Recent content by Richardb22

An old thread I know but did you make the carboy jacket TripelThreat or is it bought? Thanks Richard

Thanks to previous posters for helpful replies. OK been brewing from kits. My last post was about low ABV beers and from the info recieved I have checked out some Session beers and in particular lager styles. So the plan ( and it is scary ) is to follow a recipie. If I bugger it up I...

I hope I too will be enjoying a beer in my 70s . Thanks guys will have a read on session beers and cream ales . If I find a suitable recipie I will post it here. Richard Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I will be brief . Love beer but drinking too much ( not according to me never missed a days work etc ) but with kids lovely wife got to cut down . Actually its not so much too much but every day for 35 years and though I am more mellow now I have passed 50 I am also more worried about my...

Yes this is worth a go. Will update you as to how it turned out . Thanks all. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Background. I have been brewing with kits. One day with a house, garden,shed etc I want to step up but kits are easier in a small flat. Brewing so far. A variety of kits and styles. Some brewed just for the hell of it. I have tried to improve each kit by using an appropriate dark or light spray...

I did not mean 80 bottles I did on my first brew use small bud bottles and never again niw I have 550 or 660 ml

So far I fill my brew bucket with a solution of brewing steriliser from wilkinsons submerge three bottles at a time till they fill up empty them but they are still wet with the sanitiser put them on the counter repeat for eighty bottles by the time I get to the end the first bottles should be...

Thanks mate one of these days I am going to go to town on the best brews . Trying my hand with the basics to start . Richard

I get the point no shortcuts thanks all

It has been a very hot week. Simply brew do have london porter on sale. Sterilising 40 bottles in a small kitchen is time consuming. Thanks to those who have answered

put a new brew on Sunday, a london porter pouch kit 50% dark sme and 50% + a bit brewing sugar. I am normally a lager or IPA at a push kit brewer but a well known kit maker had a sale and I fancied something different so I got a few bitters and this porter. The instructions like most kits...

Is all this sterilising necessary? Many years ago my family made wine. Weeks before the barrels would be filled with water so the wood expanded and they were watertight and yes a few days before brew day I remember some sterilising solution. In went the grapes straight out of their boxes...

I am a new brewer and read up on this. Glass: Easy to clean, lasts forever, heavy, no possibility of plastic tainting your brew. Plastic: Light, easier to store, degrades, could get scratched and harbour bacteria. I got a deal on a 23lt glass carboy which is full of betterbrew export...