General Brew Update: Boxshed Autumn Ale and Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

Just a quick update of various movements of beers between different buckets, kegs and bottles. It may not look much but then you didn’t have to clean the stone out of the bottles and kegs with a pipe brush and a hosepipe… The Boxshed Top Secret Autumn Ale finished secondary fermentation, dropping nice and clear. [...]

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Brewday Update #3: Top Secret Autumn Ale

Nothing much to report before the weekend, when we’ll be checking the hops in the makeshift loft ‘oast’ to make sure they’re all fully dried. That’ll mean bagging them up and freezing them until a suitable brewday comes around. We still haven’t invested in a vacuum sealer, so it’s just a matter of stuffing ziplocks [...]

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Update #1: Boxshed Seasonal Stout

Well the fermentation for my dry stout was rapid and impressive to watch. This is only the second time I’ve ever invested the extra money and effort to get hold of the most appropriate liquid yeast rather than just shoving in S-04, US-05, Gervin or Nottingham dried yeasts, and I really don’t know why! Last [...]

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