I’m usually pretty silent on this blog letting Paul do all the work. Will having the word press app on my new phone make a difference? Probably not – this could just be one of those short lived new year resolution type things.
At least it is easy to use – even in my tired hungover state.
A Starry Night from Torchbox on Vimeo.
I tried this recipe but it wasn’t quite right, so here’s an amended version that’s just a bit more YUM 
After the failure of Brew#4 back in July, finally got the courage up to do a brew for our (lucky) visitors over Christmas.
It’s a standard stock bitter recipe from Jim’s Beer Kit with the addition 15g of Goldings hops for a nice floral hoppy aroma. For brew fans, here’s details of the recipe / process: Brew notes 4 Dec 2010. It comes in at a mellow 1.320 OG:
Hydrometer for Brew#5
Some photos from our recent trip to the Red Sea aboard Blue Horizon on the Project Shark itinerary.
Full set on Flickr
Some photos from a trip to Frigiliana, Andalucia with forays to Sevilla and Granda; the full set is on Flickr.
After the pleasant Brew#3 I tried another run with almost the same recipe. Got the yeast and malt from @jwebster (at a bargain price!). Unfortunately something happened during fermentation and the beer got a weird metallic aftertaste that Martin thought was probably acetobacter infection from the fermenting bin. Shame as it was my first brew with the King Keg, and the clarity and head of the beer were perfect! This was also my first brew done in an evening after work – 6 hours from start to finish.
Brew#4 brew notes for reference.
Can’t remember too much about this one other than it got drunk extremely quickly, hence brew#4 happening so soon after. My last brew using bottles.
Took some pics of the Heath Robinson set I have, using a cool box to store the hot liquor for sparging (English translation: hot water for rinsing the barley sugars from the malt), and an old boiler for mashing (mixing the barley with warm water to release sugar) and boiling.
