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Jul

tagged: allotment, growing hops, hops

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Growing hops – update July 09

Posted by Trenchfoot in Growing Hops, Suppliers

Bit of a nightmare with the allotment…. I lost my key and haven’t been able to get in for several weeks!! I suspect Boo Boo has thrown them away… Anyway, managed to get a new set from the Pope and was nervous going down to survey the damage. Everything had

Jun

tagged: cider, mead, summer, tasting, Wine

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Mead Taste-off

Posted by Trenchfoot in Wine

Summer is here and knowing that it will will only last a few days at most, I invited a bunch of friends over for a barbeque. Summer just isn’t summer without spending at least one evening defiantly trying to cook sausages in the pouring rain, or biting through the thick

Jun

tagged: Equipment, liqueur, rumpot, rumtopf

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Another bargain Rumtopf… nice.

Posted by Trenchfoot in Liqueurs

Had to nip over to the boot fair this morning to pick up some dubiously cheap meat for tonight’s barbeque (don’t worry – it’ll be fine by the time I’ve carbonised it). Anyway, while I was there we had a quick look around for some toy cars for Boo Boo.

Jun

tagged: appearance, aroma, Beer, nose, palate, taste, tasting

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The Art of Beer Tasting: the basics

Posted by Trenchfoot in Beer, Beer Tasting

Today, I am going to start a new series of posts on how to taste beer. Hopefullly, this will build into a step-by-step guide on the art of beer tasting which will be useful to both the casual drinker and the expert brewer. The aim is to give you the

Jun

tagged: allotment, Beer, growing hops, hops, links, Suppliers

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Growing Hops

Posted by Fendog in Growing Hops, Suppliers

Came across a useful looking hop growing website just now – hoping to get a few plants going on the farm next spring to follow in Trenchfootsteps. http://www.growinghopsyourself.com/

Jun

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Kegging and Bottling the Wedding Brews…

Posted by Fendog in Beer, Bottling and Kegging

This weekend I finally got around to bottling and kegging some of my brews. On Saturday I bottled I think the second full-mash that I’d made, which I think was a clone of Old Speckled, which I was considering for Basil and the Senator, but now will use for the

Jun

tagged: belgium, wheat beer

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Belgian Wheat Beer

Posted by Fendog in Beer, Recipes

Here’s the Recipe I used: 2.4 kg Marris Otter 2.3 kg Wheat Malt 270g Munich Malt 200g Porridge Oats Mash 90 min 67 degrees Centigrade. 94 g Hallertauer Hersbrcker (2.1 % aa) 90 mins. last 15 mins: 20 g Hallertauer Hersbrcker. 8g Irish moss. 11g crushed corriander seeds. 10g orange peel.

Jun

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Back-to-Back Brewing

Posted by Fendog in Beer

3 Brews. One day. Here’s how: 0700 Wake up and think about brewing. 0845 Put water on 0910 Weigh Grain for Brew 1 (Belgian Trappist) 0940 Mash in 0945 Start Mash. 20g gypsum. pH 5.7. 67 deg C 0950 Drive to Stonehelm to pick up supplies 1040 Return. Check mash

Jun

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Chilling

Posted by Fendog in Beer

With the reduction in temperature today, it seems natural to turn my thoughts to the chilling of wort. Of the people I’ve chatted to recently about it, immersion chillers just don’t seem to chill the wort that far. As their name might suggest, immersion chillers are those that are immersed

Jun

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Harvesting Yeast from Bottle

Posted by Fendog in Beer, Ingredients, Yeast Harvesting

Finally got around to my bottles of Chimay this evening. Decided to boil up all my gear to sterilise, and boil up the wort in one of my mason jars within the pan too. I made up a smaller starter, so’s not to drown the yeast – 400 ml, with