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I made a Christmas brew last year that was a bit rubbish due to my lack of experience (it was called Bad Santa from BYO magazine, but I subbed in different hops with a much lower AA rating, but I didn't add more to compensate, so it was just very sweet with nothing to balance it out). I quite...

After bottling a Scottish Ale, I stirred up the trub and poured a litre into a sanitised kilner jar and put it in the fridge. It's mostly a kind of dirty brown, with a very thin layer of lighter stuff on the top. Have I messed up and saved mostly gunk, and only the top layer is half decent...

I've got a saison that I brewed with WY3724 in early November, and it's been sitting on Yeast Bay Brussels Brett blend since mid November. I took a gravity reading two months ago and it was 1.000, so I'm assuming it'll be done (I'll take a gravity reading before I commit to bottling, just to be...

I want to make something with WLP028, a bit malty but not too strong (I might make a wee heavy sometime, but I want something a little bit more easily drinkable first). I was thinking something along these lines: 12 litres total 2.4kg pale 0.3kg dark crystal (215 ish EBC) 0.03kg roasted...

I've been told I should brew something with a bit of a more sensible ABV than the saison (7.5%) and dubbel (8.5%) that I've got on the go at the moment. I've got 30g of Galaxy hops in my freezer, and I've made a few IPAs so I thought I'd try making something a bit more malty next. I've used...

Brewuk.co.uk have got a lucky dip deal on some out of date yeasts (all less than four months past their best) and I got sent the above yeasts. I'm a fairly novice brewer, but with aspirations to do some more interesting things in my small flat. I do BIAB, in batches of around 12 litres. It...