

I use the oven for invert, much easier than messing around with a pan on the hob. Demerara, some water, lactic acid, heat on hob till dissolved then place in the oven at 120c until desired colour is reached. It takes longer than using a gas hob but that's fine by me. I check the oven temp...

Three of six from the weekend. Cooked a little lower and slower than normal due to it being rather windy, still tasted good

Very topical Would make a good topical theme for this thread for a while, cities/towns/townships and countries named after highly questionable individuals. Would also double as an education

Nice. What variety of tomatoes are you growing? I've only got tigerella this year, from old seeds - was wanting to grow a few different ones but that plan got COVIDed my plants are taking off now, it takes a while for them to go this far north

some from yesterday - dough was a bit underproofed due to old yeast

My peppers are starting to take off a bit. Got a good few aleppos and aci sivri forming. "Early" Jalapenos though? Nope. My tomato plants are just starting to show flower buds, no flowers though. I have five or so outside, three in a greenhouse I'm trying tomatillos outside this year and some...

Funny reading this thread, I spent many hours over the last few days going through hobbybrauer.de . My german is poor so I was having to use google translate a lot I've spent a few months, spread over a number of years, drinking my way through parts of germany and while their big beers...

last weeks efforts

Looks like Marstons and all their current brands will continue their race to the bottom https://www.marstons.co.uk/docs/jv/2020/Marstons_PLC_forms_JV_Partnership_with_Carlsberg_UK_220520.pdf Shame, compared to GK for example they did try to keep the brands they aquired going in their original...