August 2011
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It starts off soft... (Recipe)
Not every example of handmade beverage has to be alcoholic you know. Well, not too alcoholic anyway. Once in a while I’ll brew up a batch of ginger beer. Tonight I made a 5 gallon batch. Here’s a fairly simple recipe to try yourself, adjusted to make 1 gallon.
Ingredients
50g root ginger, washed & sliced thinly
2 large unwaxed lemons
500g granulated sugar
4 litres water
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From Little Things: The Imperial Stout Taste-Off
I mentioned in my first post about how small differences in recipes can result in substantial variations between the final product. Here’s an example.
2008 Imperial Stout
Created November 2008, all-grain mash, adjuncts included dark muscovado sugar
3.5 gallon wort boiled down to ~2.5 gallon
Primary fermentation in plastic fermenter ~10 days
Secondary fermentation 2 x 1 gallon demijohns,...
Things I have learned from homebrewing (1)
I was drinking one of my ‘experimental’ bottles earlier this evening. It was an IPA I made in April from a larger batch that became ‘Gold Spot’ (named after its golden colour and the fact that it had small dots of minced up blueberries floating in it). The experimental batch, however, was a gallon of the IPA wort, hopped with the same goldings hops during the boil, but then...
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Just little things...
My first post is one about something that I’ve developed quite a passion about.
Imperial Stout.
Yeah, I know that every man and his BrewDog right now is jumping on board this particular Baltic steamer across to our Slavic cousins and it’s the snow-cool thing to brew to get yourself noticed, but it’s a style of beer that I have a lot of time for. I have no choice but to,...
