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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,…
I know it sounds minging, and it probably is. But I thought I would give it a go. This recipe is adapted from one found on Jack Keller’s website . Jack is an elder statesman of winemaking and although his site is in desperate need of a…
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.
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…
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.