Home-brewing General. What are you currently brewing?What are you currently drinking?What are your plans?Post you brews, recipes, ideas and problems.Beer, wine, cider, distilling all welcome. old 'un >>2962625
Has anyone else (Britanons) tried using 'Sussex' hops, and if so how much did they differ from ordinary Fuggles?
>>3000736Currently brewing plain cider, cranberry cider, a raspberry wine, a strong cider, a blueberry melomel, and an IPA. Just finished brewing ginger beer, mead, a brown ale, a guava fizz, and a raspberry fizz. Going to start another batch of mead this weekend, and another batch of strong cider. I make a gallon of strong cider every weekend, it keeps me in 10% ABV booze all week for $4.
>>3000738I've used both, and can't tell a difference. Some of my friends claim they can, but can't tell me what's different, just that they are. I buy whichever is cheaper and use that.
>>3000865The thing was I was looking to buy the 500g pack of Fuggles from malt miller when I saw that Sussex was a couple quid cheaper, in the end I went with Fuggles because never having used Sussex I didn’t want to regret it. Think I should’ve just risked it.
>>3000864Sounds good! I have a low ABV Kölsch cold conditioning, an APA sitting in the fermenter, and a ton of plums I want to turn into wine and cider. I still have to bottle last years plum wine, it's been sitting in a glass carboy since last August.
>>3000864busy guyim still out of base malt so tried a experimental fruit hydromel? honey sugar blackberries bitter/sweet orange peel corriander seeds bittered with callista hops to 30ibus. made up 12l should come in around 10%. might add some maltodextrin to thicken it up a bit when the fermentation is done, lets see.>>3000983i have a plum tree thats done quite well this year, was thinking of making a plum porter and some wine when their ripe
Rhubarb stalks in bucket, rinsed once then pour boiling water over. After cooled strained into another bucket with about 1.5 lb sugar per gallon and sprinkled yeast. Dad told me the recipe is called "she won't say no."
>>3000736Currently ageing last year's cider. Quite a few quince blends. I'm drinking some of last years pet nat ciders which turned out amazing and I'm kicking myself for not doing more pet nats. Plans are scrump around for early high acid apples, try to find some early ripening crabs for my easy drinking blend (80-90% early apples + 10-20% crabs). Beyond that my grape harvest should be solid this year so I'll probably do a few coferments since they can be fun, I'll probably try to source some perry pears to make a QPA.
>>3000736What do you guys do with spent grains (besides throwing them in the bin)?So far i've made flour, drying it takes forever, and made bread, turned out quite tasty but needed about 5-7 min more in the oven.
spent grain as compost and spent hops as mulch for the soft fruits.
>>3001424hops is highly toxic for dogs while they occasionally do like to eat grain so for those with dogs I highly recommend not mixing it and throwing it somewhere where the dog(s) can get to it.
>>3001026Is that a wine or a mash for distillation?
>>3000983>>3000994I want to make a plum wine so bad, but we've had a late frost every spring for the past 3 years that kills all the blossoms on my trees. I'm halfway tempted to build fires near them like they do in vineyards if we have a late cold snap again next year. Three trees, all covered in hundreds of blossoms, then they die the first week or so of May. So frustrating.
