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Love this. In fact all brewdog stuff atm.

Putting a brew on sunday, making a hardcore IPA/Bengal Tiger clone, should settle around 6.8%ABV

Meanwhile I have homemade Cyser that I'll be drinking for a while, and I'm polishing off opened bottles before I do Stoptober

 

Fireball - Great Christmas drink (So us Swedes think)
Plantation Rum Barbados Aged 5 years - Best rum for you ££? Wicked stuff.
Limoncello Dolce Cilento - For me the perfect Lemon cello.

 

Do you follow me around or just comment on all the posts at the top of the list?

 

That sounds intriguing. Do you fancy sharing the recipe in the homebrew thread so I can nick it, I mean look at it?

 

I'll take notes and put it up on Monday night. I'm taking to it my fathers to brew as I'm moving out.

 

Cool. Any idea what's going in?

 

I grabbed a tinnie from the local brewery earlier today - just the one



Only 5 litres this time. Very nice, light pint. The advantage, of course, being that I can buy a barrel or pin at a time

 

2 tins mild LME (from a reduced price Wilko ale kit) + 500g Spray malt and 500g-1kg brewing sugar

50g fuggles
50g chinook hops
100g Cascade

Theoretical IBUS 20-30 (nowhere near brewdogs 200 ?!!)
ABV 6-7%
I'll put boil and brew times down later, plus time and quantity of dry hopping.

 

I super rarely drink IQ dimmer juice but man it does me good now & then.

 

Very nice. I like cascade a lot.

Is the kit LME pre-hopped? The reason I ask is because apparently pre-hopped kits are not supposed to be boiled again, certainly not for a full 60 or 90 boil. I've never tried it myself but it's something I've heard said many times.

 

I only boiled the hops.
50g Fuggles @60 mins,
15g Cascade @ 10 mins,
10g Chinook @0mins 80C,

I added my hop "tea" to the wort that I made and pitched at roughly 24C, the whole house smelt of beer. Wonderful.

Will be dry hopping with about 100+g of mixed high alpha hops like cascade, chinook and Simcoe for 2-5 days. Might dry hop twice at intervals.

I should be at about 20 ish IBU's but I'm not sure that will be high enough. I wanted to be nearer 100. This experiment will tell me where I want to be in future, maybe I'll taste before dry-hopping for bitterness, I can always add another "hop tea"

OG was 1052 so should settle at around 5.6% ABV, (changed my mind on strength, and left out the sugar)

 

Earl Grey. I haven't had any boozeabis for over a week! #notanaddict

Sounds good!

Yes, if you only boil the hops in water (instead of wort), you won't get the same extraction efficiency so any IBU calculations will be off. Still, it sounds like it should be a nice brew!

 

Home made cranberry wine...

Take 6 one litre cartons of cranberry juice (out of date so free) and decant 5 into a demijohn - add high strength yeast - rack twice topping up with the remaining carton as appropriate - bottle - enjoy... still tastes sweet - I suspect artificial sweeteners that the yeast couldn't digest.

Taste 4/10
Cheepness 10/10

 

Galapagos Stout from the local Darwin Brewery...

 

Rhubarb and Ginger from Edinburgh Gin
Oh, and plain, great, Edinburgh Gin!

 

A Christmas Gift from a client:

 

Neuf-du-pape, very nice! Wish I had clients like that.

 

No kidding. Those are expensive bottles of wine...

 

A very hot mug of hot chocolate with a few chocolate digestives

 

A triple Black Grouse with a dash of water. Happy Friday folks