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August 2008

4 articles in this section.

BEER

Naming a beer

When it was originally enacted in 1516, the Bavarian Purity Law stated that beer should only contain water, hops and barley. It’s a simple recipe that hasn’t changed much through the years. So, with these strict restrictions governing…

Trenchfoot · 18 Aug 2008
BEER

OBC and Explosions

Trenchfoot and I finally acquired the pressurised keg from the Squire, and having cleaned out the rather soily odours, we filled it with the OBC that had been stewing in my room for several weeks. The one drawback to the keg approach,…

Fendog · 14 Aug 2008
BEER

Bernard Dark

Discovered a great Czech beer in Tesco called Bernard Dark. I bought a couple of bottles primarily because they had re-sealable tops (like Grolsch bottles) and I thought that would be pretty useful for our homebrews. It was a bonus…

Trenchfoot · 11 Aug 2008
RACKING

Racking my pineapple wine

Racked my Tesco Value pineapple wine which has had plenty of time to ferment but was stubbornly bubbling through one blip every few hours. I added a campden tablet, half a teaspoon of fermentation stopper and also sweetened it with…

Trenchfoot · 3 Aug 2008