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Nottingham has got quite a high temp tolerance. I've pitched it at 25C/77F during the summer and it was fine

Where are you. In the UK we have Cross My Loof https://www.crossmyloofbrew.co.uk/yeast-specs

I had noted that brewlabs only seem to supply there slopes through their "retail partner" rather than directly as they previously did. You can buy Bass beer easily enough from the supermarket here in the UK but it's filtered so that's not an option for getting hold of the strain. The only...

Im in the UK. I dont know anywhere you can get Bass apart from maybe Brewlab.

Almost as old as I am. Cool isnt it. I won 9 bottles of Silver Jubilee ale on ebay.Ale different breweries. The first one I tried, Courage, had a sour taste in the final step up so I assumed it had got infected. So I chucked it. This Gales one is really vigorous during all the step ups, much...

Yeast from a 17th century piece of furniture. Wow. Interesting. I'm currently doing the final step up from a bottle of beer which was brew by Gales brewery to celebrate the1977 (UK) Queen's silver jubilee

5L easy kegs. There just like massive bottles. Bottling day goes really quickly

I dont know about a bottle conditioned mixed thread but if your in the UK you can pick up some old(ish) beers from ebay that have yeast in them. I've seen bottle of whitbread beer from the 70's and 80's. I'm (slowly) culturing up the dregs from a bottle of Gales 1977 Jubilee ale. According to...

As others have noted the amylase makes this beer very clear almost like it's been filtered. Another thing I've noticed is if you normally get chill haze like I do (as I'm a no chiller), you dont with this beer as the amylase seems to drag the chill haze forming proteins out of the beer. I also...

Another great thing about this recipe is that, because the grain bill is so small it makes for a perfect maxi-biab for stove top brewers like me. My version had an OG of 1.027, so I just used the grain bill amount for 23L but made it like I normally make my 12L batches(so it fitted easily into...

I finally got around to making this, well a tweeked version anyway. It's a little lower OG as I wanted to go for around 3.5%ABV and keep the carbohydrate content nice and low (according to a calc online I found, it will be 4g carbs per 12oz bottle). But I kept the IBU:OG ratio the same as in the...

I recently bought some Cenntenial and Cascade as MrsMQ like an American pale ale with citrusy hops in it. I also suspect it would work well with challenger (I have lots of challenger), as I made a pseudo lager a couple of years back with challenger and that was really nice

Im not concerned about calories as Im not trying to lose weight, just cut out refined sugar and restrict my carbs intake (so it they turn into sugar in my body). After I posted in your thread I did a bit of googling and your beer does indeed appear to be very low in carbs. So this will deffo...

As this beer is has an FG of 1.000 does this mean it's super low in carbohydrates?

Dunno how often you get to London (if ever?) but nowadays the craftier places are the "normal" pubs,here. It's only really the large chains like Youngs and Fullers that havent changed much. Tbh, I dont often go to the Royal Oak (even though its so close), so when I do go I always get tempted by...

I recently started doing hop stands. I just chuck the hops in at flame out, put the lid on and leave it for 20 mins. This seems to add a bit of bitterness (not much) but loads of flavour so I'm pleased with the results

That's interesting, according to the yeast map on the barclay perkins blog, it's originally possibly the Courage strain. I got a bottle of Courage 1977 jubilee ale from ebay (along with 8 other jubilee ales) and tried to culture up any yeast in the bottle but it got infected :no:

Perhaps it's the (London) Pubs I go to but a lot of micro's seem to do a milk stout and I've found it a number of times when going out for a beer. I agree with you about milds though, I've only ever seen it twice in a pub here in 15 years (not including 'spoons beer festivals). Once in a Sam...

I've never had weevils before but we had a particularly hot summer last year in the UK and I think this prompted the weevil eggs to hatch

I had weevils in some flaked barley last summer. I only had it in the flaked barley which was stored in zip lock bags with other grains in zip lock bags. As I read they wouldnt effect a brew I just put the bags of FB in the freezer for a few days to kill the weevils and brewed the the FB in a...