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There are several things I have been wanting to do for a while to help dial in my system and to make brew days, simpler and easier. One of these brew DIY tasks was to make a sparge arm …
Making a sparge arm for a 28L Thermos coolbox mash tun Read more »
As happens quite often, I found myself with grains I wanted to use up and time to brew a batch. I had done several fruity and pale beers so fancied something a bit different for a change. Something fuller flavoured …
Brewday again and this time I was looking to do something less fruity and more in line with a basic English Bitter. I started out with a recipe for a basic brown ale and made a few twists and changes …
Here at Daft Cat, we are big fans of the Seirra Nevada Pale Ale. I was asked to brew some, so I went looking for a recipe and came across this SNPA recipe by Mysterio I was in the process …
Well its been a double batch weekend with a few issues with both batches. Saturday I brewed a 5 imperial gallon batch of MO / Galaxy SMaSH A Single Malt Single Hop Aussie Pale Ale. I have heard it said …
Another brew day done and another batch in the fermenting chamber. If you watched my Home Brew Wednesday this week, you will see I wasn’t happy with my Chinatu recipe. Whilst it was a lovely beer, it didn’t have the …
With 5 kegs and 4 of them already full of beer, it was about time to sort out the beer taps and get some of the other kegs on tap. So this weekend it was time to put my …
I’m a big Hobgoblin fan so the next brew I have done is also a clone recipe, this time it is a clone of the Wytchwood Hobgoblin Starting to get a bit more used to the all grain process now …
Treated myself to some different hops and speciality malts and one of the hops was Kohatu, I wanted to try something a bit different so I went with a basic pale malt with Chinook for bittering and Kohatu …
I had always promised myself that the first all grain brew I tried would be a Ringwood Fortyniner clone. Well it was 🙂 I got the All Grain kit for this from brewuk along with the Wyeast 1187 Smack pack …