http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:41:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend was a very special weekend, my little sister got married. The man she married last name is Williams, so as a celebration I brewed a dark ale. I bottled it in pint bottles and took it along to the reception.It went down very well indeed, it proved so ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/homebrew-recipes/dark-ale-recipe-williams-ale.htm Just a quick post, I've found a neat little way to prime pint bottles. Normally I try to squeeze in a half a teaspoon of dried malt extract into the bottle with inevitable sticky mess on the side of the bottle. So next time I shall do it like this, take ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/techniques/priming-bottles.htm If only you could brew at this speed. This  is cool it is a time lapse video of the fermentation stage. http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/beer-stuff/brewing-at-high-speed.htm If you go to your local supermarket you may find a lot of beer kits available, Wilkos is our closest. Incidently they have woodefordes Wherry at 15 quid. Bargain!!! They have Geordie bitter kits at £4.99 which is great. The only problem with the geordie kits is that they have a ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/techniques/improving-beer-kits.htm Arh the eternal question, too keg or not too keg? It is actually a tricky descision, unfortunately there is no right answer. The decision whether you bottle the beer or keg it is largely dependent on a number of factors. You've made your beer you are please that it has turned out ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/techniques/alternatives-to-kegging-too-keg-or-not-too-keg.htm I was in Tescos a little while ago I walked past the reduced item shelves and there was a whole trolley full of reduced plums. They were reduced to something like 30p a punnet. Excellent I thought, so I filled my basket. I took me a little while to wash ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/homebrew-recipes/wine-recipes/plum-wine.htm Wow it's been a bit busy of late for me, what with moving house and our first baby on the way. The new house has given me the oppurtunity to acquire a new boiler, well not some much of a boiler rather a huge pan. It does work a treat though, ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/beer-stuff/price-of-a-pint-set-to-rise.htm If you like your beer to be hoppy then this is a good beer for you. I use Golding hops in this recipe, these give quite a hoppy taste, combined with the medium malt this ale is full of flavour but not so strong in alcohol that you fall down ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/homebrew-recipes/real-ale-recipes/golden-ache-ale-real-ale.htm Greetings Fellow Brewers.... Sorry I've been away for a while, work has kept me busy. Fear not I have been brewing though. This years naming theme is birds, last years was Aircraft. So here is Storm Petrel Pale Ale. It's a 2 gallon recipe, but can be scaled up as needed. 1 Gallon of water 200grms ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/uncategorized/storm-petrel-pale-ale.htm The Spitfire as a premium Ale is a superb beer. Here is my clone of the famous premium ale. It also fits nicely along side, my other beers, the Lancastor bomber, the mosquito bomber and the hurricane ale. This is simalar to the recipe found in the book Clone brews. It ... http://www.thehomebrewsite.org.uk/homebrew-recipes/real-ale-recipes/clone-spitfire-recipe.htm