New member from London England

Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:46 am

hi everyone,

I've just found the brewing network on itunes and am enjoying going through the back catalogue.. I'm especially enjoying the Can you brew it on the Jamil Show.. it's great to get some more info on how these brews are made!

I restarted my home brewing last year with a couple of kits then moved onto extract brewing which I did 3 batches of before I bought/made the rest of my missing kit and now I'm all grain brewing with 3 ag brews under my belt!

I hope to share some ideas/tips with you guys in the future!

Jim
Fermenting: Nothing
Conditioning: Fullers London Pride clone
Drinking: Remains of Bathams Bitter clone and other bought ales
jimbo74
 
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Re: New member from London England

Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:46 pm

Welcome aboard!
:jnj
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Carbing:
Churning: House Citra APA
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sexpanther
 
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Re: New member from London England

Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:34 pm

I'm glad you found us, Jim.

Tasty
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Re: New member from London England

Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:04 am

hi there Tasty.. I've heard you a lot lately! :-)
Fermenting: Nothing
Conditioning: Fullers London Pride clone
Drinking: Remains of Bathams Bitter clone and other bought ales
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Location: London, England

Re: New member from London England

Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:04 am

Welcome, Jim. Lots of good info here. Other stuff, too!
What have you been brewing and how have they been turning out?
:jnj
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Re: New member from London England

Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:26 am

Welcome Jim. Glad to have you. Hope you like :crazybitch: and :unicornrainbow: and :nutters:
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Re: New member from London England

Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:44 am

hi all

to answer your question snowcapt the 2 kits I did were a St Peters IPA and a Woodfordes Golden Ale which I'm sure you don't get over in the US but they're popular kits over here and they give good results for minimal effort. I then did 3 extract brews of an APA called "Way To Amarillo" http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/Recipes-american-ipa and the first 2 of those were a real eye opener!

The last one I added honey to after the boil and it just went wrong.. Some of the bottles of it were good (I mix between bottles and mini kegs) but the mini kegs were just undrinkable and they went down the drain. After that I went on an intro to full mash beers course run by a local homebrew store and when I saw how easy it was I decided to bite the bullet and go all grain and am so glad I did!

I started with a standard bitter which turned out real nice.. my brewday was seriously long though but enjoyable! I've since done a Bathams bitter clone (light bitter) which is a local brew to where I grew up.. that was so nice I've only got a few bottles left of that which I'm trying to keep and my last was a London Pride clone which is currently conditioning.

There's book over here called "How to Brew Your Own British Real Ale" by Graham Wheeler which is a bit of a homebrew bible as it's full of recipes to recreate some great beers and this is where most of my all grain attempts are currently coming from. I've got another brew day coming up this weekend which is going to be a mild which is another drink I grew up with!

How about you snowcapt, what do you brew/drink?
Fermenting: Nothing
Conditioning: Fullers London Pride clone
Drinking: Remains of Bathams Bitter clone and other bought ales
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Location: London, England

Re: New member from London England

Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:56 am

Hi Jimbo, welcome to the forum! There's loads of great beer information on here.

Where abouts in London are you? I'm out east in Woolwich, only moved here in January.

Have a look at London Amateur Brewers - a London homebrew club, I've been meaning to get along to a meeting but haven't had a chance yet, but reckon it'd be good to get involved!
http://londonamateurbrewers.wordpress.com/

:jnj
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