I will put some in your box, then.

Yay!

I will do an amber ale with them. As I have loads of crystal malt still to use.

Right.

1600g pale malt, 400g Crystal malt, 100g black malt. Mashed at 68 for an hour in 7 litres, end temp 65. Sparge with 7 litres at 80 for 10 minutes.Boil for an hour, 60g each of East Kent Goldings, styrian goldings and first gold added . At 55 minutes added 454g honey, 60g first gold and 5g irish moss. 1065 og so should run out at 7.4%. Hopefully it should be a nice hoppy porter.

I will do an amber ale with them. As I have loads of crystal malt still to use.

20% crystal malt and 25g each of hops. 1045 og so might run out between 4.5% to 5.2%.

1800g Maris Otter, 200g Crystal Malt is the grain bill. Will hop with citra and cascade. Mash on!

Note high tech mash tun.

Exciting sparge and hop action! 1am. Jesus.

Don't worry, he has given it a beard. Literally, where do you think his went?

Turbo Cider 2.

4.4 litres 11.4% sugar solution and 100ml Ribena. And 6 teabags.

Why would you do that? It was going so well - cider shouldn't be fizzy!

Brewdog have released a 'back catalogue' with details of ingredients and method for making all of their beers. And they really do mean all; they seem to have included entries for everything from their experimental short-lived concoctions right through to their core line-up. In the case of Punk IPA for instance they've even included both variation as they apparently changed the recipe in 2010. I don't know enough about this stuff to know if this really is all the info you'd need to try and make your own version or if it's somehow missing important detail but still, it would be cool to try and do your own versions of their beers to see how close you could get to the originals.

Ooh.

Are you about to turn your spare room into a brewery?

Brewdog have released a 'back catalogue' with details of ingredients and method for making all of their beers. And they really do mean all; they seem to have included entries for everything from their experimental short-lived concoctions right through to their core line-up. In the case of Punk IPA for instance they've even included both variation as they apparently changed the recipe in 2010. I don't know enough about this stuff to know if this really is all the info you'd need to try and make your own version or if it's somehow missing important detail but still, it would be cool to try and do your own versions of their beers to see how close you could get to the originals.

I was sitting at my desk drooling at the idea of making my own version of some of their sour beers but fuck knows when I'd ever have the room for such shenanigans. Even if I do move at some point in the new few months as planned I'm still only looking for a two bedroom place and I'd be a bit worried doing something involving large quantities of liquids if I've got neighbours below me...

You can scale it all down. I make 10 litres at a time on the hob. Equipment wise I use a kettle, a 15 litre saucepan, garden sieve, fermenting bin, muslin cloth, hydrometer, measuring cylinder, hop bag and a wormdo. The biggest volume of water you would use this way is 12l just before you boil it. Go for it.

What's a wormdo.... ?

What's a wormdo.... ?

6%.

Not as dry as the other one. Have added sugar so it will be fizzy

Too sweet? Too sour? Just plain minging?

It is gopping. Took one sip and binned it. And MOTHER OF GOD THE AFTERTASTE. It is like someone is running electricity through your teeth.

Sounds like Old Rosie by Westons.

Do you like Old Rosie?

I have started work on ly wort chiller. The copper pipe came in a spiral so I just had to make it tighter to fit in the pan with bits sticking out the top.microbore tube is very soft and I have buggered up the bottom turn so I need to waste 1m of it so far as it is kinked. All the pictures of everyone else's look rather neat and tidy and mine looks like a spiral of copper which is wider at the bottom.

Tinner's ale, tonight. Mainly, because I've ended up having to clarify the timescales of "dreckly" with MrsA as after 14 years she still doesn't understand how it is like "mañana" but without the hurry, as stuff still isn't at the tip.