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Needed to rack my 1 gallon mead batch into a clean demijohn tonight. Not wanting to waste all the delicious yeasty goodness at the bottom, I decided on to make up a 1 gallon batch of ginger beer and pitch the yeast slurry from the…
For a while now, I’ve been wanting to have a go at making a simple Oatmeal Stout. The addition of a proportion oats to a stout can significantly add to the smoothness and the texture. It imparts proteins, lipids and gums which increase…
Brew day at the Lab as Fendog and I set up an IPA using the recipe below. Again, we used the church’s old Burco boiler (made more efficient after a good descaling). We must remember next time either to do the boil outside or use the…
Off to visit the Outlaws for a week tomorrow, so it’s a perfect time to set up a brew at home as the fermenter wont be anyone’s way for the coming week. (Space is at a premium at Chez Trenchfoot which is why most of the brewing takes…
I have discovered that there is actually specialist software to help you with your beer brewing! The two best that I have seen are Beertools and Beersmith . Both allow you to design, adapt and scale recipes, calculate final colour,…
Trying to decide what cheeses to get for Fendog’s birthday Beer & Cheese evening, I came across this useful chart put together by the Brewers Association. As with all charts it generalises somewhat but still useful.
last 15 mins: 20 g Hallertauer Hersbrcker. 8g Irish moss. 11g crushed corriander seeds. 10g orange peel.
What with the wearying demands of fatherhood and Fendog inexplicably active social life, there seem to be very few weekends when we can actually get together to brew. With this in mind, we have decide that all future brewdays will be…
Not content to let Trenchfoot hog the limelight, I am finally back and ready for action after my compatriot has laid down the gauntlet with his ‘turd in a jar’ mead. I’ve had some tinned strawberries in the cupboard for quite some time…
I’m still sore that Fendog stole my idea of making mead. So whilst he’s busy preparing his Leviticus sermon, I thought I would get one on the go this weekend so we can have a good old fashioned brew-off.
It’s Easter Day and what better way to celebrate the freedom that Christ’s death and resurrection has won for us than by brewing a batch of beer! As is my habit for Sunday brewdays, I mashed in just before setting off for church and…
Was looking forward to today’s brewday all week. It would be my first solo all grain brew (since Fendog is off running the Jerusalem marathon), and I would be trying out the mash tun I made last weekend. I got my grain from the Malt…
We set up our first beer brew today following the Mentor’s instructions and using the ingredients he bought for us. He has been brewing for years but tends not experiement these days. This is his standard tecnique which is designed for…
Finally we got round to brewing our royal wedding beer today. Fendog came up from the big smoke and the rain held off sufficiently to brew in the back yard, but it still proved an extremely frustrating day. After some thought, we gave…
Using cartons, bottles or tins of fruit juice is probably the easier way to make wine. With the variety on offer these days, you can make some really interesting wines with very little effort. There is no need for straining, mashing,…
Finally got round to bottling the banana wine thats been knocking around in a demijohn for goodness knows how long. Fendog was unavailable to help with the siphoning as he was getting his nostrils plucked. As a result, I disturbed the…
Making wine from tinned fruit is a easy way to make some interesting wines – especially as it is so easy to buy a wide variety of tinned fruit in supermarkets these days.