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Sunday, 14 December 2014. Beer O'Clock Show Homebrew Special. Earlier in the summer Steve, one of the hosts of the excellent. Asked myself a couple of other well know Twitter homebrewers ( Ady Goodrich. Whether we would want to feature on this years homebrew special. T. He only stipulation being that I had to re-brew the Black Forest Stout. I had sent him the year previous. Obviously I jumped at the chance and despite one failed brew the final beer turned out pretty good. Anyway, enough chit-chat! 30 g -...

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Monday, 23 February 2015. Whirlpool Hopping - 80°C vs 100°C. It's widely regarded that if you want extract as much aroma and flavour out of your hops you would whirlpool at 80°C, which is just below the threshold in which the hop oil would boil off. The mythbusters at Port66 wanted to put this too the test, whirling pooling batches at both 80°C and 100°C, with some pretty surprising results. The Fine Art of Matching Beer with Bar Snacks. Wonder no more, The Telegraph have done the hard work. Monday, 16 F...

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Tuesday, 12 May 2015. AG #1 - Paradise Porter. However, a year later that beer was absolutely spot on. The plan for our beer was to create a subtle toasted coconut flavour bouncing off the roasted grain, the backbone of a robust porter. Not only was this going to be my first forae into true all grain brewing, but it would the first time I get to use my new 100 litre kit in anger. Nothing like starting off simple eh? What I hadn't factored in was the temperature of the stainless steel mash tun! With the w...

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Monday, 8 June 2015. AG #2 - Melon Farmer Saison. It’s a mellow hop so I planned to bulk it out a with some Topaz. This I had absolutely shitloads of lying around after a bulk club purchase. After what I thought was a disastrous first brew on the new kit (the resultant beer actually turned out very good! Still, it’s only my second brew so I shouldn't expect it to be perfect just yet. Assuming I was over the worse, I foolishly threw in the wrong first wort hops! 5 kg Vienna (77%). 15 kg Maris Otter (23%).

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Saturday, 1 November 2014. BIAB #11 - Black Forest Stout 2 (Re-brew). Having already researched, planned and prepared what seemed to be a decent recipe, I decided to change it at the last minute, all because I had sampled an excellent chocolate stout at the Homebrew Camp. Instead of adding cacao nibs I put a couple of milk chocolate bars in there! The result was an severely alcohol heavy beer (we’re talking barley wine territory) that was extremely overcarbed, these things were dangerous! 50g - Citra Lea...

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Monday, 23 March 2015. Macc Homebrew Goes To Chorlton Brew Co. It’s exciting times for beer at the moment, especially around the North West, with new breweries popping up at a rate of knots producing some truly superb beers. One such brewery to hit the scene recently is Chorlton Brewing Company. He was going to be out of action for weeks, which isn't a great position to be in with a fledgling brewery to run, so it was the perfect time to offer our assistance. In true new brewery fashion Chorlton Brew Co&...

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Friday, 14 August 2015. Macc Homebrew Change Venues. I was just sat here trying to recall how long the Macclesfield Homebrew Club has been going and came to the startling realisation that we're coming up to our 2nd anniversary! It just seems like yesterday that we were all sat around the massive round tables in Red Willow all getting to know each other! Other than the venue, nothing else has changed! So if you fancy meeting up with some fellow homebrewers, pop down! 160;Gubbins about me. I'm Dave, beer f...

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Tuesday, 28 April 2015. How 'Petrus Aged Pale' Come To Be. Belgian Smaak have an interesting article about how Brouwerij De Brabandere's Petrus Pale Ale came to be following a visit by the 'Beer Hunter' Michael Jackson. Yeast Pitch Rates: Single Vial vs Yeast Starter. Performing experiments that you want to do but don't have the brew time, Brulosophy compare differences between pitching a fresh vial of yeast and a yeast starter. An Introduction to Cask Conditioning Homebrew. Monday, 20 April 2015. Intro ...

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Wednesday, 18 June 2014. BIAB #7 - Vienna Sorachi Saison. A while back I received a message from Graham. One of the fellow Macc Homebrew Club members, mentioning he was having a bit of an email chin-wag with James Kemp. Which in a way stated the same thing, with views from well known US brewers such as Alesmith and Firestone. So with my next brew, I was planning on another SMaSH, revisiting a 100% Vienna malt base and throwing in the 100 grams of Sorachi Ace I had recently acquired from Al. Thankfully, a...